notes and rants

As others have mentioned, many Microsoft engineers have spent the last three days attending talks and panels sharing best practices in software engineering. I think events like this become extremely important as a company grows to this size. It's hard Read More...

I read a lot of testing blogs. TestingReflections aggregates a lot of these. I've been seeing a lot of talk about Ruby. By itself, I probably wouldn't take much notice, but I've often seen it associated with testers writing code (or script), which is Read More...

Nothing about a queen album nor a tabloid here. Just a quick note before I do a (gasp) real post. My faithful readers already know that I changed jobs recently. Despite my best intentions, it's had quite a negative impact on my blogging. Sure I'm busier, Read More...

Long time readers (ha ha ha) will know that one of the main reasons I'm blogging is to work on my writing skills. Long time readers may also wonder why my writing hasn't improved :) . I haven't bothered analyzing my writing style over the last 6 months, Read More...