Red means STOP!

oh! crap. That is my car. Plain and simple, I am going thro' hell with the insurance company right now. Even though the other driver accepted fault that she jumped the red, with the cop on scene, and the incident report clearly says so, the insurance company "respectfully denies liability"!

Now, after being robbed off my transportation vehicle for the next 2-3 weeks, I have to run around for no apparent mistake of mine!

Update [Nov 11, 2007]: The car is all fixed now - and the other driver was declared guilty by the arbitrator. Yay! I got some of my money back. But, nothing to replace all the turmoil we went through without a car for a month and a half.

Smoking, a nasty habit - takes away the best from you

Prologue

I took a jogging class this semester at De Anza College, to kick start my healthy living schedule. The assignment paper was to write something health related, something we like and are passionate about. And here it goes:

My first interview - TestGen4Web

Alright, not as big deal as it sounds, Alan decided to ask me a few questions about my experience during my project TestGen4Web,

Before boring you much, here is the link on spikedevnews.

About TestGen4Web:

I am always big on automation, call my lazy, but I hate doing repetitive jobs! Once firefox came out, and was seeing all these wonderful extensions, the idea of TG4W struck me. All I wanted to do was record all the my actions on the browser, and be able to replay them back.

The idea extended to creating automated scripts (HttpUnit, HTMLUnit, php-simpletest) using the recorded actions for nightly testing. Since my company SpikeSource is big on testing and automation, this was a easy business goal too!

After 1 year of successful deployment, here I am the proud owner of TestGen4Web with more than 30,000 downloads. If you are interested, you can download it from dev.spikesource.com or addons.mozilla.org.

I had a lot of help from some of the developers in Europe, and our inhouse UI guru Keisuke Omi .

More information about TestGen4Web on dev.spikesource.com.

Firefox 2 vs IE 7 - anti phishing results

Found this on my Mozilla Developer News feed today.

Out of the 1040 known phishing sites tested, Firefox came on top of IE with better results

Mode	Sites Blocked	% Blocked
Firefox 2 Local List	820	78.85%
Firefox 2 Ask Google	848	81.54%
IE7 Auto Check OFF	16	1.54%
IE7 Auto Check ON	690	66.35%

The text from the post here

As part of our ongoing commitment to security analysis and testing we engaged SmartWare to test the effectiveness of our Phishing Protection feature. Firefox 2 Phishing Protection and IE 7 Phishing Filter were tested using know phishing sites as evaluated by the community at PhishTank. We picked PhishTank as a data source because it is completely independent of the feeds that we use to create the URL block lists. Since IE might either warn or block, either result was counted as a block for the purpose of this test. To make the test as fair as possible we counted only URL test cases where both IE and Firefox were tested within a 15 minute window and switched the order of which browser was tested first. The results are posted here.

More links:

Detailed Test Results

Details on how the test was done

GOT FIREFOX 2 ? NO? GET IT NOW www.getfirefox.com

getting ctrl-forward/backward working on cygwin and sles

I am used to jumping forward and backward a word on the console while typing a command. As the command gets bigger, moving around the command to change things get tougher if you cannot move one word at a time.

I am working on windows cygwin, and i use the cygwin sshd service to give me ssh access to the windows machine, so that i can work from a familiar linux environment! Now cygwin did not allow me to use the ctrl-left arrow and ctrl-right arrow to move around the command.

Here is the solution: Add the following to you ~/.inputrc file

"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word

And you should be able to jump words!