As WebTest is our main test automation tool that we are using since 2004, it is always good to read about it.

Marc Guillemot, lead developer of WebTest and HtmlUnit had a speech about WebTest in the JUG Cologne and has published some future plans of WebTest amongst other things. …

In my opinion there are three types of project management books:

• ones that tell you nothing
• ones that tell what you should do in order to follow some process (e.g Scrum, XP, RUP)
• ones that tell why and in what context one or the other practice or solution works

I just finished reading "Managing Teams for Dummies" by Marty Brounstein and I think that this book falls under the 3rd category. Some things I found particularly interesting:

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Hopefully following instructions are helpful, if someone wishes to subscribe to RSS feed from www.aqris.com.

1. In top right corner open Space menu and select Advanced. On that page on the left is "RSS feeds" link - click on it.
2. Click on "Feed Builder" link there.
3. Select options which suite to Your needs most and press "Create RSS Feed" button
4. Copy generated link to your RSS feed client (Thunderbird, …

We had a great opportunity to test Zev (zero-emissions vehicle) electric car today Pictures of the event in our gallery (just add your own pictures to the same set) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aqris/sets/72157606686470401

Any comments guys?

More information here: http://www.zev.ee

Found an interesting entry about writing testable code: http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2008/08/by-miko-hevery-so-you-decided-to.html
It mainly caught my eye due to the lunch time talk about code review organization in AMS team. Perhaps there are some useful tips for our reviewers as well? Or perhaps we find some more truths to add to the list?
In any case - speak up AMS team!

Second link was sent by Mart about testing in Agile world: http://www.agiletester. …

In order to create new macro for Java equals implementation in Eclipse follow these steps (I have Eclipse 3.4 but steps should be similar for older versions also):

• go to Preferences > "Java > Editor > Templates
• Choose "New..." and enter following values:

  Name	equals
  Description	Default equals implementation
  Pattern	public boolean equals(Object obj) { if (this == obj) Unknown macro: { return true; }

if (! …

Current high oil prices are seriously hurting world economies
and casue inflation.

Results of recent annual OPEC members meeting:

    * Chakib Khelil, president of Opec denied there were supply shortages.
      "?indications show that there is no shortage."

    * Qatar oil minister Abdullah al-Attiyah also said there was no need to
      boost oil supplies to global markets, …

In my old post I came up with idea that we could implement EasyMock extension that enabled to use EasyMock 2 API with Java 1.4. Now we have finally made it public and you can get it from here. We are using Apache License so there shouldn't be any licensing problems.

Although currently version is 0.8 this utility is fully functional and thoroughly unit tested. …

A tiny plug-in for Eclipse that enables tuning colors in console output: http://marian.musgit.com/projects_grepconsole.php. There is one sample configuration visible in http://marian.musgit.com/grepconsole/index.html, but I can also provide my own if anyone's interested.

Sample logging output:

found at http://www.mymilliondollaryear.com/mymiscellaneousstuff/the-procrastination-flowchart