I’m surprised that many people are still asking me what an angry weasel has to do with software testing. The answer, of course, is nothing. I’m surprised however, how many people can visit my site at angryweasel.com/blog and never check out plain old angryweasel.com (where I happen to share the story of where the name came from).
I expect that this year, among other things, will mark the return of the Weasel – stay tuned.
What a year it’s been so far. I’ve been away from blogging, and I’m not quite sure if I’m back yet, but I expect so…and here’s why. The project I’m working on at Microsoft is no longer a secret. I’ve never blogged a lot about product specifics, but since a big chunk of my work…
I just finished a re-read (or the first read of the second edition) or Release It! It is crammed full of things that everyone working on a website or software service should know – including this painful nugget:GitHub currently shows 288,093 commits with the title “Removed password.” Tomorrow that number will be higher. Sometimes I…
I’m a fan of The Pragmatic Programmer, and often use the parable of boiled frogs (which I first read in that book) when talking about organizational change. The concept is simple enough – rather than put the frogs (people) in boiling water (changing everything at once), put the frogs (people) in cool water; then slowly…
In January of 1995, I began some contract work (testing networking) on the Windows 95 team at Microsoft. Apparently, my work was appreciated, because in late May, I was offered a full time position on the team. My first official day as a full time Microsoft employee was June 5, 1995. That was twenty years…
I picked up my Xbox One this morning – a special white console with “I made this!” engraved on it. The reviews started appearing last night, and for the post part, they’re quite positive (and I’m not surprised by the drawbacks listed in the reviews I’ve read so far). Now that this project is officially…
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I thought I knew what a weasel is. I had linked it to be the breed of walrus. Seeing “tooth of the angry weasel”, I used it for confirmation bias that I was right.
However, I got curious to know about why weasels are angry or what kind of animals they are. Then I spent about an hour plus and was surprised they don’t belong to the walrus family.
I too had this question of why you chose the name but now I know why you chose it. No, not because you disliked the guitarist but because you were dubbed so 🙂
The “Home” link on the top points to /blog rather than the home of the website. So it might have influenced some people to consider the fact that you use the blogger or wordpress to run your portal and the pages visible here are the ones that are available.