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Tommy Wyher believes that no matter how much automated testing evolves, there will always be a place for manual testing in software.

An exploration of the difference between how humans and computers process information, and what it means for the future of AI with John Maeda.

Author and speaker Daniel Pink shares his perspective.

Check out four business applications for natural language processing.

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Instead of getting your final product rejected, use one of these tools to create effective prototypes.

This list of testing tools and libraries includes some that will be useful for automated testing, unit testing, and a variety of other testing needs.

It’s been a busy week here for Brian and I, lots of stuff going on. We did have time to collect some links however, which I share with you now. Enjoy! 8 Essential Best Practices in Windows Azure Blog Storage: “Throughout this article I’ll discuss 8 essential best practices to support you in maintaining and controlling both cost and availability. In this article I’ll look only at the best practices for the Public Containers inside Blob Storage and in future articles we’ll talk about the other types of storage.” How to Choose Between Windows Azure Queues, Windows Azure Service Bus Queues: “The article helps you compare and contrast the respective technologies and be able to make a more informed decision about which solution best meets your needs.” Why is Windows Azure Deployment Slow Compared to Heroku?: This is a balanced look at Azure and Heroku that offers great insight into why deployment times differ. So what does “The Cloud” mean now?: A humorous, but still serious, look at what “The Cloud” means to different people. Beta of Window Phone Toolkit for Amazon Web Services released: This move, IMHO, speaks volumes about Microsoft’s commitment to interoperability. Hosting your Moodle on Windows Azure: A short post highlighting 2 projects that allow you to hose Moodle on Azure. Architecting for Failure: Why Cloud Architecture is Different (Meetup): If you are in the Boston area on Feb. 7th, this looks like it would be a good Meetup to attend. NougakuDoCompanion: A “Ruby on Rails” companion for Windows Azure: A short post that highlights a project that makes hosting RoR apps on Azure easy. Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2: Workarounds for an exception while testing your node.js app in the Compute Emulator and for troubles with publishing a MongoDB-enabled node.js app to Azure. A chat with Nick Quaranto about rubygems.org internals: Q&A about what goes on inside RubyGems.org to make the magic happen. Prompts and Directories - Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell: Scott Hanselman talks about using PowerShell to work with Git and Mercurial. The client-side templating throwdown: mustache, handlebars, dust.js, and more: There’s a ton of templating solutions out there, Veena Basavaraj discusses how LinkedIn picked dust.js as it’s client-side templating solution. Beautiful docs: A collection of well-written documentation to serve as examples to those of us who write docs. Backbone.js: A Roundup for Beginners: A collection of links useful for learning how to work with Backbone.js. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/02/03/pie-in-the-sky-february-3rd-2012.aspx

Let's compare the performance and features of twelve different prototyping and mockup tools for web apps to learn their advantages.

Anything else is simply selfish leadership.

Make sure you're employing this list of best practices to ensure you're doing functional testing right.

Automated testing takes a serious commitment, so there are some questions and considerations you should take into account before going all in.

How many user stories should you have in a spring? How big is too big? How many stories per iteration per developer? Make the most of your sprints.

The Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) is an innovation in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) space developed by OpenAI.

In this article, we explore some ways to work with CSS to enhance the way you interact with the HTML of your page. Read on for more!

In this article, we look at three options for creating Spring Boot projects with Maven and Eclipse: using Spring Initializr, using the STS plugin, and doing it manually.

Props are ubiquitous in Vue, so let's look at how to give them default values.

As electric vehicles become more popular, the risk of cyberattacks on charging stations grows. Learn more about the vulnerabilities of EV charging stations.

One of the questions that comes up a lot is something like, "Are we at the point where everyone in IT needs to learn to code?"