STANZ 2010 testing conference was quite a biggie for me. This was my 7th STANZ but it was the first time that I’ve officially stood in-front of a good three dozen people and talked about something I care about. I held my talk on Performance Testing in NZ. The main aim being to convince people to [...]
This year the Oceania CITCON was held in Wellington to my huge delight. It was a first attendance for me. I won’t go into detail about what was said and done because the website has a good Wiki where you can read-up on what went down. I hope all the scribes put up what they [...]
This weekend we’ll finally have our own Weekend Testing chapter in Australia & New Zealand! It’s been a few weeks in prep but it’s finally happening and I’m excited. Oh, you probably won’t know what Weekend Testing (WT, http://weekendtesting.com) is! So let me explain… This WT stuff was “invented” in India and is spreading the [...]
I started using Ubuntu in earnest with 8.04 and 10.04 will mark 2 years of using Ubuntu at my work desktop. I am a Mac fanboy but in the office I have the choice Windows 7….well that is about the only choice. I decided to go rouge and run Ubuntu way back when. It works [...]
Ubuntu Linux is my trusty fellow at work. It is ideal for all those tasks I need to do. I have been running it from version 8.04 onwards. Now it is nearly time to upgrade again with 9.10 just around the corner. This will be another LTS release (Long Term Support). So here’s the countdown…. [...]
One year’s gone and Stanz 2009 has just finished. I like Stanz it gives us Test Analysts/Managers a regular wake-up call. It is the time we get reminded that the job we do can be more. It can be a calling, a field of interest and an engineering practice. Matt Mansell’s (DIA) talk about Growing Great [...]
Just back from the movies. We saw Star Trek and the verdict first…. IT’S GREAT!!! Maybe not the best Star Trek movie but definitely the best since and maybe including IV (which is/was my favourite). Director J.J. Abrams has certainly created his masterpiece. Maybe not technically as a film but for him to take the [...]
Today I was at a nice breakfast invite from the Soft Ed guys. They brought out Rex Black for some courses and had him give his short spin on (A)agile testing. As most of you probably know or can guess, Rex Black’s law is quite the opposite of what I believe testing should be like. [...]
Join the protest at 12:30 on the 19th. Go here for more details.
I wish all readers here a H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! May 2009 be a if not prosperous then certainly a joyful year. We will see major issues coming up in the year so it certainly won’t be boring. Will the financial crisis be over in 2009? [...]