Track+ is a web based issue tracking and project management software. The newest Open Source version has just been released. The new Windows installer improves installation and many new features have been added.

With representatives from all the major Selenium projects on hand to present ideas, discuss the future of Selenium and answer audience questions, the Selenium Open Evening is an opportunity to get involved in the future of the project. With Selenium developers from as far apart as London, Tokyo and the US and Lightning Talks on related subjects, this is a great way to meet Selenium users and meet some of the other brightest minds in web testing and Agile development!

In his now infamous Letter To The Editor On Certification published in the Cutter Consortium's IT Journal back in 1998, Tom DeMarco argues very effectively against certification of software developers.

Among his points, he suggests that we should let the market take care of deciding which software developers should get hired and which should not, arguing that such a market-driven system would be more effective than relying on self-appointed certification authorities like the SEI and other crusty institutions of that ilk.

This morning I recorded a webcast with Scott Barber. The recording will be available soon through Tech Target. It was the third webcast I’ve recorded so I’ve been through the process before. Thought I share some thoughts on the experience. And I wanted to capture these thoughts before the day rolls on and I don’t have that still-feeling-it reaction.

The hardest part of recording is that we can’t see each other. The editor lives in one state, Scott lives in another and I live in a third state. We had a second editor on the line and she lives in yet a fourth state. So there’s no eye contact which makes coordinating a more thought involved process than normal. I wonder that people speculate that we’re in a recording studio together but we’re not. Two things about that are tough the dreaded dead air time or worse talking over some one. You do the best you can to rehearse and coordinate how to pass the speaking baton which leads to my concern about sounding canned and scripted. You have to plan the passing but then talk naturally when you’re up – however – you don’t want to stray so far from the slides or the material that your co-presenter is thinking - where is she now?

Travis has a great post on why It's Not OK To Skip The Standup.

Sitting as I do at the centre of a spider's web of informants from all around the world, I get some pretty wierd and wonderful links sent to me.