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Silicon chips are in short supply, ports are congested, and as a result new cars are expensive. The shortage of new cars has more people buying used, and as a result, used cars are fetching ridiculously high prices as well. The same phenomenon of supply shortages and logistics bottlenecks have been playing out across lots of basics, manufacturing and agricultural industries for months now.

At the same time, we have M2 money supply like we’ve never seen. All that cash is pursuing few investment opportunities, which bids them up. Excess liquidity seeking returns has inflated assets from designer watches to…

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We have just released another new cool feature for the App.FunRetrospectives.com: login. Now it’s possible to login with your Google ID, so you can: easy access to your boards and your groups seamless access from any device  keep track of past retrospectives  Besides that, all retrospectives you create and participate are automatically saved into your […]

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Many users of Selenium WebDriver may be using the PageFactory created by Simon Stewart. However, it is not a good idea to use it.

You may be thinking why should I not use it? It is so easy to use it, and its popular.

Well, here are 2 reasons why you should not use the PageFactory:

Reason #1. Simon Stewart (https://twitter.com/shs96c), the creator of WebDriver, and the PageFactory himself says, do not use it. It is not recommended.

The `FindsBy` annotation isn't recommended, because the PageFactory class is really badly implemented and inflexible, but it's not…

Em uma organização que não quer mais perder tempo e recursos ao colocar suas ideias em ação, fazer uso da Lean Inception é fundamental. Com ela, há melhorias não apenas na forma como o trabalho é realizado, o qual se torna ágil e permite a construção de produtos eficazes e de acordo com as reais […]

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Somehow I have a weak spot for screen savers, for writing screen savers that is. The combination of programming, maths, and beauty is just very appealing to me. So, when Thoughtworks went through the brand refresh last summer I took that as an invitation to write a new company screen saver. (I had written the previous ones, too.) The new screen saver animates one of the illustrations that were created as part of the brand refresh.

It is written in Swift but this time I didn't go for the low-level Metal graphics APIs. Instead, I used a higher-level abstraction…

For a long time Eberhard Wolff has been hosting the Software Architektur series. In episode 104 Eberhard and I talk about DevSecOps, one of my favourite topics at the moment. Please note the conversation is in German.

Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd complete their article on infrastructure platforms with a warning on over-complicating a platform and a section on how to use the Four Key Metrics to assess a platform's success.

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A 2002 article by Michael Feathers. This article introduced the idea of dealing with a hard-to-test GUI behavior by minimizing the behavior within the GUI element, moving as much as possible to a separate object that’s easier to test. This idea was generalized into the Humble Object pattern.

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