I’m not against Toyota, really. I’m against manufacturers who try to weasel out of their responsibilities after they put people at risk with poor design. I do not know if Toyota is guilty of that, here.I also don’t know what the real story is with this Sikes fellow who was in the car that he [...]

Oracle made a plea to Sun Microsystems’ UK customers to “put away their red pen” and trust Oracle will continue to support develop Sun’s products following approval of its $7.4 billion (£4.9bn) acquisition of the company.

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, is set to enter the mobile phone market with Sun’s Java software, a core component for building mobile phone applications and games.

With the Sun acquisition, Oracle gets access to Sun’s Enterprise Server Hardware, Storage Hardware and software businesses.  Sun’s software includes Java and the Solaris operating system.

My latest article on exploratory testing is in this month's issue of Better Software magazine. Check it out here: Demystifying Exploratory Testing. The references are available here: article references....

ComputerworldUK: Morrison boosts IT investment by £200 million "[I]mproving efficiencies in areas such as manufacturing and distribution...helped the company make total savings of £526 million, surpassing its expected cost savings of £460 million. A total £43 million in cost...

Someone asked me recently why I don't participate more in software testing forums. Why I don't blog more often. Why they don't find me "around" virtually as often as they used to. Balance was my answer.

My online life was becoming consuming. And it’s easy to get out of balance especially when you live in a climate like Chicago where its winter for eight months (or at least feels like it.)

A press release by Toyota recently stated:Toyota’s electronic systems have multiple fail-safe mechanisms to shut off or reduce engine power in the event of a system failure. Extensive testing of this system by Toyota has not found any sign of a malfunction that could lead to unintended acceleration.Here are some notes for [...]

We know that XPath runs slowly in IE, but XPath has the getXPathCount method. And CSS runs quickly but Selenium doesn’t have a corresponding getCSSCount method.I looked around for a simple way of getting count from a CSS selector. I found this blog post by Aditya Ivaturi, but since I like to keep my Selenium [...]

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http://big4guy.com/index.php/2009/09/30/abap_runtime_analysis_how_to_perform_aba The ABAP runtime analysis can be used to analyze the total run time required for individual SAP transaction codes, sap programs or even SAP function modules.

http://big4guy.com/index.php/2009/10/28/sap_abap_changes_to_database_tables In SAP, data is stored in backend database tables. Such data may include master data, transactional data, configuration data and so on. In order to ensure that ABAP programs get the right access to the database table, the runtime object for the table should be in sync with the structure of the table in the database. Changes to Database tables can be made in the ABAP dictionary.

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My son turned 16 a couple of weeks ago, and the event prompted me to take a fresh look at him. This is hard to do, in life. You put someone in a category, and it’s all too easy to keep him there. I think my own mother still thinks I’m 14 years-old (the age [...]

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Roddy Rodstein: Oracle VM 2.2 SAN, iSCSI and NFS Back-end Storage Configurations The latest chapter in Roddy Rodstein's "Underground Oracle VM Manual." (tags: oraclevm virtualiztion oracle otn)...

Andy Mulholland: (Information Technology) + (Business Technology) ÷ Clouds = Infostructure "Internal information technology with its dedicated users, applications, licenses, client-server, data-centric and close coupled integration architecture cannot support externally oriented business technology where almost every condition is different....

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 [...]

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