This & That

Clearing out some random news and thoughts. None of them worth a post, but worth sharing…probably.

  • A few days ago, I reposted the Microsoft SDET personas I originally wrote (5? years ago) for the MSDN tester center. They could use a bit of updating, but they hold the test of time fairly well (link here).
  • I have a flurry posts planned for the next few weeks while I vet and flesh out some potential ideas for my (way too many) STAR West presentations. If you’re planning on attending my workshop, feel free to post topics here, and I’ll work them in.
  • Pair programming harmful? In an article almost worthy of the Onion..oh, I can’t describe it. You’ll have to read it here and form your own opinion. I hate to give the author more hits on his blog, but for someone who is considered a “specialist” in software engineering (and widely published to boot), this article and “research” are off of the deep end.
  • Have you seen the Angry Weasel. One of the hidden gems of attending the Telerik test summit recently imagewas getting a connection to someone to make me a mascot – or a logo, depending how you look at it.  If you’ve actually stepped out of an RSS reader (yes, there are others besides Google Reader), you’ve already seen it, but posted below anyway for the rest of you (blue version for some variety). 

*Many of you don’t know where the AW in angryweasel.com comes from. The story (although missing many details), is on the poorly edited and more poorly updated homepage for this site.

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