Eurostar mobile deep dive

There’s been s lot reported lately on the Equifax security breach. Equifax failed to apply a security patch for Apache Struts in a timely manner, and attackers took advantage of this to get at a whole lot of customer data. What we don’t know at this time is whether this was a fluke due to a…

I love reading twitter after I give a talk, because I can review what I said and make sure I agree with it (I never know what will come out of my mouth when I’m on a stage in front of people – it’s part of my presentation style). At TestBash in Philadelphia, I (apparently)…

  I came across a post this weekend about different types of knowledge It’s a well written post that calls out one of my favorite topics – you don’t know what you don’t know. I think the Five Orders of Ignorance (or my tribute to the five orders here) are brilliant, and the author nails…

I uploaded my Eurostar keynote slides to SlideShare. As with most of my talks, the slides don’t read well on their own (I sort of hate bullet points). I rarely repeat talks, but given timing and audience, I may consider giving this again as a webinar at some point (I’m also done travelling for a…

Every year, Microsoft’s Engineering Excellence group holds an internal conference – five days of talks, panels, booths and receptions (in other words, it’s just like any other conference, except only Microsoftees are invited). This is the first year since 2004 where I’ve been at the conference and not in the EE group. You’d think that…

Let’s get into it – here are a few (five, to be precise) interesting things I found this week. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned Abe Books before. When I want a print edition of a book (let’s face it – some books are far superior in print) I can find a used copy here…