notes and rants

I finally received my feedback from the futuretest conference. When I get feedback from a talk or class, I usually take about 3 seconds to look at the overall numbers, then start reading the comments. The numbers are nice, but I find the comments to be Read More...

A channel 9 interview with James Whittaker is now available on channel9. You may know James from his “How to break software…” series of books. He’s been at MS for a year or two (after 10 years at FIT) and has recently moved to the team that makes Visual Read More...

My boss is taking a little bit of heat for his latest blog post . The entire point of his blog is to be provocative, but in my opinion, he didn’t get his intended point across. So, how do you tell your boss that you think he’s stupid? The answer is easy Read More...

Matthew Heusser recently asked What is a software architect anyway ? Matt when on to ask what a test architect does. This question was so good (and the answer so long), that I thought I'd respond here. So, what is a test architect. One answer is that Read More...