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Intre 15 si 19 noiembrie, Adobe organizeaza cursul de testare software First Time QE, ajuns la a treia editie. Pentru cei interesati, mai multe detalii:

Suntem bucuroşi să vă anunţăm că în Noiembrie Adobe România va organiza a 3-a ediţie a cursului de testare software – First Time QE. Cursul este organizat şi prezentat în totalitate de către angajaţi Adobe România şi, sperăm noi, va fi plin de lucruri utile şi “momente Kodak”.

Cursul se va derula pe durata a 5 cinci zile, în săptămâna 15 – 19 Noiembrie, şi va avea ca scop principal introducerea participanţilor în ceea ce înseamnă testarea software, care sunt etapele unui astfel de proces şi cum ar trebui ele abordate. Fiecare zi de curs se va derula în intervalul orar 10:00 – 18:00 cu 1 oră pauză de masă la prânz.

Agenda cursului este următoarea:

Day 1: Where does testing fit in the Software Product Lifecycle
Day 2: Test design, testing methodology
Day 3: Practical tests and bug reporting
Day 4: Automation
Day 5. Special day

Numărul de locuri este limitat, la curs putând participa doar 12 persoane.

Procesul de selecţie se va face în 2 etape. În prima etapă doritorii vor trebui să se joace cu o aplicaţie al cărei scop principal este de a testa abilităţile lor în găsirea problemelor (adică a bugurilor ).

În urma rezultatelor obţinute şi a problemelor găsite şi raportate se va face o primă selecţie urmând ca selecţia finală să se facă pe bază unui mini-interviu cu unul dintre membrii echipei First Time QE.

Cursul se va ţine la sediul Adobe România situat în clădirea de birouri Anchor Plaza, etaj 9, pe Bulevardul Timişoara nr. 26Z, lângă Plaza România, Bucureşti.

Înscriere:
Link: http://bit.ly/QE_EESTEC
Data limită pentru înscrieri: 9 Noiembrie 2010

Când: 15-19 Noiembrie 2010

Unde: La sediul Adobe România, din Bd. Timişoara, 26 Z, Bucureşti

Vă urăm succes şi multă baftă,
Echipa First Time QE

When I come to think about what I will do in the future, I crave for a position in which I will manage important things, and getting all the glory. But how will I do that if today I give up managing my own life (and by this I mean the daily issues, not the things in life that go beyond me, such as the meaning of life, which are in the hands of God)?
I’m trying to find a PURPOSE and hope this will be the end of my blurriness! I hope I’m not who I know myself to be.
For now I’m just puzzled and not sure of what I wanted to say. (Note to self: practice your writing, you pathetic little thing!)

What is wrong with people and spam? I’m sick of spam comments. And I’m supposed to have some spam protection thing. It’s not really working as far as I see.

These days I’ve started to look a bit into web design and some php. I think I will play with these things for a bit now. For those interested in this, take a look at DesignInformer. I got trapped in a series of articles which tackled some wild ideas.
So I’m thinking again about creating my personal website (I hate the fact that it will end up being a blog, but… ) Should start by getting hold of that domain name.

“…reprezentarea vietii este totdeauna mai coplesitoare decat viata insasi, … se plange la vederea unui portret si niciodata la vederea unui chip.” Philippe Forest

Motorola Rokr E8 has been on the market since late 2007 and was awarded “Best of CES 2008 people’s choice” by c-net and it looks amazing even today. It has the basic functions of a phone, but what makes it stand up in the crowd is its unique design. But this is also what drags it down.

A nice feature of this phone are the 2 GB of internal memory and the microSD card slot which can add another 4GB of storage to the device. In my case this makes it perfect to use as a music player. But on the other hand the 2 mp camera is not so great, which is why it won’t be used so much.

The Rokr has a great sound quality during calls and combined with a good battery life it makes a good use as a phone. It also has a firm body, but it’s screen is a fingerprint magnet, though not easily scratched. But enough with the praising.

The greatest downside of this phone is the software’s response time. You press the button, go have a cup of tea, read the news, come back, wait another 2 seconds and then maybe you will see the phone working. That is annoying specially when you take a call. You press the green button and expect to talk with someone but that won’t happen for the next couple of seconds… I don’t know what that phone has to think about when it should answer the call.
This is why navigating the menu takes some use to. It took me about forever to get used to it. Which I did, but only after I got a new phone and realized what I have lost.

I never got to change the theme and the wallpaper of the phone because the black and red ROKR wallpaper it came with looked magically on that display. Which, by the way, has an unusual size. It sometimes seems small, other times big, because it is a “widescreen” 320×240 TFT. Does about 256k colors.

To wrap this up, the Motorola ROKR E8 is cheaper than it looks, moves slower than it should and all this while playing your favorite tunes (yeah, it also has FM Radio and a web browser and stuff). It stands out thanks to a nice touch-sensitive keyboard and that cool mode-shift, but that’s where the magic stops.

I’ve moved on, got a Sony Ericsson c905 – we’ll talk about that later – but I have to confess I miss the Rokr.

Yet again I sense that urge to write. Anything! It may be just to get things out of my mind to make space for new ideas. But it’s more likely this is the reaction to all the inspirational reading I did today (and the endless time I spent brainwashing myself staring in the LCD of my laptop while devouring the story of Cal Lightman from “Lie to me“).
One thing that I can say for certain is that I easily get excited about projects aimed at changing the world, or the community, or something… and the excitement fades away as I get close to actually doing something with my life. So there you have it: as I’m writing these words I’m so much more less involved in the process than 100 words ago. And I would usually go for an abrupt ending. But I shall go on whining about random stuff.
I’m staring at Donald Miller‘s “A million miles in a thousand years” which I finally got yesterday. I remember being so happy with the first book of Miller’s I have read, “Blue like jazz”. It has a catchy title, given the fact that I like jazz at any given moment (unlike my likeliness for other genres of music, which varies so hazardously). I’ll start reading the new book sometime this week, hopefully. Which reminds me I still have a ton of books to finish reading… as usual. I should start writing more – it might be good for the brains (and the zombies will have a decent meal). And I definitely have to open my Bible on a daily basis, as I used to.
As expected, coming to Bucharest was not a problem for me at the psychological level, but it made some changes in my personality (nothing I can’t handle!). I have to get may daily “time with God” back! Like yesterday!
However, my willingness to change is not as steady as I would like it to be. And so I spend days living as a vegetable. The only things I care about are some stupid TV shows I so often get obsessed with. I remember a while back I had such a thirst for knowledge… I miss those days. I regret not doing anything with my life. So why am I still doing nothing? It is time for me to ask some questions.
I read a couple of days ago about an interesting question: “What if?” Is it the question I have to ask myself? I wish life would be a test with single-choice answers and yet, in way that are still beyond me, I’m glad it is so complex. And this is how I drift again in the field I love so much: the way God created ALL things so complex and yet simple. That is something I like to think at for hours, at no end, except the part when I realize once again that God is so beyond anything we can think of. So people who say they know God seem so stupid. And they are not. There are people who know God.
I get so excited when I stumble upon such paradoxes. But then I look at the clock and see it is late and I have to wake up tomorrow morning and do some maths that involves these guys I have no idea about, called LaPlace and Fourier. I guess they were smart but I have no intention to follow their example. Their theories torture so many students who forgot they came to college for study. Or maybe they did not forget that. They are forced to get a diploma because of the way our society evolved.
And so one could say, and one would be right thinking that all things are in vain. And so I got back to my paradoxes, because while life seems to be in vain, it’s also meaningful and living is the best thing one could do (not going to explain what “living” means – I have yet to discover that for myself).
This being said, I’ve quenched my thirst for now. I hope I’ll get back sooner and that no one would read this post. But if one should read this, I have nothing against it!

Ceasul a trecut de unu. Noaptea. Ăsta e al șaselea film de azi. Azi a fost ziua plină de filme low-budget. De ce? Pentru că n-au avut mai mulți bani si pentru că nu am avut nimic în program. S-ar părea ca iar am pierdut o gramadă de timp pe care nu mi-l permit și nici acum nu am ințeles cum să am grijă de timpul meu. Nici macar nu e al meu, cu atât mai mult ar trebui să am grijă de el.
Mă simt bine acum, când scriu, dar știu că trebuie să mă trezesc din partea asta low-budget a vieții. Nu mă găndesc la o viață încărcată în care să nu am timp să respir. Acum tot ceea ce fac este să respir. Atât! Poate și căteva gânduri despre cât de „mișto” ar fi dacă nu aș fi eu. De asta după fiecare film pe care îl văd îmi trebuie ceva timp să ies din pielea personajului principal.
Rolul agentului secret e preferatul meu. Mă refer la agentul care lupta împotriva sistemului. Nu știu dacă îmi place că tipul e inteligent și rebel pentru că aș vrea să fiu așa sau pentru că seamănă cu mine. Eu inteligent și rebel? De multe ori nu reușesc să trec peste timiditate și îmi zic totuși că e suficient să știu numai eu ce e în capul meu. Doar e capul meu. Și așa trec mai departe descurajat.
Gata. Nu mai am ce scrie acum. Trebuie să termin de văzut filmul. O să și dorm în cele din urmă.