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Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

by raddevus

Steps for building a device you can add to your existing garage door, which implements an atmega328, bluetooth (hc-05) and relay module which will allow you to open your garage door from any paired Android device.

5 More Attributes of Highly Effective Programmers

by Ben M Watson

Five more attributes of highly effective programmers

Hacking Alexa's Voice Recordings

by Michael Haephrati

Now you can store your own voice recordings kept by Amazon but not made available to customers

Using C# .NET User Defined Functions (UDF) in Excel

by Adam Tibi

Exposing .NET functions to be consumed as Excel functions, otherwise known in Excel as "User Defined Functions" . Those .NET exposed functions can be easily used from Excel's cells. This article presents two ways to achieve this and the pros and cons of each.

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Atata - C# Web Test Automation Framework

by Yevgeniy Shunevych

An introduction to Atata C#/.NET web UI test automation full-featured framework based on Selenium WebDriver

Azure Automation Runbooks in 2024

by Wessel Beulink

Azure spearheads cloud evolution, Azure Automation Runbooks manage hybrid/SOC environments effectively

Running Automation Tests At Scale Using Playwright

by Suhagkumar Vamja

In this article, we learn about Playwright, how it works, and why it is a good choice for web automation with Java.

Running Automation Tests at Scale Using Cypress

by Suhagkumar Vamja

In this article, we will learn how to set up Cypress and run the web automation tests (in series and parallel) on the LambdaTest cloud grid.

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Never Buy A Garage Door Remote Again: Open Your Door With Your Android Phone (via Bluetooth)

27 Jul 2016 by raddevus

Steps for building a device you can add to your existing garage door, which implements an atmega328, bluetooth (hc-05) and relay module which will allow you to open your garage door from any paired Android device.

Hacking Alexa's Voice Recordings

7 Nov 2019 by Michael Haephrati

Now you can store your own voice recordings kept by Amazon but not made available to customers

Using C# .NET User Defined Functions (UDF) in Excel

13 Jun 2013 by Adam Tibi

Exposing .NET functions to be consumed as Excel functions, otherwise known in Excel as "User Defined Functions" . Those .NET exposed functions can be easily used from Excel's cells. This article presents two ways to achieve this and the pros and cons of each.

Automating the SQL Database Mirroring Setup

30 Dec 2019 by Dathuraj Pasarge

Database mirroring setup without any DBA effort - on every new database creation

Selenium Series Part 4: Killing Laying Around Browser Processes for More Consistent Selenium Testing

25 Jun 2018 by Sean Rand

This is an article to help you clean up browser processes during automated Selenium testing.

Scheduling the Jenkins Job with CRON

6 May 2018 by Iqra Ali

CRON jobs and configuring Jenkins jobs using different CRON options

The Six Hat Send Mail Class (Easily Send Email Using VBA)

2 Jul 2016 by Six Hat Solutions

Easily Send Emails From Your Microsoft Applications Using VBA and the SendGrid API

Posting Externally Derived TFS Test Case Results

28 Jul 2017 by ergohack

This is an article on how to post automated test results to Microsoft's Test Manager Infrastructure from external sources (e.g. your home grown automated test harness).

Using Template Bookmarks for Automating Microsoft Word Reports

31 May 2018 by Darryl Bryk

A C# method is discussed for using bookmarks in Microsoft Word templates to automate reports.

Test Automation in Angular Applications

29 Dec 2017 by Nikola Breznjak

Intro to test automation in Angular apps, and some basic theory concepts about testing

How to Create a Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI-CD) Solution for a Docker Project

31 Mar 2021 by Frank Boucher

How to build a continuous integration and continuous deployment solution for Docker

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Chromium Browser automated install/update via PowerShell

19 Jul 2012 by Mikhail-T

Powershell script that automatically installs and updates your Chromium browser in Windows

Auto Generating Properties for InfoPath 2007

8 Oct 2013 by Dragonranger

A way to add automatic properties to the FormCode for InfoPath 2007.

"Continuous Integration" - Should I Go For It?

19 Mar 2016 by Tushar Tale

A decisive view whether we should adopt continuous integration

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continuous-delivery

How to generate Page Object Pattern Classes (SeleniumQA) to test Web/Mobile Pages

6 Sep 2018 by Desmond McCarter

A utility for generating Selenium based Page Object Pattern classes used in web/mobile test cases.

Running Automation Tests at Scale Using Cypress

20 Nov 2023 by Suhagkumar Vamja

In this article, we will learn how to set up Cypress and run the web automation tests (in series and parallel) on the LambdaTest cloud grid.

Running Automation Tests At Scale Using Playwright

22 Nov 2023 by Suhagkumar Vamja

In this article, we learn about Playwright, how it works, and why it is a good choice for web automation with Java.

All About Test Part 2 - Testing Stateful System

21 Jan 2013 by Simeon Sheye

How to manage state and simulate behavior against the system under test.

Let's customize Google to show previous searches

8 May 2012 by HiteshSharma

The application adds a custom button and a few anchor elements on Google page which link to a previously searched text on google.

Atata - C# Web Test Automation Framework

23 Apr 2024 by Yevgeniy Shunevych

An introduction to Atata C#/.NET web UI test automation full-featured framework based on Selenium WebDriver

"Automation"- an old but reborn disruption

18 Mar 2016 by Tushar Tale

Focuses on automation which is a reborn disruption and basic decision methodology for automation candidature.

Automated penetration testing in the Microsoft stack with OWASP ZAP

27 Jan 2014 by GustavoMartins

Automate your penetration testing using the pentest tool ZAP and the

Research on Methods for Counting the Number of People in a Video Stream Using OpenCV

19 Oct 2018 by Apriorit Inc, KonstantinovSlava

Two ways of performing object recognition using OpenCV and comparing them to each other. Both approaches have their own pros and cons. This comparison will help to choose the best one for your task.

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Zukuno | A personal assistant for the IoT

7 Aug 2016 by Mitchell J.

Learn how to setup a Raspberry Pi as a wifi router, track public transport with GTFS, install & use Django, and combine CMUsphinx, Webview, and Microsoft's speech API in an Android app. We'll also control Sonos speakers, build a security camera, and consume some API's (including the CodeProject API)

Automate multiple Excel instances

25 Nov 2016 by JamesFaix

.NET library to access to any running instance of Excel.

Tips to fix CodedUI tests

24 Feb 2015 by JIANGWilliam

This article introduces some techniques to fix CoedUI automation tests, including a few generic approaches instead of much more specific functional definitions to handle problematic components such as Dialog and Table, SQL template to handle complex queries that generate test data and JavaScript bas

IoT Device for Predicting and Identifying Problems in a Datacenter

25 Jul 2021 by André Marcos (Advisor), Luciano Santos de Jesus

Automation with Arduino Prototype for an Alarm Device based on Audiometric Sounds Pattern Control

Writing CI Pipeline using GitHub Actions to Build C++ Project

20 Apr 2020 by Iqra Ali

This article gives a practical overview of using GitHub Actions to automate a CI pipeline to build C++ project which is configured using CMake.

Desktop Automation and Real time Example

22 Mar 2016 by Chandrasekhar Telkapalli

Understanding the User Business Process,analysis on benefits of doing Automation and best approaches & practices in designing the solution

Joomla Remote SQL Call

28 Aug 2015 by FrankNight

This is a Joomla component that allows remote SQL execution using XML message over HTTP.

Automating deployment for MS Access Application

30 Jun 2016 by Mani Murthy

Using .Net application to automate the MS-Access Application

Automating Task Creation in Team Foundation Server with PowerShell

14 Aug 2012 by Gary Stafford

Automate the creation of Task-type Work Items in TFS using PowerShell

Word-like Editor and RTF Text Manipulation with Telerik RadRichTextEditor

21 Nov 2017 by Emiliano Musso

Create a Word-like software using RadRichTextEditor and C#

Automating Code Deployment with Github and Azure

6 May 2018 by Majdi Saibi

Automating code deployment with Github and Azure

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Automating the Web with Selenium and Python

17 Apr 2019 by WasiUllah Khan

Automated Pakwheels parsing with Selenium and Python

Home-made Apache log analyzer to count hits

10 Jan 2012 by Gabor Szabo (szabgab)

How to report the number of hits from localhost and elsewhere based on the Apache log file.