ull time to working on their paintings. Some are world travelers who left their well-paying gigs months ago to cruise around Vietnam on a motorcycle before returning to start an import-export business in rare hookahs. And we look at them and go, What is w
The brittleness of tests or specs is a recurring topic in BDD (or acceptance test-driven development, specification-by-example, or whatever you choose to call the thing where you write acceptance criteria, automate them and then make the application match). This is a tricky area, and there are probably as many styles of defining and grouping acceptance…
If you wanted to hand a book over to a new tester, to help them get to grips with the world of testing, what topics would you expect or like to see in it?
"What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?" asked to "who's who" of third culture scientists and science-minded thinkers
Nüchtern betrachtet verkauft Apple bloß technische Geräte für den Alltag. Doch um die Firma hat sich eine Gemeinde Konsumgläubiger gebildet, deren Horizont die Marke ist. Wenn von Freitag an das neue iPhone verkauft wird, sind weitere Höhenflüge zu erwarten. Die Hysterie kann nicht über die Schattenseite des Konzerns hinwegtäuschen. Apple ist zum Sinnbild einer fragwürdigen Globalisierung geworden.
Because while the computer and the Internet are two of the greatest productivity tools ever invented, they are also the two biggest distractions ever invented (not counting reality TV). And the productivity and distractions come bundled in one package, ca
12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online February 28th, 2008 (4:00pm) Samuel Dean 22 Comments Applications that make it easy to share and collaborate are often of much more use to web workers than they are to standard office workers. Especially if you wor
What’s in Connect! Connect! A Guide to A New Way of Working from GigaOM’s Web Worker Daily tells you how to find success and satisfaction using the web. Here’s what you’ll read about in Connect!: * Chapter 1: Towards a web working world. Und
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