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We provide consulting to help you identify, install, use, and manage the applications that make your team more productive and your code higher quality. </p> <p class="text_light"> Our aim is to significantly reduce the ramp up time needed for software development projects and eliminate the distractions of learning and maintaining third party applications. </p> <p class="text_light"> We can host these tools for you, or help deploy them within your organization. We can also customize open source applications to fit your needs, or develop custom solutions for your problems. </p> <p class="text_light"> We also offer the following services: </p> <ul class="text_light"> <li> requirements analysis & documentation </i> <li> test authoring and execution </li> <li> automation </li> <li> unit and functional test development </li> <li> website development and hosting </li> <li> build and deployment management </li> <li> QA process training and evaluation</li> </ul> <p class="text_light"> <a class="graylink" href="/contact/services">Contact us</a> for more information. </p> <p class="text_light"> One Shore maintains a wiki of software testing and development tools and techniques. We hope you will contribute and share your knowledge with us and other professionals. We also periodically publish articles and product reviews about software development and testing. If you have used or written a tool you would like us to review, please let us know and we will be glad to add it to the list. If you would like to submit an article, see our <a class="graylink" href="submit_article.php">submission guidelines</a>. <p class="text_light"> Coming soon... <br/><br/>Hosted QA sites with a variety of tools from version control to bug tracking with an integrated dashboard. Please <a class="graylink" href="/contact/sales/qa-site">let us know</a> if you are interested in participating in our beta program. </p> <p class="text_light"> <img src="images/blank.gif" style="width: 300px; height: 6px"/> </p> </td> </tr> </table>    <div> <b class="outer"> <b class="outer1"><b></b></b> <b class="outer2"><b></b></b> <b class="outer3"></b> <b class="outer4">  <b class="inner1" style="margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;"> <b class="innerfg"></b> </b> </b> <b class="outer5">  <b class="inner2" style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;"> <b class="innerfg"></b> </b> </b> </b> <div class="outerfg">  <div style="padding-right: 2px; padding-left: 2px"> <b class="inner">  <b class="inner3"></b> <b class="inner4"></b> <b class="inner5"></b> </b> <div class="innerfg">    <table style="border: 0; margin: 0; padding-left: 4; padding-right: 4; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-left: 0 5px 0 5px"> <p class="heading_light"> News </p> <div class="subheading_light"> <span style="color: orange">January 9, 2008</span> <span> -- </span> <span style="color: white; font-style: normal">Internship program</span> <br/> </div> <p class="text_light"> One Shore is looking for interns for our office in Cuenca, Ecuador. See our <a href="internship">announcement</a>. </p> <br/> <div class="subheading_light"> <span style="color: orange">December 15, 2007</span> <span> -- </span> <span style="color: white; font-style: normal">Free QA Site Offer</span> <br/> </div> <p class="text_light"> In order to gain better insight into what our customers want and need, One Shore has announced a 90 day free QA site Virtual Server to qualifying organizations that are willing to give us feedback. Not only do you get a free Virtual Server with quality open source applications pre-installed, but you'll also have dedidated support from One Shore because we want to know what we can do to improve or service. There is no obligation to continue after the 90 days. </p> <br/> <a href="#" onClick="expand('news_more'); return false;">more...</a> <div id="news_more" style="display: none"> <br/> <div class="subheading_light"> <span style="color: orange">December 12, 2007</span> <span> -- </span> <span style="color: white; font-style: normal">Tools Wiki and Forums</span> <br/> </div> <p class="text_light"> One Shore has started a new tools wiki covering both open source and proprietary development and testing tools. Support forums and Q&A covering all tools are also available. We hope you will share your knowledge with the community here. </p> <br/> <div class="subheading_light"> <span style="color: orange">November 30, 2007</span> <span> -- </span> <span style="color: white; font-style: normal">New Site Design</span> <br/> </div> <p class="text_light"> OneShore.com has a new site design and content. I had a chance to mess around with some tricky CSS. Check out the rounded corners, no javascript and no images. Needed to use javascript for the menus, but they should degrade gracefully on browsers with javascript disabled, they're just <ul>'s. Needs testing on older browsers still. </p> <br/> <div class="subheading_light"> <span style="color: orange">November 12, 2007</span> <span> -- </span> <span style="color: white; font-style: normal">Bug Tracking Demos</span> <br/> </div> <p class="text_light"> Live demos of the bug tracking tools Bugzilla and Mantis are available for evaluations at <a href='http://demo.one-shore.com/'>http://demo.one-shore.com</a>. Contact us for access to the demos. </p> <br/> <div class="subheading_light"> <span style="color: orange">November 6, 2007</span> <span> -- </span> <span style="color: white; font-style: normal">DVR Cameras Installed at OSSO</span> <br/> </div> <p class="text_light"> I Set up a security camera network for the new OSSO site. <a href='http://orphanagesupport.org'>OrphanageSupport.org</a> is a great organization and we're glad to help them out. The new orphanage is beautiful and they should be moving in anyday now. Kelsey volunteered as the OSSO sites coordinator in 2004 and that's a major reason we're back in Cuenca. </p> <br/> <div class="subheading_light"> <span style="color: orange">October 15, 2007</span> <span> -- </span> <span style="color: white; font-style: normal">Arrived in Cuenca, Ecuador</span> <br/> </div> <p class="text_light"> In the next few weeks I'll need to find a place to stay, settle in, set up an office, and get internet access. We'll be looking for partners here and hope to build an Ecuadorian test team. Other plans include computer training classes and Spanish lessons for me. Kelsey will teach English and work at the orphanages. </p> <br/> <div class="subheading_light"> <span style="color: orange">August 12, 2007</span> <span> -- </span> <span style="color: white; font-style: normal">One Shore Inc</span> <br/> </div> <p class="text_light"> One Shore is officially in business. All the necessary paperwork is filled out and we are now a legal Washington state corporation with a Business License, Tax Identification Number, Articles of Incorporation, and registered Trademark. </p> <br/> </div> </td> </tr> </table>    </div>   <b class="inner"> <b class="inner5"></b> <b class="inner4"></b> <b class="inner3"></b>  </b> </div>  </div>   <b class="outer"> <b class="outer5">  <b class="inner2" style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;"> <b class="innerfg"></b> </b> </b> <b class="outer4">  <b class="inner1" style="margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;"> <b class="innerfg"></b> </b> </b> <b class="outer3"></b> <b class="outer2"><b></b></b> <b class="outer1"><b></b></b> </b> </div>   </div> </td> <td style="vertical-align: top"> <div style="position: relative; top: +4px; width: 265px;">   <div> <b class="outer_orange"> <b class="outer_orange1"><b></b></b> <b class="outer_orange2"><b></b></b> <b class="outer_orange3"></b> <b class="outer_orange4">  <b class="inner_orange1" style="margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;"> <b class="inner_orangefg"></b> </b> </b> <b class="outer_orange5">  <b class="inner_orange2" style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;"> <b class="inner_orangefg"></b> </b> </b> </b> <div class="outer_orangefg">  <div style="padding-right: 2px; padding-left: 2px"> <b class="inner_orange">  <b class="inner_orange3"></b> <b class="inner_orange4"></b> <b class="inner_orange5"></b> </b> <div class="inner_orangefg">    <div id="offer" style=" margin: 0 5px 0 5px"> <table style="border: 0; margin: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; padding: 5px"> <div> <a href="/services/qa-site#offer" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: orange">Free QA Site</a> </div> <div> <a href="/services/qa-site#offer" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: orange; text-decoration: none"> 90 day trial <p class="text_light" style="text-align: center; color: #EEEEEE"> We are looking for organizations willing to help improve our services. 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The idea is a common API and sort of cross compiler to be able to port to the variety of different mobile devices. <a href="#" onClick="expand('android_more'); return false;">more...</a> <div id="android_more" class="text_light" style="display: none"> <br/><br/> It looks like they use a custom branch the Apache JDK fork, an eclipse plugin with mobile device simulator, and a tool that takes java bytecode and transforms it to native code for the target device. I'm not really into mobile development, but of course it'd be fun if I ever had the time. And Android's the big buzz on the internet this week. <br/><br/> Here's a good description from ONLamp: <br/> <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/11/12/google-calling-inside-the-gphone-sdk.html">Inside the GPhone SDK</a> <br/><br/> And one developer's take on the API at JavaLobby: <br/> <a href="http://blog.jillesvangurp.com/2007/11/12/google-android/">Google Android</a> <br/><br/> The application market for mobile devices is potentially huge, but still strangled by the proprietary hold carriers and manufacturers have. Every so often a handheld Linux device comes out, get's press, and then fizzles because no matter how cool it is, if you can't make phone calls, or get music and games from the distributors, it's really just a toy. <br/><br/> Android is an attempt to work around it from the other way, via software. If this works, manufacturers & carriers will end up being more concerned about not breaking Android compatibility in order to have access to the open marketplace of applications, the way manufacturers want to be sure their hardware works with windows. Even if not, it just takes updating one "driver" to gain access to all the Android apps. </div> </p> <p class="heading_light"> Redstone Vine & Eggplant </p> <p class="text_light"> Redstone Software releases a port of VNC for MacOS X called <http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/index.html>Vine</a>. <a href="#" onClick="expand('redstone_more'); return false;">more...</a> <div id="redstone_more" class="text_light" style="display: none"> If you have to admin Macs remotely, this is a real blessing. VNC has been a great stop for supporting users, especially servers that are either locked down or administered by less technically savvy individuals. <br/><br/> They also have a testing automation tool called <a href="http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/purple/index.html">Eggplant</a>. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I'm definitely interested. I think it uses VNC to drive their automation, as as such, is neutral about things from Flash to Swing to Curses. Definitely not the easiest or necessarily most reliable way to do it, but sometimes you need to go the low tech route. </div> </p> <p class="heading_light"> Radiohead and Open Source </p> <p class="text_light"> Bill Burke, of JBoss (now Redhat), has an interesting <a href="http://bill.burkecentral.com/2007/11/07/radiohead-and-open-source/">post</a> on his blog about Radiohead's experimental release of their new album </i>In Rainbows</i>. <a href="#" onClick="expand('radiohead_more'); return false;">more...</a> <div id="radiohead_more" class="text_light" style="display: none"> They apparently bypassed the record label and offered the album directly on the internet, with no DRM. There is an "order form" where purchasers name the amount (in pounds & pence) they're willing to pay, if anything, and then are given a link to the download, in zipped MP3 format. <br/><br/> He quotes from a <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7082627.stm>BBC article</a> with some interesting statistics (and asinine conclusions.) He rightly points out that if open source projects were as wildly successful failures as Radiohead's album, they'd be very profitable indeed. Of the 1.2 million visitors to the site (no number given for number of downloads), only 38% chose to pay. But the average price paid (including those who chose to pay zero, I assume) was over $6. <br/><br/> It was said that the break even point per download was $1.50, which is not accurate, unless someone is getting a royalty. The download costs themselves couldn't amount to more than a few pennies per, and granted that overhead (development, hosting, etc.) might bring the total to $1.50 per, it scales. At some number, (say 1.2 million), $1.50 per is the total cost including overhead, and at any past that point, the cost per download reduces by at least 95%. <br/><br/> I do, however, suspect that some distributor agreed to make it available for something like $1.50 per download royalty, which is 3 times Apple's 49 cents royalty for iTunes. Fair enough, given the high risk of such a completely DRM free download. So Radiohead may have a fixed cost of $1.50 per download, and some other distributor took the gamble of needing some number (say 1.2 million) of downloads to break even, though in a competitive marketplace I am sure that others could do it for less of a royalty at a smaller volume and still profit. <br/><br/> Regardless, no artist on earth has ever gotten $4.50 per record, or it's rough equivalent 25% of gross sales. If you assume 1 in 10 visitors downloaded the album --and there is no reason to believe it is not higher, since there was only a brief form to fill out and an unencumbered download-- then they've managed a cool half million in sales in the first month. Not too shabby, and probably in line with their most popular albums. <br/><br/> I suspect as the marketplace opens up that the price will go down, and perhaps even the biggest bands with the most loyal followings will only net a few hundred thousand dollars in such a scheme, and that the "labels" that promote them, taking the volume risk, will be happy with even a 10% margin of that. <br/><br/> A popular band will still make millions on concerts and merchandise, physical items where the rules of scale apply less than a half million or so electronic bits reproduced nearly infinitely. <br/><br/> On a final note, the BBC published a quote claiming that Radiohead (and their fans) are stealing from the record label, because "Radiohead have been bankrolled by their former label for the last 15 years." And while Radiohead might not have gotten famous without the marketing of the label, the label did very good by them, and the opposite is obviously true: that Radiohead has been bankrolling the label for most of the last 15 years. <br/><br/> </div> </p> </td> </tr> </table>    </div>   <b class="inner"> <b class="inner5"></b> <b class="inner4"></b> <b class="inner3"></b>  </b> </div>  </div>   <b class="outer"> <b class="outer5">  <b class="inner2" style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;"> <b class="innerfg"></b> </b> </b> <b class="outer4">  <b class="inner1" style="margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;"> <b class="innerfg"></b> </b> </b> <b class="outer3"></b> <b class="outer2"><b></b></b> <b class="outer1"><b></b></b> </b> </div>   </div> <div style="position: relative; top: +16px; width: 265px;">   <div> <b class="outer_orange"> <b class="outer_orange1"><b></b></b> <b class="outer_orange2"><b></b></b> <b class="outer_orange3"></b> <b class="outer_orange4">  <b class="inner_orange1" style="margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;"> <b class="inner_orangefg"></b> </b> </b> <b class="outer_orange5">  <b class="inner_orange2" style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;"> <b class="inner_orangefg"></b> </b> </b> </b> <div class="outer_orangefg">  <div style="padding-right: 2px; padding-left: 2px"> <b class="inner_orange">  <b class="inner_orange3"></b> <b class="inner_orange4"></b> <b class="inner_orange5"></b> </b> <div class="inner_orangefg">    <div id="offer" style=" margin: 0 5px 0 5px"> <table style="border: 0; margin: 0; padding-left: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; padding: 5px"> <div> <a href="/contact/partners" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: orange">Wanted: Telecommuters</a> </div> <div> <a href="/services/qa-site#offer" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: orange; text-decoration: none"> <p class="text_light" style="text-align: center; color: #EEEEEE"> Are you or do you want to be an independent consultant? <br/><br/> One Shore is looking to partner with professionals around the globe. 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