How to start your career as a software tester?

Hi there!
I guess it's time for me to start write some articles about software testing. As first, I think, it will be some article for fresh testers, about, how to get first job.
So, you are young specialist, maybe not so young, but fresh junior and you don't have any practical experience in testing, and all companies wants at least one year of experience. So, what to do in this case? Where to receive some exp? You can ask yourself - where I can get that 1 year if everyone want a year?
Answer is very simple, and if you are don't know it, hm, think again, or, you can read this article, of course.
Ok, you have some basic knowledge, but not work exp. Then, if you want to get it, you must look for open source projects and ask for a participation, or, you can look for other projects, not only for open source, and join them. This is a perfect solution for a junior tester! You can find these projects on different sites, forums or by friends. For example, you can look for these projects at GitHub, or CodePlex, or, at a lot of different resources, these two are just most popular, but you are free to choose. Next, you can practice your skills of testing by these projects and join to new, also it will be very hopeful to do some blogging, so a lot of people will know about you, and in what projects you are working on. As for me this is very easy and hopeful!
By the way, this is good idea not only for testers, but for a lot of others professions!
So, as you see, this is not a big article, but you got one, but very important advice from here, so, use it!

MS SQL Server vs Oracle! Epic choice!

And now a little bit fun from databases holly war - which is better? MS SQL Server or Oracle? Just look :)

Of course, all of this is just for fun, and you might say that your postgreSQL is the best DB ever! :)

Java tutorial for beginners by Yuriy Tkach. Very interesting and useful, btw

Hi there!
If you are new to programming, especially in Java, than you MUST see this video tutorial from one great man - Yuriy Tkach. But I must warn you! All of this good stuff are in Russian, so, if you know Russian, than you must check his youtube channel, there you will find more videos about java programming.
Hope, sometime, Yuriy will start to record his tutorial in English :)

Testing Windows 8 apps using Visual Studio 2012

Do you want to know how and what to test in Windows 8 apps?
If yes, here is good article about testing win8 apps using VS 2012

Will Windows 8 save a PC?

Here is good article from Mashable about upcoming Windows 8 and situation on the PC market.

Visual Studio Ultimate 2012: Load testing applications in Visual Studio

Shot for Android. First steps

I decided to try some mobile development, as I know some Java and as I know, first mobile operating system is Android, also I've Galaxy S, so, why not?
I want to create some simple app for Android, nothing complex, just simple app.
So, first of all we need to install SDK! Here you can read official guide from Google, how to install sdk.
Finally, here you can try to build your first android application!

Profit show 27: Peter Sunde, co-founder The Pirate Bay, Flattr and activist

Here, in Ukraine, we've a great web site for developers - DOU! He is on Russian lang, unfortunately, but his owner, Max Ischenko made a new episode of his Profit show in English, with special guest in this episode - Peter Sunde. Peter is one who create the Pirate Bay! Are you interested? If yes - enjoy!

From me, I wish to Max don't stop and make a DOU the most best place for developers! Good luck Max, you are on the right way!

Basic JScript tutorial

Oh, I thought I'll never say something like that, but I don't have enough time for writing posts here(((
But I remember my promise! I'll post here different, but very useful information about software testing! Yes, I will!
So, for today I have a good tutorial for you and as I might found out, it's about JScript. No, this is not a JavaScript! This is JScript, scripting language which is very similar to JS.
If you are interested, follow the link!
For today that's all