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'Uncharted Territory' album is now available.

You've already heard some of the tracks, like 'Unsure /Offshore', Dangerous Road' and 'The Great Pub In The Sky' which are available for individual download from 7 Digital, but the whole 15 track album, is now available.  You can buy the album here for £8

BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS

Prudent Pathways To Quality

Available now on Lulu, Tim Hunter’s new book ‘Prudent Pathways To Quality’, price £14.99 paperback, £7.50 download.

Publisher: Yorview, ISBN: 978-0-9562357-0-1
Paperback A5, 5.83" x 8.26”, 237 pages

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Don’t Be Brainwashed. Take the Prudent Pathway.

The generic players in this scenario are testers and developers. Anyone who upholds quality standards is the tester and the ones who seek to get their products or projects accepted are the developers.

The problem is that those who seek to uphold standards are fighting a losing battle. IT testing is being made into a toothless, ‘rubber stamping’ exercise. In the educational world, the teacher/pupil relationship is being distorted to make the teacher responsible for the pupil’s failings. The quality of the truth is declining in public life. Look, for example, at the infamous ‘dodgy’ dossier which was used to justify the Iraq war. Technology is far in advance of what anyone really needs. How many of the hundreds of cable channels really have worthwhile content? Technology is being developed faster than its users can comfortably absorb it.

The book shows how Quality Driven Development can be used to resolve the conflict between the priorities of ‘the project’ and the sometimes inconvenient truth revealed by formal testing. Find out how to turn Bad IT into Good and enter the glittering City of Quality.

The Smoking Gun

The Smoking Gun: Freedom 2 Choose Smoking Ban Survey Results : April 2008

(NB a snapshot update survey is currently underway)

ISBN:

Author: Tim Hunter

Contributors: Freedom 2 Choose

Price: Free

Publication Date: 16 April 2008

This report was ahead of its time. Published in April 2008, it was the first report to reveal the damage being inflicted on the Pub Trade by the blanket Smoking Ban. The survey showed that 64% of pubs in England were losing trade since the smoking ban was introduced. Of those establishments, 98% blamed the smoking ban for some or all of the loss of trade. Many landlords reported that they had cut staffing levels or opening hours. One landlord commented “the smoking ban is just driving people out of pubs.”

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