AutomatedTester

I manage the WebDriver work at Mozilla making Firefox work with Selenium. I can categorically State we haven’t killed Selenium. We, over the last few years, have invested more in Selenium than other browsers.

Selenium IDE no longer works in Firefox for a number of reasons; 1) Selenium IDE didn’t have a maintainer 2) Selenium IDE is a Firefox add on and Mozilla changed how adding worked. They did this for numerous security reasons.

Not everyone can give their time to do this so having a way to donate is awesome!

This is very common as some companies don't want to you disappear within 3 months of joining because they have spent a lot of money hiring you.

The year part of it is to make sure that they have "made back" their signing bonus.

I would do more calls but only where those more calls help with self describing.

REST interfaces should help the caller find what they want to do and how to do it.

In terms of paying for it as a user

SMS is more expensive to send. It normally costs around £0.03 per thousand to send emails when it costs around that to send that for 1 sms.

In terms as a provider

For GMail they tend to store an email at least 6x to make sure you never lose something. This means the cost of an email is actually 6kb plus all the cost to store, replicate and the electricity that goes with it. While with the SMS the provider is really cheap as it doesnt use that much bandwidth to send and receive it.

Slideshare is ok but I love using Prezi(http://www.prezi.com) for my presentations now. It allows me to make presentations that are really interesting and that keep people engaged. Since my audience tends to be developers/testers this can be difficult but having things move around without be "Death-by-powerpoint" movement its a winner!

I use my blog as my journal. I use it as a way to remembering all the good things that I do and sharing the mistakes that I have made.