Working from home? How is it?
Howdy, Day N. Still working from home. I turned out that I can cook! And even wash the dishes:smileyhappy: It’s almost as relaxing as going home from work through the park. Also, I’ve found out what my cat does while I am away all day. Nothing. He literally sleeps for 10 hours straight. On the bright side – my Zoom meetings have a great background now - my cat. During video calls all my colleagues can see him sleeping on the back of the armchair:cathappy: So many of us are working remotely nowadays. Some already got used to it. For me (and for many people, I suppose) this is a brand-new experience. Let’s try helping each other out by sharing advice and our personal experience of how to make working from home more productive and, more importantly, comfortable. Leave your comments here: What are the best practices of working remotely?[WFH] The Best April Fool's Pranks - Make Your Co-Workers Laugh Online
Hi Community! Since a lot of us areworking fromhome, switching buttons onco-workerskeyboardswon’t happen. We need some nice online pranks for April 1. Nothingmeanthough, just something that will make your friends laugh. I found several things I thought were funny. Some of them are oldGoogle pranks, like: Send this link to a friend Or this Or even this Also, I’ve found the weirdest and most hilarious things to cheermyfriends up: How abouta nice image of a horse? Kittensalways make people smile! This websiteisrelevantfor364 (or even 365) days a year. If you arefondof technical jokes, you may want tomodify a responsein the API call you do inReadyAPIorstartNotepad on the computer of your co-worker by usingTestComplete’s Network Suite feature. Also, I’m sure alotof you are usingZoom. You canmakeyour co-workerslaughby setting up a funny background.There are many optionshere. Feel free to share these with friends of co-workers on April 1! Gotanymoreideas howmakefriendly pranks online?Share with the Community![WFH] Online Entertainment - What to Do When Working From Home?
Now, many online services provide online access (and evenforfree!) to their resources. How doyou entertain yourselfwhen working from home (WFH)these days? Share your favorite resources with the Community! Sitting at home can be rather exciting! You don’t believe us? Let us prove it to you😉We have prepared alist of entertainment services available online to lift yourspirits!Wehave something for everyone. Theaters and Operas The world’s best theaters are opening their online doors! The Bayerische Staatsoper– one of the world’s leading opera houses made video recordings of the performances available for two weeks. The Bolshoi Theatre of Russiais streaming live performances each Sunday. The Berliner Philharmonikeropens the Digital Concert Hall for everyone.Use the BERLINPHIL promocode by 31 March to get free access to all concerts and films from its archive. The Metropolitan Operaoffers free streams available for 23 hours. It’s a great chance to see world-famousperformancessitting at home! Online Cinemas And, not only theaters and operas are making generous offersfor the WFH team! Netflixis no doubt the king of moviestreaming.It has an extensive library of movies and series and a free 30-day subscription. A great way to spend your free time at home with a steaming cup of coffee or tea! If you are into art-house and enjoy more intricate movies, you can tryCriterion. A huge collection of movies for movie-lovers. They only have a 14-day trial, but the movie library is really impressive. Who knows, you might become a real cinema expert when the quarantine is over! The following online services are extending their free offering to 30 days:Acorn(code: FREE30),Sundance Now(code: SUNDANCENOW30), and the place all horror lovers know -Shudder(code: SHUTIN). Games If you are into gaming, you might enjoy these quarantine deals: A huge discount on theGood Old Gamesportal that willlast till March 30. In case you forgot,Epic Storekeeps giving away two games per week! Till March 26 Watch Dogs and The Stanley Parable (a reminder of the office life!) are free of charge. Sports Let’s boost our immune system while working from home! Here’s a great non-profit platform with exercise videos for you-YMCA 360. Also, our local fitness and yoga centers are doing a great job by quickly transforming into online classes! Is this also the case where you are from? No time to be bored! We hope that everyone finds something their like on this list. Do you have any specific local online resources you enjoy? We have community members all around the world.Sharehere what you do in you spare time:smileyhappy:[WFH] Online Learning – Best Resources for Testers
Hi Community! Since a lot of us are still working from home, we decided to give your brain something to chew onnot to get bored! Keeping yourself entertained is important under quarantine. But work from homeis also a great opportunity to learn. We have prepared a list ofonlineresourcesto help you brush up testing/coding skillsand more.If you alreadyknowsome great resources, please share them with us! Let’s start. Booksand libraries We’ve found a couple of booksand resourcesthat sound promising: The DevOps Handbook:: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations- a good DevOps read (if you get a 30-day Audible trial you willhave an audio version of this bookfor free). Dear Evil Tester- a peculiar book for testers with an intriguing concept and a lot ofhumor. Did you know that we have a communitymember, karkadil,whoactually wrote awholebook aboutTestCompletecalledTestComplete Cookbook?Definitely check it out! New York Public Librarynow provides remote access to its resources. Whatgreat learning bookswould you recommend? Courses A lot of learning platforms are now offering discounts or evenproviding courses forfree for a limited time period. TestComplete On-Demand Video courseis now free for 30 days thanks to our partnerLinoTadros. Awesome news for UI testers! SmartBear Academy- this is where you can learnSmartBearproducts for free! We offer exclusive training courses for users with different levels of expertise. Udemy offers huge discounts for its bestseller coursesand great free courses.Might be the righttimeto give them a goand improve your expertise: Groovy | Step by Step for Beginners Learn to Program inJavascript: Beginner to Pro Courseraoffers a plethora of awesome courses on Data Scienceyou can enrollfor free.If Machinelearning or Data Analysis issomething you’ve always wanted to put your mind to, now is the best time: MachineLearning Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis Algorithms Part 1andAlgorithms Part 2 Getting Started with AWS Machine Learning Applied Machine Learning in Python Blogs/Podcasts TestGuild - a very useful twitter account that gathersQAindustry news, blogs and podcasts in one place. Code for a Living- a great blogs and podcasts collectionon Stack Overflow forcoders. SwaggerBlog– a blog about API Design, API development and API Documentation! Testing Podcast–probablythe biggest library of podcasts for testers. Found anythinguseful and educational onlinethese days?Shareitwith your fellowSmartBearCommunity members😊 It can be something not linked directly to testing. Anything that falls under the ‘self-development’ category works. Let’s learn together!API Masterminds Talks – What are the best practices of working remotely?
Hi everyone! Here’s a new topic for discussion for our API Masterminds event – working from home. This is a burning question for millions of people all over the globe. Share your thoughts and opinions on how to work from home successfully! I’ll start by sharing a bit of my own experience: What I’ve learned about working remotely is however tempting it may be to get out of bed and go straight to your PC, it is way better to actually carry on with your morning routine: wake up early, cook wholesome breakfast, workout. Otherwise you will feel lazy, sleepy and not productive for the rest of the day. What are your tips to make working remotely as efficient as possible?
