Category Archives: Python

Numbers, database numbers and JavaScript

By | August 2, 2019

Numbers quickly became one of the trickier parts of tracking and calculating mining profit. MySQL offers many different numeric types and I first settled on using DECIMAL for most of my calculations. Some ridiculous values like with 40 significant digits. That worked out fairly well at the start. The cryptocurrency market however was in a… Read More »

Running UI tests in Internet Explorer with Jenkins on AWS

By | August 31, 2015

In the best conditions it can feel difficult to use Selenium WebDriver to run UI tests on Internet Explorer. Running on the same machine you develop on isn’t realistic as WebDriver for IE requires all of the window focus. So you move it into a virtual machine on your box and then find that your… Read More »