Posted by Jessica Tomechak, Test Engineering Team

Julian Harty, one of our senior test engineers, is presenting a keynote at the STARWEST conference today (Wednesday, October 1) on Six Thinking Hats for Software Testers. Expanding on the Thinking Hats concept, originated many years ago by Edward De Bono and used by large numbers of people and various types of businesses, Julian's talk will add his experience and views about how Thinking Hats can be used in software testing. At Google, we have found it delivers breakthroughs in the short term and great results in the longer term -- one Googler called it the "universal unblocker."

I've been busy lately working on the next release of Watir, coming out later this month. It will be a combined Watir/FireWatir release. I discuss this work in detail in this podcast. Our work on supporting Firefox is drawing contributors...

I have lots of references and books for Python 2.x. I am looking forward to upgrading them and doing lots of reading for the upcoming Python 3.0 release.

As usual, the official Python 3.0 docs are great:
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/

There is already a Python 3.0 book online by Swaroop C H:
A Byte Of Python

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