Archive for October 2009

Popcorn – Data Driven Testing with JSON

October 26, 2009

Are you looking for a quick, easy and flexible way to create JSON objects to test your JSON service? Or maybe a tool to mock server responses to test some JavaScript browser code? If so, you might be interested in Popcorn.

Popcorn is a JavaScript embedded DSL design to generate any kind of JSON object. It comes with a basic set of generators for most common JavaScript types, and combinators to build new generators for any kind of data. With Popcorn thousands of test cases can be expressed in just few lines of code, which makes it a great driver for data-driven test engines. Let’s go for a quick tour.

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Categories: JavaScript, Tools
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Multi-dimensional data visualization

October 1, 2009

Way back in grad school, I was working on a project involving Auralization. The key idea was that your ear can process multi-dimensional data (pitch, volume, instruments, silence, tempo, etc) way better than your eyes can (try closing your eyes and listening to a Bach Fugue). So back then, we tried to take these types of data (stocks, sales reports, expenses, etc) and created MIDI files out of it to understand trends. Ever since I saw the Hans Rosling’s TED Talk I’ve wondered the applicability of this type of visualization on something other than economics.

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Categories: Announcements, CouchDB, pcapr, Ruby, Tools, UI
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