For the last week or two I’ve been busy at my day job with some less technical things: iteration planning, specification clarification, architecture documentation and other miscellaneous putting-out-of-fires. The net result has been a desire to find some other outlet for my technical creative impulses 
Enter HtmlUnit.
I’ve been a committer to the project for a while, but have struggled to find time to work on it. These past couple of weeks, however, have seen a flurry of activity on my part, mainly fixing bugs. One interesting bug involves supporting the jQuery JavaScript library. We already run a portion of the Prototype unit tests as part of HtmlUnit’s own unit testing — the goal being to eventually be able to “certify” certain versions of HtmlUnit as being compatible with certain other versions of Prototype. I’m working towards doing the same for jQuery, and seem to be getting there slowly but surely.
In other news, it looks like I may soon have a second outlet for my “creative impulses”…
