Category: Author: Scott Cytacki
Recently we found that our Lab framework caused the JavascriptCore of Safari 5.1 to crash. Safari 5.1 is the latest version available for OS X 10.6. If you have OS X 10.7 or 10.8, then you have Safari 6 which doesn’t have this problem. Too long; didn’t read solution: do not name your getters the […]
I wanted to see if we could roughly log how long users are spending waiting for learner data uploads. The more accurate way to do this is on the client side. However I wanted to try it on the server side so it could be applied in many cases without needing instrumented clients that send […]
[Editor’s note: Vaibhav Ahlawat was a Google Summer of Code 2012 student at the Concord Consortium.] At any time, the Concord Consortium runs a number of small research projects and large scale-up projects, but in the past we built each system separately and each required a separate login. Want to teach your fourth graders about […]
Developers at the Concord Consortium work on a wide variety of grants, and in the process we create reusable pieces of code. With a little work some of these reusable bits of code can be turned into spin-off projects that have a life of their own. In my opinion these spin-off projects have the best […]
I started thinking about how to more easily specify some of the deeply nested structures we need during testing. First we already have a step for doing this. An example which looks like this: And the following investigations with multiple choices exist: | investigation | activity | section | page | multiple_choices | image_questions | […]