Breaking News breaks records across the net
Submitted by Erik Petersen on Fri, 03/07/2009 - 07:18. events | non-functional testing | performance testing | perspectivesThe website TMZ.com broke the story 20 minutes after his passing, then went down briefly under the load. The LA Times was the first news site, and it fell over soon after. Online news services saw a 20% increase in traffic, but the availability of popular web news sites dropped from 100% to 86% and didn't return for another 4 hours.
Boffoonery! Comedy Benefit For Bletchley Park. London, Nov 3rd.
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 21:08.Software Craftsmanship Is Not Rolling Stone
Submitted by jason@parlezuml.com (Jason Gorman) on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 18:47.Take two music magazines: Rolling Stone and Guitar Techniques.
One is written by people who probably don't play a musical instrument and is aimed at an audience of people who probably don't play a musical instrument either and is mostly not about the actual music itself. Rolling Stone is a magazine about the music business and the musician's lifestyle.
23rd Test Management Forum
Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 09:40.The 23rd Test Management forum will take place on Wednesday 29th
July at the conference centre at Balls's Brothers, Minster Pavement.
1.30pm Coffee
2.00pm Start
5.15 Finish and drinks reception
Free to attend - as usual.
The meeting is sponsored by our patrons:
HP, SOGETI and SQS UK
Automation Bias, Documentation Bias, and the Power of Humans
Submitted by noreply@blogger.com (Michael) on Tue, 30/06/2009 - 10:55.The application process is, naturally, fraught with complication and bureaucracy. There's also a chilling and intimidating level of security; one isn't allowed to bring anything electronic into the Consulate at all. No cell phones, no PDAs, and certainly no laptop computers. That means no electronic records, and no hope of looking anything up. So one has to prepare.

