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My presentation at Wurbe#5

Wurbe is the informal web developers meeting group, from Bucharest Romania. Meeting #5 was focused on automated testing (unit, TDD, BDD, other stuff). This is my presentation:

Figure of the day : 350

Recently, an Indian poster on a Slashdot thread ('India Outsourcers Find Back Door in Canada') mentioned that:

Software Developers in India (including me) are paid 350 times the prevailing minimum wage in India.
I thought it would be interesting to make a comparison with the same data in Europe:

in a country such as France, this makes 402.640EUR/month.
in [...]

The long hand of RIAA or simple plain dumbness ?

Went with my wife yesterday to see Master & Commander at Hollywood Multiplex, the only cinema multiplex in Bucharest (that is, until June 2004 when they'll finish the one that they're building just 500m away from where I live, which supposedly is a positive thing). It's a great movie, less haunted by the usual clichés [...]