As a contributing author of more then 30 articles to developerWorks over the last few years, I'm super happy to see that at the 17th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards IBM developerWorks received The Jolt Hall of Fame award.

I find the developerWorks editors and technical staff to be both easy and fun to work with. I know what kind of work goes into getting the content out there, and they have a lot of content. And I'm not just an author, I'm also a user.



More information: http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/moc?entry=dw_wins_jolt_hall_of

In an interesting discussion today (can't really remember how we got there) I remembered one of the best illustrations of context-driven analysis I've seen in a movie. It was in The Messenger where Dustin Hoffman challenges Joan of Arc in how she found a sword in a field. Every time I watch it, I think of how easy it is to fall into the same trap Joan falls into when we see a problem.

My wife and I also watched a movie more directly related to testing tonight, Man of the Year. Even though the software and software testing shown in the movie certainly leave you wanting more (what do you expect, it's Hollywood) the movie does a great job of showing an ethical problem for a tester. I really enjoyed that aspect of the movie.