Month: September 2012
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O’Reilly Media book: Perl Testing: A Developer’s Notebook
Perl Testing: A Developer’s Notebook – O’Reilly Media Is there any sexier topic in software development than software testing? That is, besides game programming, 3D graphics, audio, high-performance clustering, cool websites, et cetera? Okay, so software testing is low on the list. And that’s unfortunate, because good software testing can increase your productivity, improve your designs, raise…
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chromatic in “Modern Perl” on Testing
Managing Real Programs (Modern Perl 2011-2012)
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dpunkt.verlag : Basiswissen Softwaretest
dpunkt.verlag :: Basiswissen Softwaretest – Aus- und Weiterbildung zum Certified Tester – Foundation Level nach ISTQB-Standard
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O’Reilly Media book: MapReduce Design Patterns
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025122.do This handy guide brings together a unique collection of valuable MapReduce patterns that will save you time and effort regardless of the domain, language, or development framework you’re using. Each pattern is explained in context, with pitfalls and caveats clearly identified—so you can avoid some of the common design mistakes when modeling your Big…
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using foolabs’ pdfinfo for extracting the creation date from PDF files
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/portsntools.html They don’t list pdfinfo there, but it is a part of their open source tool set. It’s a companion tool to xpdf and pdftohtml. I like to use the creation date (or last modification date) of (external) documents as the leading part of their file names on my computers. I use pdfinfo for extracting…
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ssh-ing from OS X into a Linux on a local VM (VirtualBox)
for the specific virtual machine: Network Adapters / Port Forwarding / add a rule like “Protocol=>TCP, Host Port=>2222, Guest Port=>22, leave the IP addresses blank!”; the VirtualBox help system opens a nice and very instructive PDF manual, that really made me feel comfortable with this this way you should actually be able to “ssh -p…
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problems talking to a web-site through https, actually an SSL / TLS issue
May I point you to my updated article [Link]?
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my Lego Ninjago links
son#2’s current favorite toys … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Ninjago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Ninjago:_Masters_of_Spinjitzu lego.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Ninjago_sets http://ninjago.lego.com/de-de/SpinjitzuZone/FAQ/default.aspx http://ninjago.lego.com/de-de/SpinjitzuZone/CardDictionary/Default.aspx http://ninjago.lego.com/en-gb/Spinjitzuzone/CardDictionary/default.aspx … to be continued resp. updated.
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is there such a thing as a silent subscription” to a “majordomo” driven mailing list?
Majordomo (software) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://www.educationaldevelopment.net/elt2/majrdomo.htm – commands etc. http://www.rochester.edu/it/email/Majordomo/commands.html I would love to stay subscribed and be able to post to a particular mailing list (I can read them elsewhere), but I don’t want to receive the messages – alright, apart from the administrative ones.