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For the longest time, I've wanted to be able to bookmark the magit buffers of my various git projects. It's really useful to be able to jump to the top level view and get a git status summary of what I was in the middle of. However, I wasn't able to use Emacs's built in bookmarks for this, because those require a file reference to jump to, and the magit buffers were not file based. Enter Projectile :)

I recently became the maintainer of Selenium::Remote::Driver, which is the Perl bindings to the Selenium Webdriver API. I just released version 0.18 to the CPAN and hopefully got the tests passing again :D.

I started seeing the following timer error in mooz's js2-mode, the actively maintained fork of Steve Yegge's js2-mode. This would happen whenever I changed any javascript code, and the mode wouldn't rehighlight the new code. Invoking js2-mode interactively would properly apply the syntax highlighting, but then the next change to the file would cause the error again.

One of my work assignments depended on an install of SQL Server 2008 R2. I needed to use the sa account to log in and do some database-y things during latter parts of the install, but I didn't know the password for the sa account, and I didn't know how to find it or change it. According to Google, SQL Server Management Studio is what I need to do admin things. At this point, I found out that the sa account was actually disabled by default in new installations of 08 R2 as a security precaution, so my task was to get admin access, enable the sa account, and change its password.

I woke up this morning and went to run some Webdriver jobs in Chrome, but for some reason they weren't working! The browser would start up, and then it would die, complaining about an unknown command called 'WaitForAllTabsToStopLoading'