taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog

• non-PC devices increasing browser share : .5 - 1.5% of visitors to Warner music sites are now coming from games consoles and smartphones. bad news for Flash sites (via Torrez)
  (tags: flash web browsers via:torrez warner-music os)

• full(4): always full device : ‘Writes to the /dev/full device will fail with an ENOSPC error. This can be used to test how a program handles disk-full errors.’ - that’s nifty. I can’t believe I’m still finding useful new UNIX features after 18 years
  (tags: devices unix linux testing disks errors edge-cases enospc manual-pages)

Tags: browsers, devices, disks, edge-cases, enospc, errors, flash, linux, manual-pages, os, testing, unix, via:torrez, warner-music, web

Here’s a perl script that may prove useful: tap-to-junit-xml…

NAME

tap-to-junit-xml - convert perl-style TAP test output to JUnit-style XML

SYNOPSIS

tap-to-junit-xml "test suite name" [ outputprefix ] < tap_output.log

DESCRIPTION

Parse test suite output in TAP (Test Anything Protocol) format, and produce XML output in a similar format to that produced by the <junit> ant task. This is useful for consumption by continuous-integration systems like Hudson.

Written in perl, requires TAP::Parser and XML::Generator. It’s based on junit_xml.pl by Matisse Enzer, although pretty much entirely rewritten.

Tags: hacks, hudson, junit, perl, scripts, tap, testing, xml

CEAS 2008 is doing another Spam Challenge test of various spam-filters, and as part of this, they need samples of ham mail messages.

As part of the data collection effort, we have set up a website through which it is possible to donate non-sensitive legitimate email, to be used in the evaluation. Any kind of email that the recipient considers legitimate is welcome, including computer generated (non-spam) messages.

After the CEAS evaluation, the benchmark data will be made publicly available to facilitate future reasearch and development in the field of spam prevention.

Here is the collection site; they accept UNIX mbox format, and tar.gz or zip files of same, with an 8MB upload limit.

Tags: anti-spam, ceas, corpora, spam, testing