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Competition Time - Ends 30 April 2008 - Win Manning E-books

Manning Publications have a competition to win some free e-books.
Manning say they will give away 2 free e-books every day until 30th April.
Do you feel lucky?

eviltester.com - a different view of software testing

In order to keep compendiumdev.co.uk exclusively focused on testing matters and longer ‘more thought through’ essays. I’m putting my work in progress thoughts, ‘related’ work and anything ‘controversial’ on my eviltester blog.

General Semantics Videos and Keynotes

The Institute of General Semantics has released some items from the vaults:

Audio and Video Materials including contributions from Robert Anton Wilson, Wendell Johnson, Alfred Fleishman, and Irving Lee
Transcripts and recordings from the Korzybski Memorial Lectures
and more…

3 Free multi monitor utils

3 free utilities for a multi monitor setup:

multimon
taskswitchxp
force window visible

Testing with Perl and Maxivista

Maxivista has been updated to version 3
Gabor Szabo posted an early version of his Perl in Test Automation course on the Perl GUI Test Yahoo Mailing List

A few links from my inbox

An eclectic list of links that I left in my inbox for too long:

An article on Static Analysis from Dr Dobbs
Articles on packet sniffing with WireShark
Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages
Openclipart.com list of SVG tools
2 freeware MS Excel Plugins:

Extools and
Asap Utilities

Watch this Essential SysInternals Video

SysInternals have released a free .wmv video file showing all their tools in action. Essential viewing. Read on for a short content review.

If you install too much stuff then…

…these tools might help you out: Safarp,Startup Delayer, ShellExView

Yorkspace tools list

Yorkspace.com has a small list of essential tools. I use many of these, and a few alternatives…

Utils for a minor edge

A few useful utilities:

Switch Window
And from the Microsoft XP PowerToys:

Command Prompt Here
Alt-Tab Replacement