Five for Friday – January 24, 2020

This FfF is slightly later in the day than normal due to the Seattle snow-pocalypse. I drove my daughter home from an appointment this afternoon. It was snowing, the roads were mostly wet, but it took almost 3 hours to drive twelve miles mostly because people were being stupid. Please, Seattle area readers, read this Now…

Thanks everyone who played the Numberz Challenge. I’ll get the boring part out of the way first. Based on response time and completeness (and bonus points for reverse engineering the “bad” parts of the app), lixiong is the winner of either a signed copy of HWTSAM or an Amazon gift certificate. Li – email me…

Readers of my blog know my stance on UI automation. But, as I’ve forgotten my StickyMinds password, and the answer is longer than 140 characters, so I’m responding here. This article from Justin Rohrman talks about the coolness of Selenium for UI testing. In a paragraph called, “Why the UI”, Justin wrote: The API and…

I’ve been home for a few days from by brief trip to Amsterdam for EuroStar. As I mentioned in a previous blog post (or two), I used my Surface RT as my only device for the trip. Overall, it went quite well. I was able to accomplish most of the things I wanted to, including…

I’ve been having one of those experiences where a lot of the random bits of flotsam on my radar are sort of converging. But I don’t know if it’s really convergence, or if I’m forcing it. I hope it’s the former, but time will tell. In my last post, I reflected on a wonderful article…