To all testingReflections loyal users, first let me say that I cannot apologise enough for the extended down time that you've experienced.

I cannot reveal all the details to this at this time but will do so in the near future. Suffice to say that the cause of the problems was due to a lack of available time to take the best care of testingReflections. The problem was exacerbated by a server move that happened before I'd had a chance to do what was necessary to make TR compatible with the new environment.

Over the last few days I've had to make time (at the expense of sleep or much rest over the bank holiday). The work is not yet complete but I am testing the next stage and will notify you of any further down-time well in advance (save any other unexpected events happening).

Thank you for your patience and I hope you continue to gain value from testingReflections.com

Best Regards

Antony Marcano

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This is a special thank you to everyone who has contributed to the testingReflections community... Thanks to all those visitors and thanks to all the content providers (who I hear receive plenty of good traffic in referrals from TR ;-)

January 2008 saw the largest number of unique visitors and page impressions for TR so far...

Unique visitors:        32,382 (19 robots)
Number of visits:       88,995*
Pages:                 264,866* 

*excluding robots

This has inspired me to spend more time working on TR (as some of you now affectionately call it)... this is going to take time and money... almost all my own at the moment...

If you would like to contribute, feel free to donate (see link in right column)... or if you are a corporation and want to expose your brand to all these TR users, get in touch via admin/at\testingReflections/dot\com.

Once again, many thanks...

-Antony

[textile]It has been brought to my attention that some people who have requested that their blog is aggregated on testingReflections and subsequently were declined feel somewhat rejected - or indeed bitter about this.

I expected this, however, it doesn't make me feel any less disappointed about it. It was inevitable that egos would be bruised the moment I had to start saying "no".

h2. Personal Feelings or Disservice to the Community?

Read more and register: http://www.performance-workshop.org/content/view/44/86/

Theme: Pushing the boundaries of performance testing tools
or when the performance test tool won't let you do…
Conference Location and Time

Microsoft, Redmond, WA USA
September 27 - 29, 2007

A Microsoft organized pre-WOPR event will take place on September 26. WOPR participants will also be invited to attend this event.

[textile]As I "previously mentioned":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/5493 the testingReflections homepage is welcoming a sponsor. Please welcome Seapine Software (see banner underneath the welcome message on the "testingReflections homepage":http://www.testingReflections.com).

Seapine want to promote QA Wizard Pro and, as one of their representatives put it, "we get to give back to the community by making sure sites like yours stay around".

Do check out their product.

Thank you to Seapine for their support.

If you are interested in sponsoring testingReflections, send an e-mail to admin|at|testingReflections|dot|com. We will discuss your budget and options for a bespoke sponsorship deal.

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I listen to Pandora (www.pandora.com) every now and then, and it is a great site. It offers a custom audio stream, based on your preferences. You choose an artist or song, and music by them and in a similar vein will be played. They have paid staff who do the classifications of all the tracks, and relevant classification from your choices guide the track selection. You can also fast track it by giving a thumbs up or down to a track. When you are listening to a track, you can view a selection of its classifications.

So what was Mercury Interactive that then became Mercury is now to be rebranded HP. Apparently, this is on the basis of the IT industry being more familiar with HP than Mercury. I guess that's true in general, but not in the testing tool space. Even IBM has preserved the Rational name, but Rational had ditched the SQA name when they bought TeamTest. So that great Mercury bull-grabbed-by-the-horns t-shirt from STARwest in October is the last one in a long line of Mercury images.... Guess I could save it for eBay, but it’s too good an image not to wear! (Mind you, I could probably put my old SQA TeamTest t-shirt up on ebay now!)