ronpih's weblog

I haven't posted here in a while. For now I'm over at http://ronaldpihlgren.wordpress.com

Post from Trish Khoo (AKA @hogfish): http://ubertest.hogfish.net/?p=224

http://angryweasel.com/blog/?p=182

Since MSDN Blogs moved to a new platform, I'm not sure what happened to all my old pages that weren't blog posts (including my old list of test blogs). Oh well, I didn't maintain them and they were getting pretty long in the tooth anyway. So, I'm starting...

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James Bach Cem Kaner Trish Khoo Alan Page

Excellent 3-part interview with Cem Kaner: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Yesterday I noticed that my view of the testing blogosphere is way out of date. Need to get back into the habit of paying attention to what's out there...

Cristian Petculescu, principal architect on the Analysis Services team, has started blogging . Cristian's most recent work was shown in the recent TechEd and BI Conference keynotes - the PivotViewer extension for Reporting Services. He talks a bit about...

http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2010/07/management-trumps-culture-every-time.html

A few years ago and the CAST conference, I talked to one of the owners of Dorset House publishing and they told me that they wouldn't be offering their books in Kindle editions. Today, I just noticed that at least some Dorset House books are available...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/06/23/10029164.aspx

Important blog post: http://thesocialtester.posterous.com/dont-be-a-follower-be-a-tester (via James Bach on Twitter)

Looks like our book has moved from "preorder" status to being available. Kindle version is here . I really want to give credit to my coauthors, Denny Lee and Siva Harinath. They've both been through this before and really helped this first-time author...

It looks like with the new blogging framework the lists on my pages aren't showing up anymore. Since I got an email on it, here is the link to my page of software testing blog links: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ronpih/archive/2008/02/23/software-testing-blogs...

Does the blogging platform update work?

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4453.html #

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5973&tag=col1;post-5973

http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224202202&subSection=News

This post will talk about setting up PowerPivot for Excel on the Windows Vista Operating System. Before I talk about setup itself I want to mention the prerequisites. On the Windows Vista platform, these requirements are different than those of Excel...

http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpivot/archive/2010/04/02/powerpivot-for-excel-2010-november-ctp-expired.aspx

Sadly, it appears that DDJ has removed Michael Hunters blog posts on "Five questions with..." and "You are not done yet..." If you click on my links in the "Compendiums" section on the right side of the page you'll get 404 errors. If I'd have known they...

This post will talk about setting up PowerPivot for Excel on the Windows XP operating system. Before I talk about setup itself I want to mention the prerequisites. On the XP platform, these requirements match those of Office 2010. They are: 32...

Now that we are more or less final on the features of PowerPivot for Excel, I thought I would do a series of posts on the PowerPivot for Excel setup experience on various operating systems. There are six currently supported operating systems for PowerPivot...

http://powerpivotfaq.com/Lists/TGPPF/AllItems.aspx