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AST Instructors’ Tutorial at CAST in Toronto

You’ve read about the Association for Software Testing's free software testing courses. Now find out how you can get involved in teaching these for AST, for your company, or independently. This workshop will use presentations, lectures, and hands-on exercises to address the challenges of teaching online: Becky Fiedler, Scott Barber and I will host the Live! AST Instructors’ Orientation Course Jumpstart Tutorial On July 17, 2008, in conjunction with this year's Conference of the AST (CAST).

xUnit.net 1.0.1 released

Update for xUnit.net which adds support for ASP.NET MVC Preview 3, support for recent builds of F#, as well as fixes several bugs from the 1.0 release.

New Blog - Switched To Blogger - First Post

I was sick of the hassles of hosting my own blog, so I just switched to Blogger. All of my old feeds should remain the same... so if you are already subscribed, you are all set.

The old blog will remain up in read-only mode, so its info is still indexed and searchable.

Coming soon:

CMG News

non-functional testing | performance testing | performance testing patterns | performance testing tools
It is still not late to submit a paper to the CMG conference. Although the abstract deadline passed, the enforced deadline is only the paper deadline – June 13.

I believe that it is the best conference about computer performance. Conference proceedings from 1997 through 2005 are available to the public – probably the largest collection of performance-related papers (and most of them are practical).

Python - Yahoo Stock Quotes - Historical Pricing

I recently received a patch to my ystockquote.py module for retrieving historical stock prices. It takes a start and end date (YYYMMDD) and a ticker symbol, and returns pricing data (a nested list) for the time period specified. For example:
import ystockquote