Five for Friday – June 7, 2019

I’m a Senior Tester, don’t you know Been testing software for five years or so I got bills to pay and need a better job… Looking for jobs with ‘Senior’ in the name Gotta’s admit, they’re all pretty lame Looks like I’m over-qualified… Someone (non-Microsoft) asked me recently what a “Senior Tester” does. I told…

In my last post, I wrote a bit about what it takes to build a great team, and how it takes a great team to build great software (which also covers about half of what I spoke about at STAR West in October). In this post, I’ll see if I can cover the other main…

As you may have noticed, I’ve had to take a bit of a break from blogging. I’ve kicked out at least a post or two a week for a few years now, but I’m not dry on ideas, and I definitely want to follow up on my recent Test This post (before a follow up…

I wrote a bit of a career retrospective just a few months before I joined the Communicator team at Microsoft (the series is captured in these posts: (part 1 is here, part 2 is here, part 3 is here, part 4 is here, and part 5 is here). June 6, 1995 – exactly 15 years…

There’s been s lot reported lately on the Equifax security breach. Equifax failed to apply a security patch for Apache Struts in a timely manner, and attackers took advantage of this to get at a whole lot of customer data. What we don’t know at this time is whether this was a fluke due to a…

The year keeps puttering along – here are a few things I found interesting this week. I’ve been spending a lot of time recently learning about “FinOps” – the website has some information, but I’m finding a lot of interesting info as I scour the net (book reco coming next week. If you happen to…