Tuesday, July 28, 2015

TSQLUnit_Job

TSQLUnit_Job
Allows TSQLUnit to run unit tests as a database job (SQL Agent)

I finally released code publicly (yikes!). I doubt anyone will ever see it, let alone use it. However, it still frightens me beyond belief!

Go check it out now on github:
https://github.com/jjerome00/TSQLUnit_Job

It's essentially a wrapper for TSQLUnit that allows unit tests to be run as a database job (SQL Agent), with the results sent as an email (with html formatting). Read more about it on Github.

I wrote it years ago for a situation where we needed to look for common error conditions in a legacy system. We didn't have the resources to fix everything, so I would write a test to look for certain situations. The job would notify me if something came up. It was very useful for planning - if an issue only occurred once every six months, we might apply a different fix instead of re-writing the entire module.

It requires TSQLUnit, and SQL Server (duh).

TSQLUnit_Job

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Simpsonized Family Portraits

I somehow developed a hobby of creating Simpsons pictures for my family.

I have this ongoing hobby of creating Simpsons pictures for myself and family. It started out as a joke, and it just continued from there. I just created a new one the other day, and I thought I should try to keep some sort of a record of some of them.

This pre-dates most social media sites. In fact, the original reason was to make chat icons for my IM client (Pidgin). I suppose as web technology improved and the avatars got bigger, so did the complexity of my alterations. After each one I think it will be the last, only to find myself thinking of new ideas a short time later.

All of these were made using GIMP (for Windows).

Some past versions: