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		<title>ISTQB software testing qualifications</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much said about the ISTQB software testing certificates. Many software testing positions now require them, yet others seem to not really put much weight on them. So what&#8217;s the deal? Is it worth investing the time and money? Does having one open more opportunities for you? What do they actually test? Firstly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting to a database with PHP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re going to create a website with any sort of dynamically generated content, you&#8217;re definitely going to need to connect to a database at some point. One of the most common server side scripting languages is PHP. In this post I&#8217;ll show you how to connect to your database. You&#8217;ll need to have MySQL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checking if a process is alive using Java, JNI and C++</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many times in QA, it&#8217;s necessary to check if a process is ok from the outside. For example, we make a program open a file, and now we need to check if it&#8217;s OK. How do we do this? Well, there are several methods, but the main problem is that you can&#8217;t really tell from, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Java Swing Dynamic Combo Box (suggestion box)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we can all agree that it&#8217;s a great user experience to have dynamically updated and populated dropdowns for user input. Especially if the user has a large choice of selections, or there are many similar ones. Or even if the user is unsure of what to type. It is especially usefull for search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiences of Crowd Sourced Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 03:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve touched on crowd sourced testing before, and in this post I&#8217;ll go into some details of its limitations and the best scenarios to use it. I&#8217;ll also address the positive aspects of crowd sourcing QA, as well as the negatives This is based on around 20 test runs over a period of several months. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Python and Java with Jep &#8211; Getting Started</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 00:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may be a time when you need to interface java with Python scripts. Recently I needed to use SciPy to make use of its excellent numerical processing capabilities, yet most of my data and inputs were being created from a Java based application. SciPy is a mature stable numerical and scientific library that allows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calendar source code &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a fair bit of interest in the java calendar source code (here), I thought I&#8217;d make it available and explain it&#8217;s methods. Firstly, how does it work? Essentially it&#8217;s a bunch of standard swing components (JTable, JComboBoxes) used to create a calendar the user can pick a date from. The combo boxes have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calendar source code &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some source code I wrote for a quick and dirty calendar widget I needed for a project I&#8217;m currently working on. Those of you who&#8217;ve dealt with Java before will probably know that a calendar UI widget is missing from the hundreds of standard API classes on offer. There are a huge amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get That Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you get that job in IT? You&#8217;ve got the degree, but everyone seems to think &#8220;entry level&#8221; applicants were born with 3 years experience. Most graduates (at least in the IT sector) seem to manage to land a first job somewhere between the 3rd and 4th levels of hell. How can you avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crowd Sourcing QA and Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the explosion of web enabled computing devices such as netbooks, smartphones and tablets, in addition to the more traditional desktops and laptops, it’s become strategically important for software companies to have their products and services run on as many platforms as possible. This is in addition to support for the most popular operating systems.Having [...]]]></description>
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