Six Key Trends in Quality Assurance Testing The quality assurance landscape is undergoing a major transformation as QA organizations try to align their goals with the business goals of their companies. QA has a tough balancing act to perform -- tackling business risks as well as cost reduction and ROI concerns, while building agility in their organizations to respond to business goals, says Aparna Sharma, head of client services at Infosys' independent validation and testing services practice. Sharma sees six key quality assurance trends emerging. What's in a flag? - Libya Anti-government protesters in cities across Libya have been hoisting national flags as a sign of their revolt against Muammar Gaddafi, the man who has led the country for 41 years. Abroad, where diplomats in several embassies have also renounced Gaddafi's leadership, the flag is also being used as a sign to show where loyalties lie. The flag being raised, however, is not the current national flag, but one from over 40 years ago, when Libya was still ruled by a constitutional monarchy under the el-Senussi family. It depicts three bands of green, black and red, with a white crescent and star in the centre, and was the banner under which the Kingdom of Libya won its independence from Italy on December 24, 1951. The flag was used until 1969, when it was replaced by the pan-Arab red-white-and-black tricolour.
Khamis Gaddafi Recruits Mercenaries to Shoot Protestors These sources claim this knowledge because they’ve captured some of the mercenaries, who confessed their identity and the fact that Khamis Gaddafi hired them. The sources also said they saw non-Libyan mercenaries flown in from other African countries land in the Benina International Airport near Benghazi. Al Arabiya did not report or speculate on which countries these mercenaries are from. Many African mercenaries have historically come from South Africa.
The Libyan Republic - The Interim Transitional National Council In this important historical juncture which Libya is passing through right now, we find ourselves at a turning point with only two solutions. Either we achieve freedom and race to catch up with humanity and world developments, or we are shackled and enslaved under the feet of the tyrant Mu’ammar Gaddafi where we shall live in the midst of history. From this junction came the announcement of the Transitional National Council, a step on the road to liberate every part of the Libyan lands from Aamsaad in the east to Raas Ajdair in the west, and from Sirte in the north to Gatrun in the south.
E.U. requirements may force Oracle to drop Sun deal I thought you guys are concerned about the future of Java and MySQL. So why not be concerned about the state of SUN. Or are you just resistant to this deal because it's Oracle acquiring SUN? What EU can do is allow the acquisition of the whole thing, not just partial, and just put conditions (e.g. regarding some products, etc.) to protect some healthy degree of competition. Competition shouldn't be treated in absolute terms. Even if Oracle get's a higher market share, there is still an adequate level of competition left in the market. Android app brings in $13K a month Security intelligence for a faster world One Android developer is earning more than $400 a day from his find-your-car application, proving it's not just Apple fans who'll pay for basic apps. Much has been made of the millions awaiting those who decide to develop for Apple's iPhone: the UK government even sponsored a help guide. But Google fans will be pleased to hear that there's money in Android too with one developer reporting earnings topping $13,000 a month for an application that remembers where you've parked your car. Car Locator works by recording when you park, using the embedded GPS, then alerts you when the meter needs feeding and provides a distance and direction to guide you back.
News Desk: How Qaddafi Lost Libya It seemed unlikely that Libya, sandwiched between regime collapse in Tunisia and regime collapse in Egypt, could be untouched by the movement. Qaddafi has had dominion over an increasingly malcontent country, and the citizens have been increasingly disgusted by the gap between his rhetoric of direct democracy and his autocratic grip on power. When I wrote about Qaddafi for The New Yorker, in 2006, the question was whether a much-advertised reform process was really underway. The ostensible champion of reform was Qaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam.
In Tunisia, an army of volunteers rushes to aid Libyans RAS JDIR, TUNISIA - On Friday, Khadiga Mhiri, a 32-year-old pharmacist, was watching scenes of desperate people fleeing over the border from Libya on the television screen of her home in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. Hours later, she hopped on a bus to make the eight-hour trek south, joining what has become an extraordinary outpouring of solidarity in this country, where the uprisings sweeping the Arab world began. The mounting crisis in Libya has so deeply touched this nation - which threw off the yoke of its authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, on Jan. 14 - that Tunisians from all walks of life, of all social classes, are banding together to aid Libyans and others fleeing that neighboring country.
National Transitional Council The National Transitional Council of Libya (Arabic: المجلس الوطني الإنتقالي al-majlis al-waṭanī al-intiqālī ), sometimes known as the Transitional National Council,[3] was the de facto government of Libya for a period during and after the Libyan civil war, in which rebel forces overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The NTC governed Libya for a period of ten months after the end of the war, holding elections to a General National Congress on 7 July 2012, and handing power to the newly elected assembly on 8 August.[4] The formation of the NTC was announced in the city of Benghazi on 27 February 2011 with the purpose to act as the "political face of the revolution". The council gained international recognition as the legitimate governing authority in Libya[8] and occupied the country's seat at the United Nations.[9] In referring to the Libyan state, the council used simply "Libya". Background[edit] Uprising and civil war[edit]
What I Miss in Java So I finally got some time to sit down and write, after being knee deep in work the past month or two. And without a doubt, I wanted to write about what has been heckling and annoying me over the past month. I am an ardent defender of Java as a good language, especially defending it from Misko day in and day out, but even I will agree that it does suck at times. So today, Java, the gloves are off. I love you, but this is the way things are. To give some context, I have been working on GWT a lot recently, and have done some crazy things with GWT generators (which I might cover in a few posts later).
Taking a Java-Based App Offline Using Flash Builder, LiveCycle D There are many benefits to taking an enterprise application offline, especially in today's world, when everyone is seemingly connected to the Internet. Enterprise users often find themselves outside their corporate firewall. But rather than dealing with a slow-to-respond IT department and less-than-straightforward security concerns, they want their applications ready to deal with such situations.