Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

Feedback like this makes me want to spend even more of my time writing the Watir Book and giving it away for free*.

Thanks for wasting a bunch of my time. Next time, before you publish something you might want to check that it works. I’ve spent 5 hours trying to get this shit to run and I can’t get the dev kit (ruby dk.rb install) to install. A search indicates that I’m not the only one having this issue. WHat a BUSH operation: from Ruby to Watir to YOU.

Please: take your page down — stop wasting peoples’ time.

On your BEST DAY, you’re an IDIOT.

* I am selling the book, but all content is available on GitHub for free. I have spent hundreds of hours on the book so far, and I have earned about $200. Do the math.

Update: I have replied after I updated the instructions.

Hi,

Thanks for the kind words. Since you have asked so nicely, I have just spent another afternoon and evening away from my family, updating instructions on how to install Watir:

https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/watirbook/blob/master/installation/windows.md

I did it just for you, for free of course, as always. Please notice new chapter, DevKit.

Regards,

Željko

I have read Commit Volume and Commit Highlights blog post from the Ohloh Blog.

Of course, I have immediately took a look at Watir Code Analysis.

Some of the highlights:

Jarmo Pertman contributed the most in the last year.

Hugh McGowan was pretty busy recently, too.

Bret Pettichord, Paul Rogers and Jarmo Pertman have contributed the most code in the project life time.

For more details, go to Watir Code Analysis page.

Crossposted at watir.com.

I have released Watir Book 0.7.1 in PDF, EPUB (iPad, iPhone, iPod) and MOBI (Kindle) format.

You can download the free version of the book from GitHub for free.

You can buy the whole book via PayPal for 9$. Since the book is not finished yet, you will get all updates to the book for free. If you already bought the book, I have sent it to you via e-mail.

Major changes since the last release:

- driving opera on Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.5

You can see all the changes at GitHub.

Release 0.7 (September 17) had 156 downloads. Not bad.

One person bought the book this month. If two more people buy the book this month, I will buy Mac OS X 10.7 and cover installation for it.