MarkPReynolds.com http://markpreynolds.com ... an Archive of My Miscellaneum Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:43:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Naan http://markpreynolds.com/food-and-wine/naan http://markpreynolds.com/food-and-wine/naan#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:43:43 +0000 Mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=1992 Great naan recipe.  I’m also about to replace my pizza dough recipe with this.

Ingredients from:  http://allrecipes.com/recipe/naan/detail.aspx

Ingredients

  • 1 cus starter
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 TBSP  white sugar
  • 1 TBSP brown sugar
  • 1 TBSP drypmilk
  • 1 TSP salt
  • 2 cups bread flour
  • 1 TBSP minced garlic (optional)
  • 1 TBSP and 2-1/4 teaspoons butter, melted
  • 1 TSP active dry yeast (optional if you are using starter)

Directions

  1. Use bread machine dough cycle
  2. Separate into 3″ balls
  3. Roll flat into 8″ circles
  4. Brush with the melted butter
  5. Cook on grill or skillet until browned and puffy, about 3 minutes.

Original Directions

  1. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Let stand about 10 minutes, until frothy. Stir in sugar, milk, egg, salt, and enough flour to make a soft dough. Knead for 6 to 8 minutes on a lightly floured surface, or until smooth. Place dough in a well oiled bowl, cover with a damp cloth, and set aside to rise. Let it rise 1 hour, until the dough has doubled in volume.
  2. Punch down dough, and knead in garlic. Pinch off small handfuls of dough about the size of a golf ball. Roll into balls, and place on a tray. Cover with a towel, and allow to rise until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
  3. During the second rising, preheat grill to high heat.
  4. At grill side, roll one ball of dough out into a thin circle. Lightly oil grill. Place dough on grill, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, or until puffy and lightly browned. Brush uncooked side with butter, and turn over. Brush cooked side with butter, and cook until browned, another 2 to 4 minutes. Remove from grill, and continue the process until all the naan has been prepared.
]]> http://markpreynolds.com/food-and-wine/naan/feed 0 Herbed French Bread http://markpreynolds.com/food-and-wine/herbed-french-bread http://markpreynolds.com/food-and-wine/herbed-french-bread#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:58:36 +0000 Mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=1903 This recipes uses a higher ratio of starter which I’m finding imparts more flavor and helps rise:

Makes two loaves

* 1 cup bread flour
* 2 TBSP brown sugar
* 2 TSP salt
* 2 TBSP dry milk
* 1 TBSP herbs de provence
* 1 TBSP rosemary
* 2 TBSP olive oil
* 1 cup sourdough starter
* baker’s yeast (optional, depending on the strength of your starter)

Bread machine dough cycle
Rise in warm, moist oven
Bake at 350 convection

]]> http://markpreynolds.com/food-and-wine/herbed-french-bread/feed 0 Film Queue http://markpreynolds.com/movies/film-queue http://markpreynolds.com/movies/film-queue#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:45:11 +0000 Mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=1890 These are the movies in my must see list.  Many will move to my favorite or suspension of belief films posts.

Some sites these are pulled from:

  1. Focus Features
  2. Wikipedia
  3. IMDB
  4. 100-movies-to-see-before-you-die
  5. Empire’s top 500
I would include the AFI list but I believe I’ve seen almost all:  American Film Institute Top 100

 

Here we go:
  1. Rashomon
  2. Army Of Shadows
  3. The Long Goodbye
  4. Sunshine
  5. Out Of Sight
  6. The Lives Of Others
  7. The Last Seduction
  8. American History X
  9. Transformers
  10. Together
  11. Love And Death
  12. Brick
  13. Flesh
  14. Rebel Without A Cause
  15. Into The Wild
  16. Le Doulos
  17. Dead Man’s Shoes
  18. Ten
  19. Atonement
  20. Danger: Diabolik
  21. Electra Glide In Blue
  22. To Have And Have Not
  23. A Man Escaped
  24. Days Of Heave
  25. The Double Life Of Véronique
  26. The Battleship Potemkin
  27. Cross of Iron
  28. Raise the Red Lantern
  29. Spirited Away
  30. My Neighbor Totoro
  31. Tale of Tales
  32. Hedgehog in the Fog
  33. Some Like It Hot
  34. City Lights
  35. Persepolis
  36. Lawrence of Arabi
  37. Triumph of the Will
  38. The Searchers
  39. Once Upon a Time in the West
  40. Picnic at Hanging Rock
  41. Wavelength
  42. Infernal Affairs
  43. The Third Man
  44. Lawrence of Arabia
  45. Brief Encounter
  46. Get Carter
  47. Spirit Of The Beehive
  48. The King Of Comedy
  49. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
  50. The Night Of The Hunter
  51. Three Colours Red
  52. Come And See
  53. La Dolce Vita
  54. On The Waterfront
  55. Kind Hearts And Coronets
  56. The 400 Blows
  57. Andrei Rublev
  58. Heat
  59. Some Like It Hot
  60. Chinatown
  61. The Apartment
  62. Paths Of Glory
  63. Le Samourai
  64. La Haine
  65. Being There
  66. Betty Blue
  67. Badlands
  68. The Innocents
  69. The Red Shoes
  70. Sophie’s Choice
  71. Z
  72. Notorious
  73. Cyrano De Bergerac
  74. The Man Who Would Be King
  75. Harvey
  76. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
  77. A Bout De Souffle
  78. Los Olvidados
  79. Withnail And I
  80. Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
  81. Fitzcarraldo
  82. The Rules Of The Game
  83. Touch Of Evil
  84. La Maman Et La Putain
  85. La Belle Et La Bête
  86. Rocco And His Brothers
  87. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  88. L’Avventura
  89. Solaris
  90. Ran
  91. The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
  92. The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu
  93. The Lady Vanishes
  94. Das Boot
  95. Roman Holiday
  96. M
  97. The Addiction
  98. The Killer
  99. 2 Days In Paris
  100. Cabaret
  101. …

 

]]> http://markpreynolds.com/movies/film-queue/feed 0 Favorite Christmas Films http://markpreynolds.com/movies/favorite-christmas-films http://markpreynolds.com/movies/favorite-christmas-films#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:17:10 +0000 Mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=1886 My all-time favorite holiday movies.  I know I’m missing some classics.  I need to see Miracle and maybe rescreen A Christmas Carol.  These are my current picks.

  1. It’s a Wonderful Life
  2. The Grinch That Stole Christmas
  3. Elf
  4. Love Actually
  5. Christmas Vacation
  6. A Christmas Story
  7. Trading Places
  8. Scrooged
  9. Die Hard
  10. Bad Santa
  11. The Nightmare Before Christmas
]]> http://markpreynolds.com/movies/favorite-christmas-films/feed 0 Excel VBA http://markpreynolds.com/technology/excel-vba http://markpreynolds.com/technology/excel-vba#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:43:09 +0000 Mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=1875 I recently used MS Excel 2010′s Visual Basic for Applications to normalize and automate the reporting of test cases by severity. The purpose of this view is to answer the question, “Of the failed tests reported, how many of the defects are high severity vs. how many are low?” So instead of just seeing just a pass/fail percentage like this:

You could publish the customer impact of the associated defects like this:

HP ALM 11 natively reports test case results and defect results, but not both in one view. If you’d like to see failed tests with their associated, you need a custom SQL query and you’ll end up with very generic tabular data like this:

Sorting and formatting the data was painful.  The following scripts provide automation for most of the steps involved using Excel’s built in VBA macro system.

All we care about is the highest severity level defect linked to each test case.  The others (like the second row above) can be discarded.  (If a test/feature fails on a Show Stopper, we don’t care if there are also typos on it, at least not yet.)  This is the VBA to de-dupe by sev:

'
' Normalize duplicate failed tests
'

' Skip the header row, process non blank rows
' Need to constrain this by an end-of-data function, not an # of rows integer
For i = 2 To 200
    ' Don't process blanks
    If Cells(i, 1).Value <> "" Then
        ' If there is >1 defect logged against the same test
        If Cells(i, 1).Value = Cells(i + 1, 1).Value Then
            ' If the current row has lesser or equal severity defect than the following row, delete the current row
            If Cells(i, 6).Value >= Cells(i + 1, 6).Value Then
                Cells(i, 1).EntireRow.Delete
            ' Otherwise delete the following row
            Else
            Cells(i + 1, 1).EntireRow.Delete
            End If
        ' Reset i to account for the row deleted
        i = i - 1
        End If
    End If
Next i

' Sort by sev
    Columns("F:F").Select
    ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Failed Tests with Severities").sort.SortFields. _
        Clear
    ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Failed Tests with Severities").sort.SortFields. _
        Add Key:=Range("F1"), SortOn:=xlSortOnValues, Order:=xlAscending, _
        DataOption:=xlSortNormal
    With ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Failed Tests with Severities").sort
        .SetRange Range("A2:J96")
        .Header = xlNo
        .MatchCase = False
        .Orientation = xlTopToBottom
        .SortMethod = xlPinYin
        .Apply
    End With

This summarizes the results:

'
' SummaryTable Macro
'
    Range("L2") = "Show Stopper"
    Range("L3") = "High"
    Range("L4") = "Medium"
    Range("L5") = "Low"
    Range("L6") = "Passed"
    Range("L7") = "Blocked"
    Range("M2") = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(Columns(6), "1-Show Stopper")
    Range("M3") = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(Columns(6), "3-High")
    Range("M4") = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(Columns(6), "4-Medium")
    Range("M5") = WorksheetFunction.CountIf(Columns(6), "5-Low")
    Range("M6") = 1
    Range("M7") = 1

And this graphs them:
‘
‘ Graph Macro
‘

Range(“L2:M7″).Select
ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddChart.Select
ActiveChart.ChartType = xlPieExploded
ActiveChart.SetSourceData Source:=Range( _
“‘Failed Tests with Severities’!$L$2:$M$7″)
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Select
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).ApplyDataLabels
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).DataLabels.Select
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).HasLeaderLines = False
Selection.Position = xlLabelPositionOutsideEnd

ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Select
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Explosion = 0
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Explosion = 1
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(1).Select
Selection.Explosion = 15
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.ObjectThemeColor = msoThemeColorText1
.ForeColor.TintAndShade = 0
.ForeColor.Brightness = 0
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(192, 0, 0)
.Transparency = 0
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(2).Select
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(192, 0, 0)
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0)
.Transparency = 0
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(3).Select
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0)
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 117, 117)
.Transparency = 0
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(4).Select
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 117, 117)
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 167, 167)
.Transparency = 0
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(5).Select
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 167, 167)
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 176, 80)
.Transparency = 0
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(6).Select
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 176, 80)
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 322
With Selection.Format.Fill
.Visible = msoTrue
.ForeColor.ObjectThemeColor = msoThemeColorText1
.ForeColor.TintAndShade = 0
.ForeColor.Brightness = 0
.Transparency = 0
.Solid
End With
ActiveChart.Legend.Select
Selection.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Size = 12
ActiveChart.ChartArea.Select
ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).DataLabels.Select
Selection.Format.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Size = 12


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