Five for Friday – January 29, 2021

How the hell is it November already? I’m at home again (and can’t remember if I was home last week), but here are a few things I found worth sharing. That’s my list for today. Not the best, but not the worst. See you in a week.

I’m back at the job after a long break (including a month vacationing in Australia – trip report coming). I spent a chunk of time after the Xbox One ship figuring out what the next step in my software career was going to be. In the days up to the Xbox One launch, I hinted…

The cat’s out of the bag – I’m popping out of my no-conference bubble, and making an appearance at a testing conference (STAR West in October). The theme of the conference is “Be a Testing Rock star”, and while I think that theme begs for an appearance from Michael Larsen, I’ll do my best to…

Another dreary wet day in the pacific northwest. Here are a few things I found interesting this week. FocusMate is an interesting idea. It connects you with an anonymous person over video, and you each just work on your stuff. The idea is, that if someone is watching you, that you are less likely to…

Although I really enjoy talking about testing, I’m (purposely) speaking a lot less these days. I have a day-job that I love, and I like hanging out in the rainy Pacific Northwest. As of now (and I think a plan change is a long shot), I’m travelling to exactly one conference in CY13 (StarWest in…

It’s interesting when I go back and look at the number of posts where I talk about what I do, what testing is to me, and how testing is changing. Ever since the Telerik Test Summit (telsum), I’ve been thinking even more about testing and how it fits into software development. When I wrote this…