---
title: "Skype Rocks!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/3/skype-rocks.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/3/skype-rocks.html"
published: "2003-10-03T15:20:00"
updated: "2003-10-03T15:20:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I just realized something - Skype totally and utterly rocks! It would be really cool to get to talk with some of the people I've been IM'ing with for the past few months. So if you'd like to voice me, feel free. My User…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Skype Rocks!

By Roy Osherove October 3, 2003 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 3, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I just realized something - [Skype](http://www.skype.com/) totally and utterly rocks! It would be really cool to get to talk with some of the people I've been IM'ing with for the past few months. So if you'd like to voice me, feel free. My User name is “RoyOsherove”. (I might be offline because it's the week

Why does it rovk over other clients? The sound quality is awsome! It's still in beta and some things are missing, but it's still the collest tool I've used in a while.

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- Oct 6, 2003

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- Oct 2, 2003

    ### [Real Progress Bars in Web Application](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/2/real-progress-bars-in-web-application.html)

- Oct 1, 2003

    ### [The Exception Model](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/1/the-exception-model.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/