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Contract Testing vs. Schema Validation: Know the Difference
If you asked ten software developers what a contract test is, you’d get twelve different answers. One might say that it’s something to do with schema validation. Another might say that it’s something to do with API specifications. Yet another might tell you that it’s got something to do with the legal profession and kindly ask you to stop bothering them with irrelevant questions. A few years ago, this confusion would have been endearing.
FTC Signals Continued Scrutiny Of Employee Non-Compete Agreements
Dykema are most popular: within Technology, Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences and Cannabis & Hemp topic(s) Takeaways The FTC's withdrawal of its broad non-compete ban does not signal a retreat from enforcement—in fact, the agency is sharpening its focus. Recent FTC actions show a clear shift toward targeted, case-by-case challenges to non-compete agreements deemed unfair or overbroad.
FTC Signals Continued Scrutiny of Employee Non-Compete Agreements
Takeaways The FTC’s withdrawal of its broad non-compete ban does not signal a retreat from enforcement—in fact, the agency is sharpening its focus. Recent FTC actions show a clear shift toward targeted, case-by-case challenges to non-compete agreements deemed unfair or overbroad. A new FTC complaint highlights the agency’s concern with blanket non-competes applied without regard to job role or responsibility.
Plugging Into the Future of API Contract Testing With Pact
Matt Fellows, Principal Product Manager of PactFlow and core maintainer of Pact, SmartBear, shares what the future looks like for contract testing with Pact. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are a double-edged sword. Their convenience of having a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating application software and creating rich user experiences is indisputable. As a result, they are continuing to proliferate as systems become ever more distributed.
Resilience Testing Nginx with Docker, dnsmasq and Muxy
September 22nd, 2015 Using Docker, dnsmasq and Muxy, we create a repeatable Nginx ecosystem that enables us to test its functionality, performance and resilience under a range of conditions. — Matthew Fellows — Nginx is arguably the best HTTP server and reverse proxy available – its super-fast, scales easily and you have lots of knobs and levers to tune it to your needs.
Mayweather-Pacquiao: Explosive Scandal Mushrooming
It did not take long, in fact, the current explosive and mushrooming scandal involving the principles and management teams in the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight started three weeks prior to the actual fight. When Manny Pacquiao injured his shoulder in training and subsequent testing including an MRI indicated that Pacman had suffered a torn rotator cuff, a choice had to be made. Two clear options were on the table.
Mayweather-Pacquiao: Ariza Fallout as Problems With Hands Persist
Final pre-fight notes for the imminent Mayweather-Pacquiao fight include ongoing Ariza fallout issues as problems with Money May’s hands persist. Consistent with same, in an unusual twist, Team Mayweather appears unusually sober and sedate, less given to the high rhetoric and bombast characterizing past engagements.
Mayweather: Selfish Beyond Measure
Ron Borges, the consensus king of boxing journalism, wrote a brilliant piece this past Wednesday detailing the contradictions that abound in the coming fight including would be holier-than-thou sports media giant ESPN for its condemnation of Mayweather’s reported physical abuse of women on the one hand and their hypocritical financial exploitation of Mayweather on the other.
Mayweather-Pacquiao: Possible Fix Forces Money May Bluff
The headline is glaring and ominous indeed; Mayweather-Pacquiao possible fix forces Money May bluff. Surely one jests, or worse. Say what one will about the self-styled best-ever, he is very bright and one step ahead of the curve. With four days until fight time there is an unseemly rumor gaining ground and growing in exponential terms.
Mayweather Camp: Unusually Calm, Upbeat and Poised for Destructive Combat
Latest word out of the Vegas-based Mayweather training camp is that Money May is, given the May 2 task at hand, unusually calm, upbeat and poised for destructive combat. Known to practice the art of neuro-linguistic programming, the repetition of positive-affirmations, Mayweather is finding a peaceful groove as the mantra and visualization of victory plays on repeat in his mind.
Hillary Clinton Meltdown Directed at Staff, Limbaugh and Hannity
Home » Hillary Clinton Meltdown Directed at Staff, Limbaugh and Hannity According to sources close to Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff, newly-announced candidate for president recently had an epic Clinton-esque meltdown over the disastrous roll-out of her campaign as well as, by implication, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity’s coverage of same. While choosing to remain anonymous for fear of obvious reprisal, the source described the mood among staffers as uptight and anxious.
Mayweather: The Objective Case for Best-Ever Status
The coming Mayweather-Pacquiao fight will set a number of records including live gate receipts, broadcast rights fees and pay per view purchases among others. The build-up to the fight is reminiscent of the first Ali-Frazier fight at the mecca of boxing, New York City’s Madison Square Garden. And while the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in no MSG it is, for this generation, the new mecca of the sweet-science.
Mayweather: Developing Surprising Power While Retaining Agility and Speed
Word out of Vegas continues to be Ariza’s relative success at growing Mayweather’s overall strength and agility in a boxing-consistent manner. The fear has been, amongst Mayweather insiders and observers, that Ariza’s training protocol might slow down the self-styled best-ever and negatively impact his in-ring speed. Those observing Money workout and spar note that, if anything, he appears to be developing surprising power while retaining his unparalleled timing, agility and speed.
Mayweather-Pacquiao Secret Training Strategy Spilling Out
As it turns out the well-guarded secret training strategy for Mayweather-Pacquiao fight is spilling out. Roach himself spilled the beans, perhaps inadvertently, on the red carpet Wednesday. When pressed by an eager reporter about how training camp was going and the prospects for a Pacquiao victory Roach let it all hang out. He said that Mayweather likes to set traps and in so doing makes a fundamental mistake that leaves him open to a specific kind of counter.
Pacquiao/Mayweather: Service-Orientation and the Hedonist Ideal
In one corner stands one Manny Pacquiao, sober-minded, cerebral, meditative public servant. In the other corner stands one Floyd Mayweather Jr., superficial, flippant, self-serving seeker of carnal ecstasy. While Pacquiao is defined by an authentic service-orientation and is consumed with serving his fellow man, Mayweather by contrast, represents the hedonist ideal as he is consumed only with himself and the preservation of his kingly lifestyle.
Islamophobia and the Rise of Islamo-Bullying
Islam-bashing is in vogue these days. Turn on the TV or radio, pick up a newspaper or venture onto the Internet and you will find a curious trend; Islamophobia and the rise of its natural sibling, Islamo-bullying. As a neologism Islamo-bullying is suggestive of a new and dangerous geopolitical and western cultural trend. That is, civilized, seemingly thoughtful people, holding otherwise good and decent Muslims worldwide hostage to a narrow and altogether unjust view of Islam.
Mayweather Puppet-Master Al Haymon Stalls Pac Fight
News out of Vegas and the Philippines is that Pacquiao-Mayweather negotiations are continuing amid a growing and heated fan backlash. Emotions are running high as everyone, including the great and mighty of boxing both past and present, is coming out of the woodwork expressing dismay and disgust at the drawn out negotiations.
Pacquiao-Mayweather Negotiations Metaphor for Fight Itself
The Mayweather verses Pacquiao saga continues. Word out of Vegas and Los Angeles is that Floyd Mayweather is personally stalling the negotiations. While Money May is tweeting like he is interested in the fight, his behind-the-scenes actions suggest otherwise. And as it turns out, if one wants to see what will happen in the fight itself, one might look to current Pacquiao-Mayweather negotiations for a working metaphor.
Arum Obstructing Pacquiao Mayweather Fight
Word out of Las Vegas is that Bob Arum appears to be obstructing the long-awaited Pacquiao Mayweather fight. Arum, Pacquiao’s long-time promoter and Mayweather agitator, is floating the idea that the fight take place in either April or June of 2015 instead of on Mayweather’s choice of Cinco de Mayo weekend. Mayweather was recently interviewed at a Showtime boxing card declaring that he was up for the fight but insisted that it take place on May 2 of next year.
Oceans Filled With Garbage
Home » Oceans Filled With Garbage Researchers are reporting that the earth’s oceans are literally filled with garbage. The surfaces alone are filled with 270,000 tons of plastic broken into 5.25 trillion pieces that have been found in every ocean region of the earth. If one wanted to put it all in a dump truck, one would need almost 39 thousand regular city garbage trucks to do the job. This latest report only details what is floating on top of the oceans not on the floors beneath.
Money Changers in the Temple God
Ah the Academy, Western Philosophical Tradition and the wondrous art of asking questions. Such beauty, such purpose, such meaning. Drop a tear my friends, it’s OK. Socrates, the father of said tradition, would no doubt be stunned by what he started in the Agora or City Center of Athens those many years ago. Having been told by the god’s through the Oracle at Delphi that he was the wisest man in Athens, he set upon a course of discovery not in the pursuit of money but of truth.
Golden Rule and the Rules of Profit
Some of the most prestigious business think-tanks and schools of business are preaching a good word that sounds more like a Southern Baptist pulpit than the rhetoric one might get in the hallowed halls of academe. Scoot over Adam Smith and the rules of profit-making, make room for the golden rule. For Adam Smith the profit-making equation was pretty simple. His golden rule suggested that where there is self-need there is self-interest, and where there is self-interest there is incentive.
Kwanzaa a Celebration of Life
Get ready, Kwanzaa is on its way. African-Americans throughout the United States are poised to celebrate Kwanzaa, the annual and ever growing festival that founder Dr. Maulana Karenga called a “celebration of life.” The week-long celebration will run from December 26 to January 1 and will culminate in a well-appointed feast and the giving of gifts.
Republicans Eviscerate Gruber
On Tuesday, well reputed Harvard educated and MIT economics professor, Jonathan Gruber was called to Capitol Hill by Republicans to clarify statements he made regarding the construction of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama Care. Gruber, a member of the team that authored the Act, had made comments that appeared to suggest that the construction of the Act was informed by subterfuge and deception.
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