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In recent days, I was thinking about a question : other than technique skills, what are the skills a person have which can he/she get a job during interview. In my experience of job interview, many time, people asked about algorithm and code questions...

This is my though on building and running a service. The main reason I separate these two is that it is possible that we have a poor service, but we can run while. And another side is also true. The ideally case is that we build a very good service and...

Yesterday, I attended Seattle Technique Forum: Case of Big Data , I like to post my take away here for your reference. Data Visualization: Tools and Techniques by Avkash Chauhan, Sr. Escalation Engineer, Windows Azure and HDInsight, Microsoft I...

Last week Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba shocked the web with news that its subsidiaries Taobao (like a Chinese eBay) and T-mall (like Amazon) sold a massive $3.06 billion in product in a single 24-hour period. Three billion dollars is almost triple...

Please click here for "The future of search" by Curt Monash.

Today, I come cross The Architecture of Open Source Applications site, which has two volumes of free books talking about the architecture of more than 50 Open Source Applications. Enjoy.

Last week, I got a question Does SQL Server “UPPER” function work properly on non-English characters as well? Tried searching in net, but couldn’t find clear documentation around this.. I did a quick test on my SQL box: --upper...

Please visit http://www.csdn.net/article/2013-01-03/2813386-mobile-2012-to-2013/2 for2013年，移动互联网行业技术趋势前瞻, here is the table of contents 第1页：2013年，移动互联网行业技术趋势前瞻 第2页： 2013移动行业趋势：开放平台、 HTML5 第3页： 2012 移动行业趋势 ：智能电视、谷歌眼镜 第4页：...

Jason Wolfe from Prismatic has generously agreed to describe their thoroughly modern solution for answering the “what to read question” using lots of sexy words like Machine Learning, Social Graphs, BigData, functional programming, and in...

Today, I like to recommend you read this paper: The NoSQL movement , How to think about choosing a database. You may wonder why NoSQL and BigData are so hot, and whether RDBMS is not relevant, all your questions will be answered in the paper. In...

Recently, uTest interviewed Seth Eliot, the Senior Knowledge Engineer of Test Excellence at Microsoft. In this role, he focuses on driving best practices for development testing across the entire company. Prior to Microsoft, Seth had a successful stint...

Seth wrote an article about the new role of tester in service world, called TestOps. For more information, you can visit his blog for details.Here is the summary of the paper: "The term "TestOps" is a new one, but it encapsulates a new way of thinking...

Please visit this blog for Advice from 2011′s Testers of the Year. In here, I copied a couple of advises which are relevent to us: “Test with the customer in mind. Take a look at the bug you are about to file, will it truly be valuable...

Please visit this website for the QA/Test job posting study. Enjoy

Narendra Parihar​ recently wrote a blog "Test Automation failures". I copy his first paragraph for your reference and grow your interests to read his blog: 1- How many tester's are really tester, may be 50%, rest 50% were circumferenced into testing...

Please visit here for such a great interview with Gerald Weinberg In the latest installment of Testing The Limits we speak with Gerald Weinberg. Jerry has been practicing, teaching, lecturing, consulting, coaching and writing about software programming...

A federal judge learned to code .Enjoy it.

If you are interesting to know some insight about Hadoop/Base market, you should go to http://www.dbms2.com/2012/04/24/notes-on-the-hadoop-and-hbase-markets/ . It will give a sense about how hot/(or not hot) of Hadoop.

Please follow this blog for ​A Tester’s Commitments by James Bach. Here is the first paragraph of the post: This is the latest version of the commitments I make when I work with a programmer. Dear Programmer, My job is to...

I like to share the RSS feeds I followed for reference: Monash Research All Things Quality QA Intelligence - a QABlog Esther Derby Your Software Has Bugs Software Testing Blog Creative Chaos...

In this blog, I will discussion a set of commonly used engineering principle and practices, namely, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and various Testing Strategies, which you can use in your daily work. These principles helped many organizations...

I have been a tester for more than seven years and I grow from SDET to SDET II and from SDET II to senior tester recently. During my career as a professional tester, I was wondering whether I should switch to developer, whether I can find another testing...

Learning from other’s experience is a good thing. However, what I found is that in most of the time, people seldom learn from others because unless he/she face the same issue, make the same mistake, he/she will think about maybe other’s experience...

I like to share some of my past testing experience using the below slides. Enjoying This is an embedded <a target="_blank" href="http://office.com" data-mce-href="http://office.com">Microsoft Office</a> presentation, powered by <a...

This is my take away from Seattle Tech Forum Cloud Computing section. I tried to write down what I heard from the talk. The forum's Meetup website is http://www.meetup.com/Sea-Tech-Forum/ , which you can find all referenced documents I mentioned in the...