Where is Darran?

Friendly Austin was started almost a year ago and we recently hit 1200 members.

Some of the events I’ve particularly enjoyed are Movies in the Park, Hiking in the Greenbelt, and dancing and listening to swing and Motown music.

The Meetup group has sometimes been a challenge, but I am thankful for all of the experiences that we’ve shared together.

I have posted a few events on It’s Time Texas and am excited to see what ITT has planned for the rest of 2016.

You can join Friendly Austin at this link!

Thank you!

We’re about 8 months in and this week we hit 900 members.

We are reaching a critical mass of 1000. Now we’re working on planning the rest of 2016 and enhancing our social media on Facebook and Twitter.

Lastly, Friendly Austin is now working with It’s Time Texas and is excited about what they have planned for 2016.

Thank you! <3

Click this link to join Friendly Austin!

After starting about 4 months ago, last week we hit 500 members.

We are reaching a critical mass of 1000. Now I’m working on planning the rest of the year and getting the group setup on Facebook and Twitter.

All I have to say is thank you! <3

After being an event organizer for a few Meetup groups in Austin, I decided to start my own! It’s mainly focused on outdoor activities and music events, but will probably end up having a little bit of everything!

Please join if you’d like!

Yesterday my first merge request to the Ubuntu project was approved! It is small, but feels great. It’s an automated test that tests the deletion of a playlist from the Ubuntu Music App.

Thank you to everyone who has written and published tutorials on how to get up to speed with Ubuntu QA and automating with Autopilot! The Orange Notebook was a great resource. Thank you to everyone who helped me with fix the formatting issues I had. Working on a project this size, I now realize how important it is to keep code structure and syntax consistent.

Link to the commit on launchpad:

https://code.launchpad.net/~darran-kelinske/music-app/lp_bug_1428454/+merge/253566

There are changes in Autopilot and with these changes you will need to upgrade your test scripts.

Issue 1: AttributeError: type object ‘AutopilotTestCase’ has no attribute ‘register_known_application’

To fix this we need to modify the test script from something like this:

from autopilot.testcase import AutopilotTestCase
from autopilot.matchers import Eventually
from testtools.matchers import Equals, Contains

#register firefox as an application so we can call it
AutopilotTestCase.register_known_application("Firefox", "firefox.desktop", "firefox")

class FirefoxTests(AutopilotTestCase):

def setUp(self):
super(FirefoxTests, self).setUp()
self.app = self.start_app_window("Firefox")

To this:

from autopilot.testcase import AutopilotTestCase
from autopilot.matchers import Eventually
from testtools.matchers import Equals, Contains

class FirefoxTests(AutopilotTestCase):

def setUp(self):
super(FirefoxTests, self).setUp()

       if "Firefox" not in self.process_manager.KNOWN_APPS:
            self.process_manager.register_known_application("Firefox", "firefox.desktop", "firefox")

#make sure firefox is up and loaded
self.app.set_focus()
self.assertTrue(self.app.is_focused)

Issue 2: AttributeError: ‘FirefoxTests’ object has no attribute ‘start_app_window’

We need to change something like the following:

self.app = self.start_app_window("Firefox")

to

self.app = self.process_manager.start_app_window("Firefox")

I had an issue where the EA4500 was not transmitting Wireless N rates. I did some searching and found that when you disable WMM the router will only transmit at Wireless B/G rates on 2.4 GHz.

Just re-enable WMM and you will get your Wireless-N speeds back.

To re-enable Wireless-N rates:

Login to your Administration page (typically at 192.168.0.1)

Click “Media Prioritization”

Click Settings

Finally, enable “WMM Support”

While running the latest version of Traktor and OS X I noticed that Traktor would freeze when I plugged in the S2.

This might be obvious for some, but I had forgotten that the S2 contains an update utility that updates the firmware on the S2. After updating the firmware all my freezing issues went away!

Do the following to update the firmware on the S2.

Plug in the S2 to your PC using USB. Turn the S2 on by pressing the power button on the back of the S2.

Open the Device Updater using Spotlight (command + spacebar).

The Device Updater will inspect the version of firmware running on the S2 and the latest firmware available for the S2.

Update the firmware and the freezing should be fixed!