Looking through the archive of blog posts, I can see that I mentioned various tools for Xpath construction, but none for CSS selectors in Selenium. Let’s change that now… Firefinder helps you test your css selectors and XPath statements before committing them to Selenium code.Firefinder, much like XPather or XPath Checker, allows you to type [...]

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Most people who follow the jet set life of Larry Ellison, Oracle (ORCL) co-founder and chief executive, know that he is a passionate sailor, with BMW Oracle Racing's successive America's Cup title fresh in hand. Less well-known is that the software billionaire is almost as crazy about racquets as he is about boats. The BNP Paribas Open, now underway in Indian Wells, Calif., through Mar. 21, is Ellison's most recent sports acquisition. It's a testament to his love for tennis.

ClemensUtschig: SOA for the Java Developer, Masons of SOA founding member Clemens Utschig-Utschig shares some tips for Java developers using Patchset 2 for Oracle SOA Suite 11g. (tags: otn oracle soa soasuite java masonsofsoa) InfoQ: SOA Manifesto - 4...

Simon Phipps, one of the most visible supporters of open source inside Sun Microsystems announced in his blog yesterday that he is stepping down from his post as Chief Open Source Officer. He didn’t write his farewell as a haiku, ala former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, but it was poetic nonetheless.
Phipps, a 10-year veteran [...]

 ANTON NIELSEN

 Tech Demo Guy

 From the core

If you can't make my session at QCon tomorrow, you can get the slides and brief notes here.

Of course, you had to be there, really...

The TechCast Live schedule is filling up. Here's the lineup for the next three shows:

• March 16: Roberto Chinnici, Principal Engineer, Java EE (on Java EE 6)
• March 30: Wim Coekaerts, VP Linux and VM Development (on Oracle VM & VirtualBox integration - with demo!)
• April 13: Steve Wilson, VP, Systems Management (on Ops Center)

As always, tune in at oracle.com/technology at 10am PT. And bring your questions!

Architecting the Social Enterprise (tags: oracle otn enterprise architecture social computing) FeuerThoughts: What has Toyota actually proven here? "I must admit that as a programmer, it scares me to think that my safety (and the safety of my family...

Interesting stuff from Dion Hinchliffe on the impact of social computing on enterprise architecture: "The premise is that as we begin to organize our business processes and the way we collaborate in a fundamentally social manner, we need to manage...

My wife recently took a look at this blog and told me that it would be better with pictures.  She also suggested that not every post had to start with: If you are installing/configuring/coding with the Oracle product abc and you get error ORA-nnnnn . . . With that in mind, I share the following.

I gave a presentation called Building Alliances. It was a non-technical talk focused on working with people. The talk focused on positive alliances we can build at work as well as some of the realities – the good, the bad and the ugly of office politics. The talk was recorded at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) 2009.

I use XPather to help me write my automated tests, and other people seem to like XPath Checker. But today I needed something a little harder hitting and something which didn’t sit in the browser to help me write some batch processing xml tests. I found SketchPath, a fantastic free .net written tool.SketchPath has a [...]

Helen Pitts: Leveraging Enterprise Communications to Transform the Business "This lack of centralized, strategic thinking about communications results in multiple and inefficient ways to communicate, and leads to a siloed approach to technology. Point solutions abound in the typical...

Another week and another of my rubbish guitar-oriented demos. This one's got synths on it. And thunder. Synths and thunder, that's how we do things in South London!

I'll be a presenting a paper at ICST 2010 in Paris April 6-10 about how Google tests and builds software. Here's a pointer to the program if you are interested. Also here's a link to the abstract of the talk itself. I'll publish the paper after the talk here. Hopefully, I'll see some of you there!

One thing that many people are missing as they examine the implications of hedge fund Elliott Associates L.P.'s $2 billion offer to buy Novell is how Microsoft and other software titans stand to be impacted. Microsoft has long been in partnership with Novell, and Novell has been heavily dependent on the company to help it get lucrative Linux deals. Is there any possibility that Microsoft might buy Novell's Linux business from Elliott Associates? 

@fteter: There’s No Pop Left In Big Bang "[The] ERP big bang is dead. And the strength of the ERP implementation market has gone with it. It’s not the lousy economy as much as it as that the market...

By James A. WhittakerFlashback. It's 1990. Chances are you do not own a cell phone. And if you do it weighs more than a full sized laptop does now. You certainly have no iPod. The music in your car comes from the one or two local radio stations that play songs you can tolerate and a glove box full of CDs and cassettes. Yes, I said cassettes...you know the ones next to those paper road maps. Music on the go? We carried our boom boxes on our shoulder back then.

I recently had the good fortune at work to have tested an Amazon cloud hosted application. And this led to the test team having to investigate alternative performance test tools. We settled on BrowserMob and we have loved it. I wish BrowserMob had an affiliate program, then I might get some cash if I send [...]

Event: Oracle at OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) International Sonoma Workshop Oracle Session: "Infiniband- Enabling Massively Scalable Database" by Tim Shelter (VP Oracle Product Management), Monday March 15, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. (tags: oracle otn hardware infiniband database) @oraclenerd: XML File...

You know the annoying situation when you walk down the street minding your own business when suddenly someone stops you and says “Hey You. Are you a tester?” Well, in this informative public service broadcast I present the verbal and non-verbal techniques you need to know, to cope.

We did the Chilly Hilly 2010 bike race with Elliott last Saturday, along with 6000
other riders. Lots of hills and fun.

Using a third-party maintenance and support vendor can be a smart decision for some Oracle customers given those customers can expect better service, a significant reduction in fees and more flexible maintenance policies.
Naturally, Oracle hates this.
In January the software giant sued third-party support provider Rimini Street for intellectual property theft, claiming that the company [...]

Nigel Fenwick: The New Era Of Social Innovation "In this era, innovation will be driven by empowered customers and employees and IT and Marketing will need to join forces and collaborate as never before. The CIO and the CMO,...

The Association for Computing Machinery’s Computers & Society Special Interest Group just honored me with their “Person Who Made a Difference” award. Here’s what it’s about:Making a Difference AwardThis award is presented to an individual who is widely recognized for work related to the interaction of computers and society. The recipient is a leader in [...]

I recently had the privilege of meeting some of the staff at Merced Systems in Redwood Shores, CA. They are looking for a couple A-quality Sales Engineers in the West to represent their products. They are currently producing software in to areas: Performance Management and Incentive Management. Their software is solid and they have a fantastic executive [...]

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