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An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium – O’Reilly Media
An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium – O’Reilly Media
To cheap not to own it – I thought a little, now I am reading it.
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Being Geek – your career in IT – O’Reilly Media
I plan on having a talk on this book at a very nice location in Berlin, like these ones:
- c-base.org
- Berlin.Betahaus.de (it is really troublesome to talk them, as long as you’re not rich)
- steigenberger.com/de/Berlin
Who wants to join?
Update / 2010-08-03 17:30 : Here is the Doodle poll link for the event. Pls mention your preferred location!Update / 2010-08-05 :
There are not just friends out there, means: I had to find a way to make sure, the poll doesn’t get screwed by trolls.I spoke to O’Reilly at Cologne – participants well get a few free copies.
Update / 2010-08-09 :
Talked to a well-known German chain book store today. The presentation will take place there, but not very soon. Any TV or radio broadcasting station interested in this?
Whoever wants to have a look into the book and let me summarize the contents: contact me and we will find time and place to do so!
Should there really be enough people showing interest, we can meet at c-base.org or just about anywhere in town. Contact me!Abstract:
As a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there’s much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Tell your boss he’s a jerk? Join that startup? Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Netscape, and Symantec in Being Geek — an insightful and entertaining book that will help you make better career decisions.With more than 40 standalone stories, Lopp walks through a complete job life cycle, starting with the job interview and ending with the realization that it might be time to find another gig. Many books teach you how to interview for a job or how to manage a project successfully, but only this book helps you handle the baffling circumstances you may encounter throughout your career.
- Decide what you’re worth with the chapter on “The Business”
- Determine the nature of the miracle your CEO wants with “The Impossible”
- Give effective presentations with “How Not to Throw Up”
- Handle liars and people with devious agendas with “Managing Werewolves”
- Realize when you should be looking for a new gig with “The Itch”
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“Perl Best Practices” as a useful good night story
“Perl Best Practices” – O’Reilly Media
I really like reading good night stories for my sons late in the evening, but I hate reading “Spiderman fights Hulk“, absolutely. Really!
Now, I actually found out years ago, that it doesn’t really matter to the kids, what you read, but that you like, what you read to them.
Last night I selected a book, which didn’t come into operation then, but with one day delay today it actually did so.
Pls find the title attached! (This referred to, when this article was a Google Buzz and there was even a picture attached. I do love Google Buzz, but the number of followers is rather depressing, I actually prefer not to know, how many usually read my blogs. And last week’s Google presentation of the Buzz API at Berlin.Betahaus.de with finest catering and unlimited free drinks even encouraged me to love it more.)
Now you may understand, what I referred to by: “it doesn’t really matter to the kids…“
You may even think, I am a bad father. I seriously don’t agree. Well, the useless social workers of the “youth welfare office” at Berlin might agree with you. But then, I don’t care.
Son#2 literally slept within minutes, which is otherwise never easy to achieve. (He can easily fought 2 hours against his sleepiness.)
Now this either has to do with the quality of the book, or simply with my son liking my voice. Choose yourself!
Son#2 actually started sleeping deeply in the middle of the preface, but I insisted on completing the preface, of course w/o even touching the acknowledgements. Sorry for that. Maybe I will browse them silently another day. I do find names interesting, and after 30 years in IT you do know a few ones.After that I decided to get the PDF for $5 from O’Reilly’s, and I immediately went for it. That PDF is now on my disk. I even think parts of this book will make good presentation material at future Berlin Technical Perl Meetings, well, maybe Stuttgart Technical Perl Meetings, if the Berlin Perl Mongers are lucky enough resp. not lucky enough. Decide yourself, which way it’s meant!
This book looks like entertaining but educative literature, just the way I considered Larry Wall’ classical Camel Book almost 20 years ago. But I read it then in the Berlin Underground on my way to work or back home.
Pls have mercy and excuse my Bad Simple English!