Month: July 2014

Backup black hole

I just had to look for something that got deleted in one of the systems I administrate.  We have daily backups for the last week, weekly backups for the last two month, monthly backups for the last year, and yearly backups for ever.  That seemed like a sensible backup plan.  Unfortunately, the item that I was looking for was deleted created and deleted a couple of weeks ago.  It probably made it into one of the daily backups, but got rotated out.  And it didn’t live long enough to get into the weekly backup.  And now it’s gone.

(It wasn’t anything critical – but it would be awesome to restore it anyway.)

If it was a file, a backup tool like HashBackup could have made sure I’d never lose it.  But it was an item in the database, of which I have a compressed dump.  I’m guessing it’s probably the time to look for a proper database backup tool…

Any recommendations for MySQL?

Mobile Web Monitoring Advanced Scripting (MITE)

Mobile Web Monitoring Advanced Scripting (MITE)

Mobile-Web-Monitoring-MITE

Reduce your test time with MITE test automation. MITE comes with a script recorder that lets you capture each step as you navigate a mobile website. Record once and re-run the script on any device profile, repeating each action and collecting unique mobile Web optimization data for each selected device.

Start recording any time during a session by clicking the record icon on the ribbon. You can add validation checks for every step by simply right-clicking the script and selecting the validation check.

Not only does automated testing save time, but it also guarantees a consistent test methodology. Once you’ve completed mobile Web optimization, upload your script into your own MyKeynote portal and a get a new perspective on the availability of your mobile site with a week of free monitoring.

Fitting and inflating text and videos with responsive web design

There are plenty of solutions around for scaling images. Text and videos on the other hand – not so much. Here are a few that are handy:

  • FitVids.js – a lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
  • FitText.js – a jQuery plugin for inflating web type.
  • Letterings.js – a jQuery plugin for radical web typography.