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What’s coming up the rest of the month?

The major event is clearly UXMAD.

This is a premier user experience conference for a decidedly less than premium price. Thursday the 19th there will be hands-on workshops; Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st an impressive roster of speakers. This embarrassment of intellectual, artistic, and professional riches can be studied on the conference’s schedule page. (Protip: I’m told that the speakers will be tweeting $50 discount codes.)

The other side of it, which is always—admit it—the most fun, is the set of top-shelf afterparties: the planned and sponsored, and the unplanned and anarchic. Madison’s a hell of a town for that, of course. Case in point: Friday night, Bendyworks and ...continue reading

Version 1.1 of Bwoken has just been released! This feature release includes the ability to run UIAutomation tests on a device rather than the simulator, in addition to a number of internal improvements to Bwoken.

Developers we come across have always asked: How do I run UIAutomation tests on my device?

Now with Bwoken we can respond: Simple, plug your device in, and run rake.

Bwoken detects your device, and compiles your project using the correct SDK. Then it tells instruments to run on your device instead of the simulator, and reports the results as normal. To revert back to using the simulator, unplug your device and run rake again.

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Bwoken is a UIAutomation test runner for both iPhone and iPad, which lets you write your tests in CoffeeScript, then run them in bulk from the command line. Watch the video, then head on over to its homepage!