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Here are my take-away notes from the first day of the Google Testing and Automation Conference.

Having my sister visit me here in Seattle provided a good excuse to do some local sightseeing — first by land and water with the Ducks of Seattle, then by air with Seattle Sea Planes.

Here are some take-away notes from the course on presenting data and information that Edward Tufte gave in Seattle on July 17.

Over the last few days several books from Manning Publications appear to have been added to Safari Books.

Spent this weekend at the Spring 2008 Pacific Northwest Software Symposium. Here are my notes (trimmed down to whatever I felt was new & noteworthy to me) and some general comments about the event.

I recently needed to add support for extracting data from Excel files (which are still ubiquitous in labs) to a Java application.

Blist is an interesting cross between a spreadsheet application and an interface to a proper database. The goal (I believe) is to allow mere mortals to create and share simple databases on the Web.