Vague statements and labels, one-sided evaluations, surprises, and secondhand complaints are just the sorts of things that can make a person want to run away screaming from an annual performance evaluation—probably not the best career move. In this article, Esther Derby offers some tips for dealing with these situations in a calm and collected manner.

Agile, and more recently lean, have dramatically shaped the landscape of software development practices. The reason is simple, they both promise to deliver higher quality products to the market faster. In this artilce, we examine some of these agile and lean promises separately and explore when one set may be a better fit over the other or how they may be combined.

In "Growing Your Career in Tough Times," Fiona Charles writes about some of the free and low-cost things testers can do for professional development when money isn't available for courses and conferences. In this column, she describes two examples of the amazing things some testers get up to on the weekend to practice their craft, develop their skills and knowledge, and have a great deal of fun.

This article describes the process of initial configuration and basic work with the Palm Web OS on a lower level than what's described in the Palm SDK documents. The author also discusses how to install and configure Mojo SDK and how to work with FTP on Palm Pre.