במסגרת מפגש של קבוצת מנהלי הפרוייקטים שלשום בערב הוצגה פעילות של חברת AQA הפועלת לשילוב אנשים עם מוגבלויות בתהליכי בדיקות תוכנה. מקור הרעיון הוא בדנמרק - כאשר בנו השלישי של טורקיל סונה אובחן כלוקה בתסמונת אספרגר, ניסה אביו לבחון אפשרויות תעסוקתיות הולמות לבנו. הוא זיהה שלבנו יש אינטליגנציה טובה מחד, קשיים חברתיים מאידך וגם תשומת לב לפרטים, כושר חזותי מפותח, דייקנות, קפדנות, דקדקנות וצורך בחזרתיות. כישורים אלו מהווים יתרון בבדיקות תוכנה, בעיקר במקומות שבהם יש משימות בדיקה שוחקות. הוא הקים חברה בשם ספשיאלסטרן המעסיקה כ-50 איש בבדיקות תוכנה. חלקם ממוקמים אצל לקוחות...
Sometimes you get in touch with a tool that you just cant understand how previously you have been able to live without it, SpeedFiler is such a tool ! Last week a friend of mine (Ron Leeram) recommended that I'll check a cool outlook addin that is aimed to increases your productivity, as someone who is looking always for tools to increase his productivity and as one who is uses outlook on hourly basis I rushed to test this tool, few days after... I just dont understand how I was able to live without it. SpeedFiler from...
Anyone who've been developing Smart Clients (or any other Winforms based applications) using Composite UI Application block and Smart Client Software Factory was wondering how to get the great frameworks functionality for building WPF based application, WPF enable us to build rich application but building the application the right way... still missing there.
Part of my day to day work at Experts4D (my own company) i'm Mentoring and Consulting, during my last 5 days WPF & CAB Internals training I’ve decided to surprise the attendees and spent a weekend to adapt the Patterns & Practices SCSF to support building WPF...
About an hour ago i had an electricity prob back at home... well normally I’m taking care of house works by myself so I’ve jump into taking care of the prob but hmm... its night time over here and as it always turn out.. I couldn’t find the emergency light nor a flashlight to light my way in the darkness... luckily i own a T60P ThinkPad :-) Rule 1232: Whenever you need an emergency light around... just open your notebook turn the monitor brightness to full scale and you'll have an emergency light to work around.
Yesterday i've delivered a Developer's ToolBox presentation in front of the Oracle .Net Forum, during the presentation i've prmised to publish an updated version of the presentation online so here it is... Click on the following image to download the updated presentation.
I wanted to install some tools for my presentation about Developer's Toolbox at the Oracle .Net Forum and one of the tools that I wanted to show was Roy's regulator. The regulator was developed and packed via the Visual Studio 2003 Setup Project and the the msi included dependency on Framework 1.1. Currently I'm using Vista which includes .Net Framework 2.0 (in most cases it is compatible with .Net Framework 1.1 assemblies) and I didn't want to install .net Framework 1.1 on my vista machine. If I had the binaries at had it would have been simple job as to redirect .net 1.1 binaries...
On Monday 26.2.2007 i'll be lecturing at the Oracle .Net Forum about .Net Developer's Toolbox - lots of toolד that every .net developer should have on his desktop. Other lecturers during the forum meeting are Getting Started with Oracle & .NET, Builder Applications with a light framework (using Spring.net) and O/R Mapping methologies (Using NHiberante) Free Registration is open over here
The Microsoft VPC 2007 - which is working perfectly on my Vista machine with support for hardware virtualization has been released to manufacture ! Download it out over here
If you own a Thinkpad Notebook you probably aware of the cooling fan noise annoyances, if you suffer from the noise and want to have a quiet life and gain control of the fan speed take a look at the Thinkpad Fan Controller. The Thinkpad Fan Controller allows the user to control fan activity based on the system temperature (or manual of course...) This Visual C++ project controls the fan via port IO to the embedded controller. p.s. though it was build for the T4x series... its working great on my T60p.
I've been working all night to complete some work and as usual I was goggling allot but since 5:30am my ISP has some problems connecting to Google and it brings me back to the ages where Google wasn't on the planet. As I don't have much choice it is time to give a shot to some other search engines... say Live.com ... but what can I say... I keep on searching for stuff and I just don't get the relevant answerers that I used to get with Google... seems like live.com is much much back after Google in finding...
