[WFH] The Best April Fool's Pranks - Make Your Co-Workers Laugh Online
Hi Community! Since a lot of us are working from home, switching buttons on co-workers keyboards won’t happen. We need some nice online pranks for April 1. Nothing mean though, just something that will make your friends laugh. I found several things I thought were funny. Some of them are old Google pranks, like: Send this link to a friend Or this Or even this Also, I’ve found the weirdest and most hilarious things to cheer my friends up: How about a nice image of a horse? Kittens always make people smile! This website is relevant for 364 (or even 365) days a year. If you are fond of technical jokes, you may want to modify a response in the API call you do in ReadyAPI or start Notepad on the computer of your co-worker by using TestComplete’s Network Suite feature. Also, I’m sure a lot of you are using Zoom. You can make your co-workers laugh by setting up a funny background. There are many options here. Feel free to share these with friends of co-workers on April 1! Got anymore ideas how make friendly pranks online? Share with the Community![WFH] Online Entertainment - What to Do When Working From Home?
Now, many online services provide online access (and even for free!) to their resources. How do you entertain yourself when 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 a list of entertainment services available online to lift your spirits! We have 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 Russia is streaming live performances each Sunday. The Berliner Philharmoniker opens 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 Opera offers free streams available for 23 hours. It’s a great chance to see world-famous performances sitting at home! Online Cinemas And, not only theaters and operas are making generous offers for the WFH team! Netflix is no doubt the king of movie streaming. 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 try Criterion. 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 the Good Old Games portal that will last till March 30. In case you forgot, Epic Store keeps 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. Share here 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 on not to get bored! Keeping yourself entertained is important under quarantine. But work from home is also a great opportunity to learn. We have prepared a list of online resources to help you brush up testing/coding skills and more. If you already know some great resources, please share them with us! Let’s start. Books and libraries We’ve found a couple of books and resources that 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 will have an audio version of this book for free). Dear Evil Tester - a peculiar book for testers with an intriguing concept and a lot of humor. Did you know that we have a community member, karkadil , who actually wrote a whole book about TestComplete called TestComplete Cookbook? Definitely check it out! New York Public Library now provides remote access to its resources. What great learning books would you recommend? Courses A lot of learning platforms are now offering discounts or even providing courses for free for a limited time period. TestComplete On-Demand Video course is now free for 30 days thanks to our partner LinoTadros. Awesome news for UI testers! SmartBear Academy - this is where you can learn SmartBear products for free! We offer exclusive training courses for users with different levels of expertise. Udemy offers huge discounts for its bestseller courses and great free courses. Might be the right time to give them a go and improve your expertise: Groovy | Step by Step for Beginners Learn to Program in Javascript: Beginner to Pro Coursera offers a plethora of awesome courses on Data Science you can enroll for free. If Machine learning or Data Analysis is something you’ve always wanted to put your mind to, now is the best time: Machine Learning Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis Algorithms Part 1 and Algorithms Part 2 Getting Started with AWS Machine Learning Applied Machine Learning in Python Blogs/Podcasts TestGuild - a very useful twitter account that gathers QA industry news, blogs and podcasts in one place. Code for a Living - a great blogs and podcasts collection on Stack Overflow for coders. SwaggerBlog – a blog about API Design, API development and API Documentation! Testing Podcast – probably the biggest library of podcasts for testers. Found anything useful and educational online these days? Share it with your fellow SmartBear Community members😊 It can be something not linked directly to testing. Anything that falls under the ‘self-development’ category works. Let’s learn together!
