I just uploaded the slides from my talk at Microsoft on orders of magnitude in test automation. The talk is based on the article I wrote with the same name. In the talk, I use Marick's framework for agile testing to help frame where some of this automation fits on agile teams. I was really happy with the number of questions that I recieved after giving the presentation. Lots of good discussion on leveraging the heuristic at large companies, on legacy projects, and looking at the changing role of the tester. 

SearchSoftwareQuality.com recently posted a series of articles I wrote on web service testing with SoapUI as a tutorial. You can find it online. The series includes the following articles: 

• Testing Web services' performance with soapUI
• Testing Web services with soapUI
• Using soapUI to mock Web services can offer insight on user acceptance
• Integrating soapUI into your unit testing practice