{"id":675,"date":"2013-07-08T22:58:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T05:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=675"},"modified":"2013-07-08T22:58:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T05:58:20","slug":"this-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/this-that\/","title":{"rendered":"This &amp; That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing out some random news and thoughts. None of them worth a post, but worth sharing\u2026probably.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?page_id=664\">link here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>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) <a href=\"http:\/\/sqe.com\/starwest\">STAR West<\/a> presentations. If you\u2019re planning on attending my workshop, feel free to post topics here, and I\u2019ll work them in.<\/li>\n<li>Pair programming harmful? In an article almost worthy of the Onion..oh, I can\u2019t describe it. You\u2019ll have to <a href=\"http:\/\/namcookanalytics.com\/high-costs-and-negative-value-of-pair-programming\/\">read it here<\/a> and form your own opinion. I hate to give the author more hits on his blog, but for someone who is considered a \u201cspecialist\u201d in software engineering (and widely published to boot), this article and \u201cresearch\u201d are off of the deep end.<\/li>\n<li>Have you seen the Angry Weasel. 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The story (although missing many details), is on the poorly edited and more poorly updated <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/\"><font size=\"1\">homepage<\/font><\/a><font size=\"1\"> for this site.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing out some random news and thoughts. None of them worth a post, but worth sharing\u2026probably. A few days ago, I reposted the Microsoft SDET personas I originally wrote (5? years ago) for the MSDN tester center. 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