automate

Automate Deployment for Web Applications?

My team is currently trying to automate the deployment of our .Net and PHP web applications. We want to streamline deployments, and to avoid the hassle and many of the headaches caused by doing it manually. We require a solution that will enable us to: Compile the application Version the application with the SVN version number Backu...

automation: email yourself a file

Hi all, I have a computer at home which I can't access from work. I'd like to be able to view results from work that my home computer produces. The best idea I've come up with is an automated script running on my home computer that emails myself the results (from a text file or stderr/out) when complete. I'm decent with bash (I hav...

Suggestions for automating web application (work flow not testing)

A customer has a legacy web application which is used mainly to capture information. The application has no other interfaces available e.g. web services, API’s. Typical workflow: First form: Select “Action Type” of “Payment” via radio button. Select “Enter” Second form: Select “Payment Type” of “Fine” via radio button. Select “Ent...

How can I automate Winforms in .NET?

I want to get the ControlName of .NET properties in VB6 code, just like described in this article. But unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. I always got 0 for bufferMem. bufferMem = VirtualAllocEx(processHandle, 0, size, MEM_RESERVE Or MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE) If bufferMem = 0 Then Error Err, "V...

How can I automate dpkg/apt-get?

I'm trying to create a script that automatically downloads packages for new servers. However, some things like 'mysql-server' can not installed automatically cause you need to configure them in the ncurses interface first. I've looked through the man pages and can't find anything appropriate. I don't care if I have to upload/edit a con...

Simplifying setup and deployment in c#

I have made an application, which keeps getting updated frequently. So every time a change occurs, i've to include it's fresh builds to the setup and deployment program again and again. Is there any way to simplify the procedure? The files to be added are static in number and exist in a folder. I've heard we can write installer classes i...

Send key strokes to another application C#

I need to automate FileMon.exe to startup with filters, save out the log it generates, and then exit. My solution has been to write an assist application that will do all of this. Which has worked on starting up with specified filters and killing the process, but I still need it to save the log. Do you think it would be silly to send th...

Automate form Submission

How to automate the submission of html form, with random text values using vbscript? ...

automate sftp upload process

I'm looking for a way to upload files/dirs structure from one server to another.. The only way it's possible in my case is SFTP upload, is there any easy way to upload it, using script or something without making archive of files/dirs, I want to recreate on remote server? Thank you! ...

C# Automate PowerPoint Excel

Hey I'm automating PowerPoint and Excel from a C# WinForms application; what I do is read slides from PowerPoint and save them in Excel and then quit both apps. Excel quits successfully but PowerPoints doesn't quits. The problem is when I convert first time it doesnt quits, but when I convert again it does. Here is my code try { Po...

Creating installer wizard for multiple VMs

I need to build an installer that deploys one virtual appliance OVF multiple times into VMware ESX servers, and custom-configures each one. I want the user to provide hostnames, IP addresses, and some other information for each VM and then have the installer tool automatically deploy the VMs without requiring the user to follow a list ...

Macro to enter a find button

I enter a number in the find and select box in excel. On pressing Find All the cell containing the number i want is selected. A macro then selects the next worksheet and colour fills in a row of data and selects cell A1. I press Find all and the number cell is highlighted on this worksheet. A macro then selects the row containg the numb...

How to automate a spreadsheet.

Hello. I am using microsoft excel 2002. What I am wanting to do is say I have some data in column A in sheet 1 and data in column A in sheet 2. What I want to do is when I add data to sheet 1 Column A (lets say some text), I want excel to automatically add a row in sheet 2 column A. So if I have 30 rows in both sheets and I add a strin...

Automating JBoss deployment in Eclipse?

I'm looking for a way to automate deployment of a Flex application(written in Eclipse) EAR to the JBoss application server. That is, when I click 'Build' I want it to also do the deployment. It doesn't have to be a 'hot' deployment, since this is development I don't care about shutting down and restarting the application. ...

How to instantiate (inside a method) different classes that implement the same interface?

Hi all Just wondering if you're able to help me with my problem. This has probably come about by my not knowing the right keywords to search for. This is not homework, just anonymised... I have an interface and a bunch of implementing classes: interface Fruit Banana implements Fruit Apple implements Fruit .... I have a Fruit ...

How to automatically get from daily e-mail attachment to script-processed file?

Background: Every work day I get an e-mail from a vendor who sends me a CSV file as an attachment. The CSV file needs to be converted into HTML and I already have a script that does that. The problem is, I have to manually open my e-mail, save the attachment to my hard drive and then run the script against the saved attachment. I would ...

script to find pagerank of domain

hello, how can I automate finding the pagerank of a domain? I came across this Python script but it no longer works. Seems Google doesn't like people automating this. So, is there an alternative provider of page rank scores? I do not need the exact same result as Google, but something comparable. ...

How do I generate the following matrix and vector from the given input data in MATLAB?

Suppose I have the inputs data = [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] and num = 4. I want to use these to generate the following: i = [1 2 3 4 5 6; 2 3 4 5 6 7; 3 4 5 6 7 8; 4 5 6 7 8 9] o = [5 6 7 8 9 10] which is based on the following logic: length of data = 10 num = 4 10 - 4 = 6 i = [first 6; second 6;... num times] o = [last 6] What is the ...

Tools that automate merging of text files?

I have trouble where, for some reason, SVN would only merge the newly generated template code to implemented code (thus overwriting whatever I had done), but not the other way around. For example, 1) I generate a file called SomeFile.java. I commit this to trunk. I also branch this to feat1/SomeFile.java 2) I work off of the feat1/Som...

automate navigation of a JavaScript powered website

Hello, I need to automate navigation around a JavaScript powered website so I can scrape some content. I came across Chickenfoot, which is a FireFox extension that gives me a programming interface to the browser. Do you know of other solutions? ...