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| week 3 - philosophical background of the OER movement |
| 2008-03-17 13:01:36 |
Assignment for this week: read mostly articles on Wikipedia (WP), discuss them, e.g. show similarities and differences
I think I will start with the German WP articles first and read then the English ones - I guess with this I can help also WP: optimize both articles perhaps, at least get more info, …
Continue reading [...]...
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| Where is Erkan ? |
| 2007-10-06 06:13:17 |
Friends certainly wonder: Where is Erkan ?
I am taking a break (again). At the moment I am fullfilling an old dream of mine: I am reading a book (see here) together with secondary literature.
And this demands a lot of time (looking up facts, making notes, thinking on what you just read,…)
and I must [...]...
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| How does it feel to be a guinea pig ? |
| 2007-09-13 08:41:39 |
I just watched the video of our online session with Elisabeth Hendrickson. Though we had at the begin technical problems, this did not stop us: it was fun, we laughed a lot (to answer the question above). We were 6 persons and I guess this is what made the online virtual training experiment so [...]...
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| When did you read ALOUD the last time ? |
| 2007-08-11 19:24:01 |
I am reading a foreign language book - aloud.
I remember the last time reading aloud - over a longer period of time - was in school, when we read set books in class.
Why am I doing this now (again) ?
Perhaps to get more of my senses activated ? Could also be because of the [...]...
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| Did you read already the Birbal tales ? |
| 2007-07-29 12:58:14 |
I agree fully to Pradeep’s comment about the Birbal stories. They are so smart, funny, addictive, …
So, if you didn’t buy the book yet, you missed a chance.
If you want to buy it also for your team here are some arguments to convince people who do not believe it is a book for/about [...]...
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| 8-year-olds should test my code |
| 2007-07-28 20:29:35 |
Another example for the category playing and asking questions:
I had played with … for two weeks and hadn’t made it crash once. Brian brought the whole thing down in three commands.
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If only I could get a room filled with 8-year-olds to test my code.
Read Michael’s whole story here.
BTW Michael: if the mountain will [...]...
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| Are you a fairy? |
| 2007-07-22 16:43:53 |
… Ofelia - a little girl - asks this to a creature.
Her mother in contrast does not believe in the mystical world:
“Fairy tales - you are a bit too old to fill your head with such nonsense” she tells Ofelia.
Well, I (Erkan) can tell: NO and I recommend you all to watch this movie.
The [...]...
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| What kind of sweets do you share with your team ? |
| 2007-07-15 07:23:19 |
So, this week I will surprise my team with …
… some other sweets than usual (this time I bought a 1 kg package). I hope this lasts longer and I am also curious if they like them.
People might now perhaps talk on the effects for the quality of work or other issues, but it [...]...
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| Helping open source software - what is your progress ? |
| 2007-07-12 16:47:33 |
I asked exactly 2 months ago this question:
When was the last time you helped to make Source">open source software better ?
So, what did you do since then ?
I have decided to e.g. help these projects primarily in my free time:
ClamWin -
a free antivirus tool (with support from ClamAV)
Pardus -
a Linux distribution (includes many things, [...]...
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| Why don’t you use Pardus ? |
| 2007-07-08 09:34:14 |
My brother is a great fan of the Linux distribution Pardus (Pardus-Kurulan-2007.2-RC.iso) and I am a great fan of any sorts of cats (see picture at end of posting and my about page point 7).
So I thought, let my other Linux have another companion …
Truth is … I didn’t come so far initially. At [...]...
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| Should I go 64 bit? |
| 2007-07-05 12:47:39 |
… yes, I bought a 64 bit system. You want to know why ? Read here some of the arguments.
Imagine … this is cockaigne for any tester (so many training possibilities to discover bugs).
When do you want to buy one ? Well, the whole thing makes more fun with a 64 bit operating system [...]...
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| How do you spend your precious time ? Me… |
| 2007-05-24 14:12:30 |
…I am reading at the moment a foreign-language book.
This is challenging - both: the content and non-standard linguistical expressions.
And now you know, why I am at the moment not so much participating online (see here).
How long has it been since you were busy with a really challenging book ? (please do not reply here, [...]...
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| waiting for the battle to come and then making during that new friends… |
| 2007-05-20 16:15:53 |
Today we 4 (Andre, Erkan, Martin, Widodo) went to the park to play some table tennis. Well, since there were some already playing table tennis, we explored the playing machines nearby.
Here are some pictures:
I am boarding the carrousel:
ok, let’s make some speed to have fun:
hm, perhaps this was a little too much speed
ok, [...]...
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| Which children’s book did you like most as child ? |
| 2007-05-13 19:16:18 |
After reading Christian’s article addicted about his book-buying-adventure, I feel the need to also post about this topic. For my books-to-buy-list I am still searching for some children’s books. And the kid in me needs your help !
I have recently read Peter Pan and I am thinking about the next to be:
- Alice’s [...]...
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| A day in the park |
| 2007-05-13 18:23:38 |
When I looked in the morning outside I saw already Christian how he was learning (he has an exam on Tuesday).
(btw: you see also the place where I play table tennis - so, if you once drop by, let’s have a game)
Well, I could not let Chris learn all alone and learned with him:
Later [...]...
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| Sorry, I was busy with longhorn |
| 2007-05-09 18:51:59 |
Unfortunately I did not have much time lately to do my “normal” online tasks. I was busy with: Microsoft Windows Server (TM) Code Name “Longhorn” beta 3
I will catch up with you !
Erkan...
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| A tester’s screen saver |
| 2007-05-07 01:43:01 |
Pradeep created some time ago this screen saver “Heuristics and Testing” (download here).
I like the idea very much and here is now the opportunity to judge yourself.
BTW: it “… has been officially installed on all testers machines in 2 organizations in India so far.” (Pradeep Soundararajan)
needed OS: Win2K or XP
Here you can find the [...]...
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| What do you find out if you search for a translation of a German word ? |
| 2007-05-03 16:59:45 |
After Ben asked here if “square” and “Spießer” have the same meaning, I asked some online translation services. The translation of the German term “Spießer” revealed following:
I present the not-winners of the day for this specific term (I do not use term loser with purpose):
IATE (result)
Google Translator (result) and
Babelfish (result)
(or could be said following [...]...
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| Mirror, mirror on the wall: who can tell me what is a picker-upper ? |
| 2007-05-01 06:03:16 |
I was reading Ben’s article “Slogans are models“. And there appeared the term “picker-upper”, which I did not know.
I used my favorite service LEO first. But this did not help much (I could have worked me up from the verbs, but …). Then I used dictionary.com and I got an explanation (I hope it [...]...
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| made to stick (why some ideas survive and others die) |
| 2007-04-30 17:08:01 |
At the moment I am reading Made to Stick (why some ideas survive and others die) from the two brothers Chip and Dan Heath (I got this input from Frank).
(this is not the books cover - I am to blame for this selection)
So, you might now think: “What has this to do with testing [...]...
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| testing baton |
| 2007-04-26 18:45:33 |
I send this baton to blogs which cover the topic testing.
(this picture is by Mullenkedheim and is licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License, source: Flickr)
Testing in my view is not limited to software testing - for me testing involves asking questions. And everybody can ask questions (not only software testers).
Here are now [...]...
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| You want to know more about Erkan ? |
| 2007-04-25 01:32:01 |
Start with reading the blog and the questionnaire with my answers.
BTW: if this is not sufficient for you (e.g. for me this would not be sufficient), the most important thing - just ask.
Erkan YILMAZ...
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| introducing the new category: “playing and asking questions” |
| 2007-04-22 14:51:27 |
Today I created a new category: playing and asking questions
Here you will find my test reports - actually more correct - my game reports. Now you are certainly going to ask, why I then don’t call it “test reports” ?
Well, I want to show with this, that testing for me involves the aspect of [...]...
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| a few questions for the great firewall of China |
| 2007-04-22 10:27:12 |
Yesterday I asked the ‘great firewall of China’ a few questions. And the answers were interesting. Have a look HERE !
And today I wanted to check for a long domain name, but could not input it, because there is a limit of 75 characters in the input field
Well, I shortened it then to [...]...
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| very short use of swift browser and … |
| 2007-04-22 07:55:17 |
I read about the safari browser for mac. Since I do not have a mac, I am trying now Swift (which uses Apples Rendering Engine WebKit).
First experience: I could not download swift from the swift site:
Ok, the web is big and I found version 0.2 somewhere else.
I installed swift and then wanted to [...]...
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| Do you realize what comes out of your mouth? |
| 2007-04-18 18:01:20 |
A friend told me that I use one certain word (let’s call it xyz) very often. This would generate a certain kind of feeling for him. Since the communication is not face to face, I had no chance to see his mimic in these situations. Of course people perceive things different and pay attention [...]...
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| try to draw a cat |
| 2007-04-07 06:13:13 |
I wanted to draw a cat. But when trying this caused a problem. So, here is the picture, so you can judge for yourself:
As I see the problem is: I know what a cat is, but I could not imagine a cat. Could be because normally I do not have contacts to cats.
So, I [...]...
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| translation of some greetings and proverbs |
| 2007-04-07 03:20:14 |
At the moment the Languages of Europe group is collecting some greetings and proverbs in different (European) languages: see here.
So far the list contains 15 languages (sorted alphabetically) - 3 languages with sounds (marked with green color):
Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish Chilean, Turkish.
If you [...]...
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| Fairies can not do everything - can others? |
| 2007-04-06 09:25:58 |
At the moment I am reading Peter Pan (original edition title: Peter and Wendy) by J.M Barrie. There is an interesting place in the book when Peter, Wendy, John, Michael and Tinker Bell reach Neverland. The pirates can see them because of Tinker Bell’s light and they get the big gun out to let [...]...
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| Can I forget - to learn again from beginning? |
| 2007-04-06 06:07:47 |
Interesting title, isn’t it?
So far I thought I knew some things (there were also times, when I believed I knew many things). I also told from time to time the following Socrates saying: “I know that I do not know.” - without really understanding it.
I am reading at the moment children books, fairy tales [...]...
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| story telling and sound |
| 2007-04-05 21:52:47 |
I wanted to call someone by Google Talk. But the person was not available. So I heard the answering machine text - implemented on a Googlish way: “The person you are trying to reach isn’t available, please leave a message after the meep… MEEEEEP” (actually I talk in the following mainly about this MEEEEEP [...]...
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| story telling and pictures |
| 2007-04-01 07:41:34 |
I was searching German testing blogs - during this I found Frank Westphals blog and there I read some good things about story telling (btw: this is the Maytag repairman which Andy Goodman talks about in the podcast) and visual aspects of stories.
As Goodman tells: story telling is powerful, because of:
- the history as a [...]...
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| Translate to think more (TTM) |
| 2007-03-30 06:02:38 |
Before you read this, keep in mind, that I speak the German language better, because I grew up with it.
I try to give you as reader articles which are as good as possible (of course considering cost and value). Lately I have started to translate my English articles into German (reason here). While doing [...]...
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