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Take a Break and Let Your Brain Do Its Best Work By getting away from your work, you’ll be able to focus better when you get back to it. You’ll be more alert and therefore more productive. You’ll avoid burnout. It's after you take a break from your job that your brain sometimes does its best work—even if the break is only for a minute. Read on. |
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Theresa Lanowitz Talks Extreme Test Automation at STAREAST 2014 In her STAREAST 2014 keynote—Extreme Automation: Software Quality for the Next Generation Enterprise—Theresa Lanowitz covered the global trends in testing, emerging technologies, and (of course) extreme automation. Read on for more insights on modern testing from Theresa's talk. |
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From Jeff Bezos—A Valuable Lesson on Competition Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently addressed a group of children at an elementary school. There was was one particularly interesting sound bite: "Who succeeds at Amazon? Explorers and pioneers. Who fails? Those who focus on killing our competitors." Here's why you shouldn't obsess over competition. |
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Google to Startups: Move Out of That Garage to a Tech Hub Google has launched a Tech Hub Network partnership where today’s startups can move beyond a garage operation to a co-working space with access to technology, mentors, desks, and some atmosphere. Pamela Rentz profiles this growing effort to support startups and entrepreneurs. |
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The Heartbleed Bug: What It Can Teach Us about Defect Advocacy Even though the fix for the Heartbleed bug was quickly made available, the bug itself created considerable panic among Internet users. Why did this bug get so much attention? One reason: clean communication, or in testing terms, defect advocacy. |
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What's in the May/June 2014 Issue of Better Software Magazine? Better Software magazine editor Ken Whitaker highlights content from the latest issue, including articles on prioritization, configuration management, developing apps for the cloud, and handling quality issues in data warehousing. |
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Turning Smartphones into a Supercomputer Smart devices can now become super devices with the Power to Give initiative from HTC. The initiative aims to empower smartphones to become a collective supercomputer and to harness their unused power to solve complex problems—such as finding cures for Alzheimer's disease and AIDS. |
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Why We Often Ignore Good Advice Sometimes, it’s when we need advice the most that we latch onto our old beliefs and hold on tight. If the advice doesn’t fit our worldview, we reject it while rationalizing our way to keeping our current views strong. Read on to find out why that can happen—and what you can do to be more receptive. |
