Djinn, Demons & Afrits!!!

Well, I am diversifying a little here from my original technological babble that you usually see. I am so 'into' this now that i could not resist writing a small note to the people who drop-by here.

I was reading a new fiction these days by Jonathan Stroud called 'The Bartemieus Trilogy' and got hooked to it. See the title once again and the subject strikes like a lightning. Yes, it is about those and magicians. Not anything like Harry Potter, though (I am sure this bit would help a lot of folks who despise Harry Potter books).

I, specifically, liked the wit and the plot that makes the book unputdownable. Wit is very subtle and enjoyable. Look for 'Amulet of Samarkand' to start with which is the first in the series.

HNY 2008

A very happy and prosperous New Year 2008 to everyone reading my blogs!

Let us look forward, towards 2008, with renewed enthusiasm and faith.

Google Android

Is this a robot that behaves like human? hardly...

Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It is built to be truly open.

Certainly the news of Google Android release created a lot of hype, but will it sustain? Google Android is a Linux-based mobile software stack incorporating everything from os to apps.

To attract developers to Android, Google has launched a $10m (£5m) competition to find applications that can be run on the various handsets that will use the platform.

We just have to wait and see how Andriod turns out to the mobile users!

Product testing in single day?

Can a product be certified and released within 1-day of automated testing?

This is a goal Google Test Engineering group is talking about setting for themselves. Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering Director at Google, talks about testing at Google in his keynote address at GTAC 2007 (Google Test Automation Conference).

Every Software Engineer (and Test Engineer) should watch the video of this talk.

Google Docs Rocks!

Google explains how Google Docs (Create and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.) works, with example in this Google Docs in Plain English YouTube video. check it out.

A flip for Worldcup win

India won the T20 Worldcup Final match yesterday against Pakistan. Misbah played a flip shot (he should not have done this) and a stroke of lightning luck struck Indian team. Well, Misbah must have cursed himself (and everyone else must have cursed him too..) for that shot.

Our own Bhajji also added to the frustration by giving away runs in the last few overs that turned tables in favor of Pak.

Anyways, what seemed to have been a Pakistan's turned to become an Indian one, because of one flip. In the years to come T20 Cricket can change the Indian cricket scenario (and the world's too..) dramatically.

WATIR

While Selenium is a good solution for functional / UI automation, WATIR seem to be picking up steam. Web Applications Testing In Ruby (WATIR) is becoming more and more a standard for functional automation of web apps.

Please read more about it @ http://wtr.rubyforge.org/