QTP 11 now supports Google Chrome browser | Learn QTP

QTP 11 now supports Google Chrome browser | Learn QTP

QTP 11 now provides replay support for Google Chrome browser. You would need to download and install the patch QTPWEB_00088.EXE available at HP’s support site.

Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android - Slashdot

Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android - Slashdot

Hugh Pickens writes "Gary Morgenthaler, a recognized expert in artificial intelligence and a Siri board member, says that Apple now has at least a two-year advantage over Google in the war for best smartphone platform. 'What Siri has done is changed people's expectations about what's possible,' says Morgenthaler. 'Apple has crossed a threshold; people now expect that you should be able to expect to speak ordinary English — and be understood. Siri has cracked the code.' The threshold, from mere speech recognition to natural language input and understanding, is one that Google cannot cross by replicating the technology or making an acquisition adds Morgenthaler. 'There's no company out there they can go buy.' Morgenthaler's comments echo the recent article in Forbes Magazine, 'Why Siri Is a Google Killer' that says that Apple's biggest advantage over any other voice application out there today is the massive data Siri will collect in the next 2 years — all being stored in Apple's massive North Carolina data center — that will allow Siri to get better and better. 'Siri is a new interface for customers wanting to get information,' writes Eric Jackson. 'At the moment, most of us still rely on Google for getting at the info we want. But Siri has a foot in the door and it's trusting that it will win your confidence over time to do basic info gathering.'"

The 10 Minute Test Plan | Google Testing Blog

Google Testing Blog: The 10 Minute Test Plan

Some test plans document simple truths that likely didn’t really need documenting at all or provide detailed information that isn’t relevant to the day to day job of a software tester. In all these cases we are wasting effort. Let’s face facts here: there is a problem with the process and content of test plans.

To combat this, I came up with a simple task for my teams: write a test plan in 10 minutes. The idea is simple, if test plans have any value at all then let’s get to that value as quickly as possible.

Given ten minutes, there is clearly no room for fluff. It is a time period so compressed that every second must be spent doing something useful or any hope you have of actually finishing the task is gone. This was the entire intent behind the exercise from my point of view: boil test planning down to only the essentials and cut all fat and fluff. Do only what is absolutely necessary and leave the details to the test executors as opposed to the test planners.

Google Preps Devs For One-Size-Fits-All Android - Slashdot

Google Preps Devs For One-Size-Fits-All Android - Slashdot

alphadogg writes "Google is preparing Android developers for the latest edition of its Android mobile operating platform that will work the same on both tablets and smartphones. Scott Main, the lead tech writer for Google's Android Developers Blog, reminded developers on Monday that the newest edition of Android — dubbed 'Ice Cream Sandwich' — will 'support big screens, small screens and everything in between.' Main also emphasized that Android would maintain 'the same version ... on all screen sizes' going forward."

RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' | Slashdot

RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' - Slashdot

An anonymous reader points out an article by Richard Stallman in The Guardian which questions whether Android should be described as 'free' or 'open.' Quoting:

"Google has complied with the requirements of the GNU General Public License for Linux, but the Apache license on the rest of Android does not require source release. Google has said it will never publish the source code of Android 3.0 (aside from Linux), even though executables have been released to the public. Android 3.1 source code is also being withheld. Thus, Android 3, apart from Linux, is non-free software, pure and simple. ... Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. Hackers are working on Replicant, but it's a big job to support a new phone model, and there remains the problem of the firmware. Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones, they cannot be said to respect your freedom."

Google Dart to “ultimately ... replace JavaScript” | 2ality

Google Dart to “ultimately ... replace JavaScript”

The following keynote will be held at the GOTO Aarhus 2011 Conference on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011:

“Dart, a new programming language for structured web programming”

This post explains what Dart is all about and how it relates to JavaScript.

Google App Engine's new pricing model -- Guillaume Laforge's Blog

Google App Engine's new pricing model -- Guillaume Laforge's Blog

I'm quite disappointed by Google App Engine's new pricing model.

I was aware of the changes, the upcoming prices and quotas, but I wasn't expecting my small low-trafic apps to go beyond the free quotas, and force me to have to pay for those small Gaelyk apps!

The big problem is the cost of the "frontend instance hours". An app running all the time, with low trafic, but enough to keep a frontend instance running all day will cost you 30 bucks a month with this new pricing policy.

Lessons in a 21st Century Tech Career: Failing Fast, 20% Time and Project Mobility | Google Testing Blog

Google Testing Blog: Lessons in a 21st Century Tech Career: Failing Fast, 20% Time and Project Mobility

If your name is Larry Page, stop reading this now.

Let me first admit that as I write this I am sitting in a company lounge reminiscent of a gathering room in a luxury hotel with my belly full of free gourmet food waiting for a meeting with the lighthearted title "Beer and Demos" to start.

Let me secondly admit that none of this matters. It's all very nice, and I hope it continues in perpetuity, but it doesn't matter. Engineers don't need to be spoiled rotten to be happy. The spoiling of engineers has little to do with the essence of a 21st century tech career.

Now, what exactly does matter? What is the essence of a 21st century tech career that keeps employees loyal and engaged with productivity that would shame the most seasoned agile-ist? I don't yet have the complete story, but here are three important ingredients...

Grails + jQuery UI + GAE - Startup Guide Part One | INhouse 32

Grails + jQuery UI + GAE - Startup Guide Part One

This tutorial shows the steps required to create a simple Grails application with jQuery UI, the Grails AppEngine plugin and the GORM-JPA plugin. The tutorial will also point out criticals steps that require special attention.

Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com

Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com

This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Both moves surprised the tech world. But both moves are also in line with a trend I've observed, one that makes me optimistic about the future growth of the American and world economies, despite the recent turmoil in the stock market.
[SOFTWARE1] QuickHoney

In short, software is eating the world.

App Inventor Continues Life at MIT - Slashdot

App Inventor Continues Life at MIT - Slashdot

An anonymous reader writes with a press release on the App Inventor Weblog. From the release: "MIT announced the launch of the new Center for Mobile Learning, with a first activity being to take over and refine App Inventor for Android. The center will be led by App Inventor mastermind Hal Abelson, Mitch Resnick of Lego Mindstorms and Scratch fame, and Eric Klopfer, the director of teacher education at MIT and an expert in games and simulation. This news boomerangs the negativity surrounding Google's discontinuation announcement last week. To the many teachers whose curriculums have been energized by App inventor, and to the thousands of newly empowered app builders: Rejoice! The fun has just begun!"

Using AppEngine (and GWT) in a CI environment | Kyle Baley

Using AppEngine (and GWT) in a CI environment | Kyle Baley

These days, I don’t much like being ahead of, behind, askance of, or otherwise deviated from the curve. It used to fit well with my “blogging as a nervous tic” phase of early 2008 when I would apparently post about every single compiler error I encountered and how it fit in with the grand scheme of things. But now, I prefer my technology much more Google-able. Does wonders for my productivity. In light of that, this post will fall into the category of “interesting to people searching for a solution to a specific problem.”
And so it was that I went and tried to set up a CI process for our brand spankin’ new AppEngine app.

Java development 2.0: Hello Google App Engine

Java development 2.0: Hello Google App Engine

Open source solutions and borrowed infrastructures are changing the character of Java™ development, letting you deliver better software quickly and at a low cost. Andrew Glover, coining the term Java development 2.0 to encapsulate the cumulative force of these phenomena, launches a new series on some of the relevant tools and technologies. This first installment heralds the arrival of Java development 2.0 and explains how you can bring its concepts to fruition quickly with Google's App Engine for Java.

Nilay Patel • The Android multitouch story gets even murkier

Nilay Patel • The Android multitouch story gets even murkier

There’s been a lot of chatter these past few weeks about Steven Levy’s new Google book In the Plex, and particularly some revelations in the book about Steve Jobs — specifically, that Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted him to be the first CEO of Google, and that Jobs mentored the two founders until he later saw pinch-to-zoom in Android and everything went to hell. The acrimony was so deep, we’re told, that Jobs kept the iPad a secret from Eric Schmidt even though Schmidt was still on Apple’s board of directors while it was being developed. (Schmidt would later step down, of course.) It’s juicy stuff, and it nicely feeds right into the current iOS vs. Android narrative of the day.

Spring Roo - springroo can't setup gwt - Stack Overflow

spring roo - springroo can't setup gwt - Stack Overflow

I had the same problem with the Roo sample expenses.roo project. I solved it by adding the missing maven dependancy to project.
From Roo shell run this:

dependency add --groupId com.google.appengine --artifactId appengine-api-1.0-sdk --version 1.4.0

Google Plugin for Eclipse - Google Code

Installing the Plugin - Google Plugin for Eclipse - Google Code

Scripting Layer for Android brings scripting languages to Android

android-scripting - Scripting Layer for Android brings scripting languages to Android. - Google Project Hosting

Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to get things done.
Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, in the background, or via Locale. Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, JavaScript, Tcl, and shell are currently supported, and we're planning to add more. See the SL4A Video Help playlist on YouTube for various demonstrations of SL4A's features.

Rapid Application Development for the Cloud - Google Web Toolkit - Google Code

Rapid Application Development for the Cloud - Google Web Toolkit - Google Code

Getting started with GWT, Spring Roo, and SpringSource Tool Suite

One of the main features of GWT 2.1 is the integration with SpringSource developer tools. This collaborative effort is focused on making it easy to develop rich web apps for business, bringing together GWT, Spring Roo, and SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Google Releases Android 3.0 Honeycomb Development Kit | TechnoBuffalo

Google Releases Android 3.0 Honeycomb Development Kit | TechnoBuffalo

For the developers, they will find news tools such as:

• New UI framework for creating great tablet apps
• High-performance 2D and 3D graphics
• Support for multicore processor architectures
• Rich multimedia and connectivity
• Enhancements for enterprise
• Compatibility with existing apps

And for the 99.9% of you our there who don’t develop apps, what we have to look forward to is things like:

• System Bar, for global status and notifications
• Action Bar, for application control
• Customizable Home screens
• Recent Apps, for easy visual multitasking (pictured to the right)
• Redesigned keyboard
• Improved text selection, copy and paste (editorial: About blasted time!)
• New connectivity options
• Updated set of standard apps (browser, camera & gallery, contacts, e-mail)