Friday, August 31, 2007

Quick Overview of Coordinated Universal Time by Scott Mitchell

This article, 'Using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to Store  Date/Time Values', by Scott Mitchell, provides the reader with a good working knowledge of why using UTC time is important.  As we begin spanning the globe, in a conquest of world domination, its been necessary for developers, business analysts, and yes, managers, to understand the significance of 'when' something happened, relative to a specific time zone and just as importantly, that we are prepared to deal with it. 

Scott's article provides a nice reference to pass around to get people jump started before delving into more technical gooeyness.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Testing Guidance

With the release of Performance Testing Guide for Web Applications I realized that there were a couple of testing related resources that I tend to refer to pretty consistently.   By listing them here I'm creating a 'favorites', of a sort, so that I can quickly get back to them. 

 

Reference Material

 

Tools