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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...

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...

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：...

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...

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.

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

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 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...

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.

A federal judge learned to code .Enjoy it.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...