There’s a term for juggling your work life and personal life, work life balance. It’s hard not to hear about it, companies talk about it all the time, in interviews, in meetings, it’s everywhere and it’s great that it’s being taken seriously. Fantastic, let’s assume then that your job provides a healthy work life balance. … [Read more…]
If you haven’t heard CAST 2016 is going on next week. Last year, I got caught up in following the live stream of the conference. Between the real-time stream and setting up tweetdeck to follow the conference hashtag, it was great since you get to still feel involved even if you can’t be there in … [Read more…]
Some time ago I read a blog post by Scott Hanselman called Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99%. The idea being that the bulk of the developers are people that: They don’t read a lot of blogs, they never write blogs, they don’t go to user groups, they don’t tweet or facebook, and you don’t … [Read more…]
Testers use heuristics all the time to evaluate software whether intentionally or intuitively. For this Weekend Testing Session we dug into testing heuristics. This is my 4th session Weekend Testing, and each one has been well worth the time spent, but I’ll be honest I had my mind blown twice in this session. Albert Gareev … [Read more…]
As testers, we have opted into working in an industry that is constantly changing and evolving. I knew that, and I did nothing about it for a long time. When I blog about BBST or WeekendTesting, I get a sense of déjà vu, because I learned about them several years ago but never got around … [Read more…]
Living in the United States, Thanksgiving takes up an interesting position in the holiday season. Wedged in-between the more commercialized holidays of Halloween and Christmas, as casual outsider might completely miss Thanksgiving if it hadn’t been sanctified as the entrance gate to Christmas shopping. It’s probably best when talking about the holidays to gloss over … [Read more…]
Phase 1: The Search I wanted the same feeling of community I experienced online only locally. I work in a relatively small city but for its size we have a quite a bit of software being developed here, we even have early claims to the title Silicon Beach. Although that title has stuck more to … [Read more…]