{"id":1192,"date":"2018-01-12T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2018-04-06T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:06:24","slug":"five-for-friday-january-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-january-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; January 12, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m finally reading Pat Lencioni&#8217;s latest book on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ideal-Team-Player-Recognize-Cultivate-ebook\/dp\/B01B6AEJJ0\/\">Ideal Teams<\/a>. I&#8217;m a huge fan of Pat Lencioni&#8217;s business novels, and enjoying this one just as much as the others.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve probably already seen <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@copyconstruct\/testing-microservices-the-sane-way-9bb31d158c16\">this article on testing microservices<\/a>. I shared it with my team this week, and think it&#8217;s a good read.<\/li>\n<li>All About Lean has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutlean.com\/toyota-employee-evaluation\/\">The Toyota Employee Evaluation System<\/a>. Some good stuff there, and some stuff to ignore. As an aside, I so do not miss the msft annual review process.<\/li>\n<li>A few months ago, I mentioned the neuroma in my left foot. To give my foot an even better chance of lasting longer running distances, I recently switched to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altrarunning.com\">Altra<\/a> running shoes. Altra&#8217;s have two unique features: a wide toe box (to give my toes more room to spread out and not pinch the nerve; and a &#8220;zero drop&#8221; &#8211; meaning that the heel and toe are at the same level. So far, they&#8217;ve been fantastic.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/qablog.practitest.com\/state-of-testing\/\">2018 State of Testing survey<\/a> is out. While I&#8217;m not often a fan of these surveys (too much room for bias in the interpretation for me), this one is the best one, and the only one I take and read about. If you haven&#8217;t filled it out already, go ahead and give it a shot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally reading Pat Lencioni&#8217;s latest book on Ideal Teams. I&#8217;m a huge fan of Pat Lencioni&#8217;s business novels, and enjoying this one just as much as the others. You&#8217;ve probably already seen this article on testing microservices. I shared it with my team this week, and think it&#8217;s a good read. All About Lean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-five-for-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}