Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

I am reviewer for Brian Marick’s book Scripting for Testers. I wondered if it got cancelled, because the last post at reviewers mailing list was in July. Today I have red at Brian’s blog that

Scripting for Testers has been renamed Everyday Scripting in Ruby

and

Sadly, the scheduled ship date is a bit after Christmas. Since it would be sad if testers didn’t get the book under their tree, we’ve decided to delay the holiday.

I wonder how is he going to do that?

I was very surprised today when I saw this advertisement in Windows Live Messenger 8 this morning. This looks to me like Arabic alphabet, but since I can not read it, I really can not be sure. I wonder why Messenger thinks I can read Arabic? Maybe my Croatian preferences confused it?

In any case, this looks like a bug to me. Why?

Commercial is there because somebody wants me to buy something from them. Right? But it should be written in language that I understand, otherwise I would miss it. Even if commercial is written in language I can read, it should be written in alphabet I could read. Commercial written in any other alphabet, even in language I understand, would miss me.

Maybe this advertisement is intentionally strange to intrigue me. If that is the case, it succeeded. I clicked that commercial and it leads to http://get.live.com/messenger/features.

I just love Gmail labels. I have lots of them, over two hundred. Every person has a label. I also have several special labels, like personal and work. I use them to label mail that I have read but can not respond at the moment. I use those special labels a lot. Labels are sorted alphabetically, so those labels are at the bottom (personal, work). I use a simple trick to move them to the top of the list. I add dot to the beginning of label. Now personal is .personal, and work is .work. You could use another character, but I like dot. It is small and useful.