{"id":1247,"date":"2018-03-30T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T17:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2018-04-06T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:04:46","slug":"five-for-friday-march-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-march-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; March 30, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of these links are worth full on blog posts, but I&#8217;ll try to keep this short.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This quote re-popped on my radar this week while thinking about leading change. &#8220;<em>What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em>It&#8217;s from the Heath brothers book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0030DHPGQ\">Switch<\/a>. While many of us may complain about why change can be so hard, it&#8217;s often because the message of what we want to do isn&#8217;t clear. The harder challenge, frequently, is making our message clear.<\/li>\n<li>This is a few weeks old, but Katrina Clokie&#8217;s talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9zDYCRXT9vA\">Testing in DevOps<\/a> is worth watching.<\/li>\n<li>Cindy Sridharan is back with another wonderful post on <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@copyconstruct\/testing-in-production-the-safe-way-18ca102d0ef1\">Testing in Production, the safe way<\/a>. It&#8217;s long, but worth reading<\/li>\n<li>I read books on defensive programming well before I was a very good programmer. I have a huge soft spot for developers who promote methods of preventing bad code from ever being written. Adam Boro wrote a nice article on the subject &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.daftcode.pl\/become-a-better-programmer-by-making-it-hard-to-write-bad-code-d118ab90e0f7\">Become a Better Programmer by Making It Hard to Write Bad Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Last, but not least, Jeff Nyman wrote a fantastic blog post this week that is absolutely worth reading &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/testerstories.com\/2018\/03\/lets-broaden-our-testing-wisdom\/\">Let\u2019s Broaden Our Testing Wisdom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of these links are worth full on blog posts, but I&#8217;ll try to keep this short. This quote re-popped on my radar this week while thinking about leading change. &#8220;What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.&#8221; It&#8217;s from the Heath brothers book, Switch. While many of us may complain about why&#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-1247","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\/1247","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=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}