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Bleary-eyed ruminations of a work at home Father.

Monday, January 14, 2013

CodeMash Financial Planning Sheet

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UPDATED Interested in more detail on how we plan CodeMash? Want to see all the gory (and scary!) financial figures behind the scenes? We...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

My Trip to India

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I’ve returned this last Wednesday from 12 days in India and I thought I’d post a few musings on the trip here. (I’ve already posted up some ...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Handling Rejection (From Conferences)

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Sometimes it seems like a significant part of my day job is having my submissions to various conferences rejected. Off the top of my head, h...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Consolidating Drawings from Your iPad’s Paper app

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I really like doodling around on the Paper app from 53. It’s a lot of fun, and lets me come up with some funky, off-the-beaten-path presenta...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Video on “Solving Common Web UI Automation Problems”

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Looking to learn more about creating flexible locators, ease your frustrations over dynamic content, and see some flexible ways to pull data...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Love Training & Coaching Software and Test Teams? Come Work With Me!

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Telerik’s Test Studio is looking for someone to help us make teams using Test Studio be awesome. We’re extremely passionate about ensuring o...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Are You a Geek In Dayton? Fill an Opening with the Dayton .NET Developers Group!

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The Dayton .NET Developers Group has a need for an enthusiastic person to step up and help lead the group. It’s time for me to step aside af...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Hear Jim Holmes talk Testing with Jesse Liberty

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Jesse Liberty, one of Telerik’s great evangelists, had me on his Yet Another Podcast show to talk about, wait for it, testing. Jesse and I ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Honest Dialog with Stakeholders on Distributed Teams’ Constraints

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My talk on “Effective Distributed Teams” always garners polarized feedback. I get kudos from folks who’ve left with a few new ideas, and I a...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Three Day “Lunch & Learn” on Web UI Automation

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Are you looking to start working with web UI automated testing? Are you or your team currently working with functional testing for your web ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

It’s Not About You

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Too often we get hung up on ourselves. PMs, developers, testers, whomever. We forget, or chose to ignore, the critical fact that we (almost ...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

My Slides from #StarEast Distributed Test Team Talk

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I’ve uploaded my slides from my StarEast talk “Making Distributed Test Teams Work” to Speakerdeck . This deck is slightly different from the...
Monday, January 09, 2012

31 Days of Testing—Hiatus This Week

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No #31DaysOfTesting posts this week. I’m a mite busy with a few other things . More testing stuff starting next Monday!
Friday, January 06, 2012

31 Days of Testing—Day 25: Performance Testing, Part 2

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Index to all posts in this series is here ! My past post laid out some overview and planning issues around performance testing. This post ...
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Thursday, January 05, 2012

31 Days of Testing—Day 24: Getting Serious About Performance

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Updated: Fixed wrong day # in title. Duh. Index to all posts in this series is here ! In this post I’d like to cover something that too...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012

31 Days of Testing—Day 23: Acceptance Tests & Criteria in the Real World

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UPDATED: I goofed and Andy caught it, thankfully. They’re using Watir , not WatiN in their work. I knew that and still fat-fingered the po...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

31 Days of Testing—Day 22: Why Collaboration Matters (A Real World Example)

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Updated: Index to all posts in this series is here ! Today’s post is reposted from Jon Kruger’s blog . Jon is a tremendously smart, passi...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

31 Days of Testing—Day 21: Data Driving Your Functional Tests

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Index to all posts in this series is here ! This post shouldn’t be confused with Seth’s awesome post he lent me on Rules for Effective Dat...
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I'm the owner/principal of Guidepost Systems. I help lots of great folks figure out what works and what doesn't in the world of delivering quality software -- something I'm very passionate about. I'm also a Father trying to remain sane while trying to build great software, herd my kids around, fix school lunches and handle the yardwork. (And roast great coffee!)
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