Here’s a comic that had me laugh out loud, I thought you might enjoy. The image is clean and appropriate for work(*). It’s a little story about the difference between […]
… and Steve Poling Replies
This went out over SW-IMPROVE, my software discussion list. I will post my reply tomorrow … I heartily agree that the first two items are anathema to effective software development. […]
Interlude
This looked so interesting I had to post it: “Myths in Software Engineering” – A few of my favorite myths: – Software development consists of discrete, separate activities that can […]
… And Carry a Big Stick
Yesterday I copied over my iTunes Library as well as some key conference CD notes. Big Mistake; I’m up to 2GB and haven’t started yet. 🙂 Both James Bach and […]
Look Ma, the works of Shakespeare on a stick!
At STAREast this year, James Bach had a “portable testing training kit.” Roughly the size of a small purse (or, er … a “man’s bag”), I’m sure it had various […]
At my limit …
About two months ago, I stopped exercising. “Just until I can get over this stressful period.” I also gave up my dietary restrictions. About a month ago, I stopped blogging. […]
The Secret and the Sabbath
The Secret In the last conference post I promised to explain my system to generating ideas to present or write about. It’s really simple. First, you know enough of the […]
A thought …
Meta-Warning: This post is not meant as criticism of any individual or group I just joined the testdrivendevelopment yahoo group, and saw an announcement for this public workshop by Ron […]
Errata
Last week Sean and I had lunch with Elisabeth Hendrickson, where we kicked around our ideas on interface-based testing. Working with Elisabeth was great. A lot of “gurus” like to […]
Lightning Talk Mojo – II
Hopefully, in the past few posts, I convinced you that we do lightning talks every day – the questions are: 1) Do we do them well?2) How can we improve? […]
Creative Chaos Link of the Day
The link of the day is: What Works in Software Development (Or – How To Be Lazy Without Really Trying) (HTBL) HTBL is, essentially, an agile methodology for one person. […]
STAR East Lightning Talk LineUp!
I am pleased to announce the initial line-up for lightning talks at STAR East, 2007: Scott Barber, Performance Testing in Five MinutesJames Bach, What I do when I see a […]
Hosting Fix-ed!
Last week I switched hosting providers to GoDaddy. The only major mix-up I experience was that I lost the link to Chapter 15 of Jim Brosseau’s book proposal, which is […]
Actual E-Mail – II
I’ve been carefully re-reading that email, and it is not as bad as I initially thought. Actually, it makes very few over-the-top promises. Only one sentence really sticks out at […]
Actual E-Mail – I
This is a forward from an actual email I got today. It’s a literal email; it is a cut and paste. If you could, please, write in a few comments. […]
A Testing Fairy Tale
I found a link to this on Pradeep Soundararajan’s Blog; it is a story by Jerry Weinberg about software testing. Here’s the article – Test Trimming: A Fable About Testing […]
Testing Lessons from Mathematics – Intro
You may not know it, but there are a whole bunch of things that are lumped into Math, somewhat haphazardly. Statistics, for example, could fit well in the business school […]
Blogger Etiquette?
Someone mirrored one of my posts from earlier this week – http://managerspeaks.blogspot.com/2007/02/rethinking-process-improvement.html At the bottom, he wrote “link”, linking to Creative Chaos. Otherwise, I would think the material was his. […]
Errata
I’m pretty buried in side projects right now, but I did want to get a few things out. First, I found this bit from Joel Spolsky, excerpted from the book […]
Against Systems – IV
I’ve been looking for a way to wrap this up, when I stumbled accross and article titled “Process as a Substitute for Competance” that seems to do it for me […]