Since I develop my blog, naturally i get interested around formatting its contents.

Problem being explicit

Explicit content differs in a way that impacts readers psyche. If not changing his world views, then changing subjective opinion. Not every reader is ready for this, not everyone wants to see it. Thats why warnings, discretion, content notices are needed. 

Another problem is that rating should not depend on viewers age. Filtering if it exists, should be contextual, based on county legislation like COPPA. Ofcourse, if warnings are present, then automatic censorship by browser or search engines is possible. Editors should be ready for this, since this is totally voluntary.

Its clear that censorship of content is targeted for young audience, but "children" and "rate of violence" might greatly vary. You don't expect forbidding playing Mario games to everyone who is not yet 21 years old just because hero jumps on turtles, crushing them, still PETA may find that you do.

Existing standards

1. SafeSurf - dead

2. RTA - probably most used standard on modern adult-websites. It uses either header

Or meta data on page:

Or forcing headers for all resources through apache's .htaccess

3. ICRA - got old, used page context and used rather large table of ICRA and RSAC codes.

4. PICS - migrated into W3C POWDER. Last one is based on rdf, which means its hard to manage and understand

Thats it! Nothing real, no microformat for average webmaster. What we need is a level-based rating of any content on the web, like MPAA does for movies or ESRB and PEGI do for games.

New microformat / xrate 1.0

I see proper way to format this data very clearly - author just has to mark any html element with attribute, based on rating. HTML5 gives attribute data- in free use, so i suggest using namespace xrate with integer values (0-100) which represent danger to viewer (the higher - the bigger), which will also ease filtering. Note that its NOT VIEWER'S AGE. 

For simplicity, you can use general param, let say data-xrate="20", but its more semantically proper to choose its area:

Sex(xrate-sex)

Obviously sex and nudity are separate things. Naturally they mostly do follow each other, but paintings or chilling nude old dudes mostly don't carry as much erotic energy.

Romance. Kissing, wish	Erotica. Breasts, will	Porn. Genitals, action
0-30	30-70	70-100

Nudity(xrate-nude)

Dressed	Partially nude	Fully nude
0-30	30-70	70-100

Violence(xrate-violence)

Violence also differs

fantasy heroes	fighting, wounds	blood, dead bodies, grevious wounds
0-30	30-70	70-100

Antisocial behaviour (xrate-asocial)

What does scare most parents is not someone swearing, viewing erotic movies or violent games. Parents are afraid of spiritual fall of their kids which begins with misunderstanding and indifference. This attribute should fight against smoking, drinking, drugs, prostitution, so that it wouldn't be considered ok.

Obscene language (xrate-lang)

Language directly influences thinking. Obscene language cannot be limited with usual word filters, because its an emotion, which can take form of drawings or hand gestures.

Analysis

Filtering html if these attributes were added is easy. For example if i have paragraph with data-xrate-asocial=30.. then i can easily find it with jquery, and based on user's preferences either hide, replace, increase opacity or add warning to it.

Styling is a bit more complex, since there is only comparison css selector. But you can use fixed values, like 30 and 70 - this way you have fixed diapasons:

Social rating

Obviously xrate- is subjective rating that author has decided upon. But if you have complex content and lots of viewers, then members can rate it themselves. Voting is like usual karma, except that you dont vote on agreeing/disagreeing with author, but on how dangerous content is.

Its a microformat. Its not complex enought to warn about scary part of the movie at some defined point, it also doesnt have any auditor or certificate of proof, and its not centralized - one user might think that bible has danger rating 10, another - that 100. Hope its enough.

Skyrim is already the fifth role playing game in epic TES series from Bethesda. For those who are not familiar withit, may I remind you that we are on a planet called Nirn with main continent Tamriel with lots of animals, races, languages; at a time, pretty much similar to the end of Roman empire and the beginning of early medieval ages. But first, a bit of cosmogony..

A little history

First, there was order (Anu) and chaos (Sithis), which gave birth to eight high spirits (aedra) and lots of low spirits (daedra). First of them (Akatosh) created time, while Lorkhan created this planet and binded himself to it through his heart as an active Red mountain vulcano in the Morrowind. That is how age of dawn ended and new time, consisting of three epochs began (that lasted 3 thousand, 900 and 430 years respectively). 

One of most important changes in this world history becomes the emergence of human empire with the capital in Cyrodiil at the end of second epoch by first imperor Tiber Septim, which later becomes worshipped equally as other aedra, with new name Talos - spirit of war and rule.

First two games (Arena and Daggerfall) were done in pseudo 3D with randomly generated content and are not worth much attention. First breakthrough was Morrowind, that stunning graphics, thought through world and innovative location loading in the background. In Morrowind main story ended up with main battle of hero with nemesis partially immortal Dagoth Ur, that kept living by gaining energy from vulcano's heart.

The plot of Oblivion takes place several years after Morrowind, at the end of third era, when cultists of Mythic Dawn kill the emperor and most of his heirs, opening gates to lower worlds. Protagonist fights with this cult and daedra-princes. As a result Mehrunes Dagon is banished by new incarnation of Akatosh and the gates of oblivion are closed.

Google, just like Twitter, allows developers to use OAuth 1.0 to authenticate and authorize data use for our application , providing defined data using API, and since Google is not as centralized as Facebook is, it has lots of independent services like Youtube and Picasa, meaning that each one has its own data structure. In general this authorization (keywords here - OpenID, AuthSub, Federated Login) and data access (JSON, XML, REST, Atom) are implemented as Google Data Protocol.

Lets use Zend Framework

2. Set up two modules from Zend Framework - Crypt and Oauth.

3. Create settings where we set URLs to auth services

As I wrote before, testing web applications should be handled the right way, considering all kinds of platform varieties. Selenium Grid works on different OS, but not always do you have a separate machine for every OS. Thats where virtualization software comes in - Virtual PC, Parallels and in particular, VMware Workstation 7 (btw. some company got a bonus of 9 billion when it aquired VMWare).

Tenth's Mac OS has been released since 2000 just like Android with code names for microversions, except that instead of sweet candies it used cat familiae - cheetah, puma, jaguar, panther, leopard and now tiger is expected by the summer. Installing it on Intel CPU is done with modified boot-loader (because it uses some sort of digital verification)

• OS distribution disc (in iso, you can convert dmg to it using PowerISO)
• 17-mb darwin_snow.iso loader
• VMware Workstation 7
  

So you need to create a virtual machine..

In settings enable USB support, and increase memory from 256 mb. Now you need to edit generated vmx-file in order to pass "Invalid front-side bus frequency 6600000 Hz" error during load — change system name from guestOS to "darwin10" (or darwin, darwin-64). Insert loader in virtual CD and run.

Loader is suggesting inserting DVD, since HDD is empty, everything is good. So we press CD icon below, change disc to installation DVD, confirm with C and right away F8 - now we can enter in verbose mode by entering "-v" to see load progress.

After GUI is loaded, we need to format virtual HDD; OS will take up to 10 GB of space.

Now if you need to increase screen size from 1024x768 to something bigger, open in terminal or in TextEdit file at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist and change is as admin by adding

If you happen to have missing bridged internet connection, edit your vmx file and add

To enable sound drivers, use file below

Everyone keeps talking about unit-testing and TDD, but to change paradigm of thinking thoroughly along with megabytes of code you do not have enough will, money and time? System blackbox testing with Selenium Server (RC) could help you. It means that we are not testing every single class from within, how unit-tests and white-box techniques do, but instead we only test UI that end-user sees

In my opinion it is better to start integrating automatic QA in company from this kind of testing, simply because it can be first signal that something went wrong before deployment with less money and effort spent on writing all of the tests (compare results with unit-tests where they tell you wether everything is done correctly)

If you have already seen Mozilla Firefox plugin that allows to record all of your actions, creating macro-command list in the process, then you are in the right place, because that is Selenium IDE, which by now can transform commends to ruby, python, java, perl, c# and PHP code. And here is why..

After creating macro, copying php code (see Options → Clipboard format) and making php-file, you can see that for test to run, it needs

1. PHPUnit and local php installed
   
2. Selenium Server - a proxy written in java, that runs browser and executes your code
3. PHPStorm or console that runs phpunit with relevant params
   

Making cases

By extending PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase, we get some of the parent methods that customize functionality in setUp(), in particular

• Browser - firefox, googlechrome, iexplore, safari, konqueror
  $this->setBrowser("*chrome");
  
  
• Pause between commands
  $this->setSleep(1);
  

But that is not enough, since tests can be commited to SVN for other develpers, who can have different URLs, login/password for testing or even DB access for graybox testing.. Thats why before running tests, you can include bootstrap files. XML-file for PHPUnit is quite empty, and simply links to php file for each developer

You can see settings for PHPUnit-tests on the same image. Not its enough to click Run and enjoy the show in browser

Now lets talk about test grouping.. If test case is elementary set of instructions for a single page (or at least I tend to think about it that way), then test suite is more global grouping, intented to test some process. For example..

Lets say we have an order made by client, which is processed by priviledged user. To test entire flow with status changes, we group single test methods into groups.

Unfortunately, Selenium does not have «Export Test Suite As → PHP» support yet, thats why we have to create inner methods, that would be used in one test "case" (which is actually more like test suite). Obvious disadvantage is that this grouping is usually rather long (several minutes), and its crash does not really tell where it fell.

Another problem with test sets, is data that gets generated as a result. If you are running user registration test, then you probably have validation somewhere in the middle for existing email or login. Naturally that after one successful registration, the second will fail. Adding user deletion in the end is a bad idea. So as an exit strategy you either need a web-access to manual user deletion from adminpanel, or direct access to DB (hello graybox testing with DB-structure dependency)

If you go deeper into documentation, you may come across PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite wich as I understood, only groups tests by topics, like «all tests with orders» or «all tests with payment» are successfull, without taking process into consideration.

More to come

Althoug not everything is white as i described, because writing test for Selenium is not easy as you may think, because you have to coupe with DOM changing, popup windows, periodic ajax. There are tonns of obstacles like capthas and input checks, social network authorizations, plugins like flash and java, scroll wheel.

Some things can be avoided by waitForElementPresent

Another, more company related problem is that writing tests should be obligatory, because if you change dom in templates or business logic and forget about running and changing tests, they will become obsolete. And since running all tests with Selenium Server may take minutes, developers may postpone it and commit changes before the results. Thats why you may need Selenium Grid, that runs tests in parallel with different browsers and platforms, and you may need Hudson to run the tests all the time, to monitor project health as continuous integration.

To conclude, I'd like to remind you about reasonability. You can't test everything, and even if you do, it will cost much more to sustain all of the tests, thats why you need to start with most important and complex functionality — especially where money and payment is involved.