Check out this book! This year fellow Microsofties who are photographer nuts from around the world spent five months assembling and publishing a world-class, fine art photo book.  The time and talent that went into this project makes every copy of...

As I was planning to do a team-wide presentation on Session Based Testing, I just thought I might as well use this opportunity to blog and share my own learning on Session Based Testing and at the same time prepare for the talk.  Killing 1 bird with...

That is a pretty bold blog title and absolutely had nothing to do with the Oscar itself. But I had very little time last night to watch Oscar, and was somewhat curious about the winners and losers. So I hit up Google and use this search term “Oscar”....

I've been on many teams in my whole testing career, and for some reason, I always end up getting assigned to validate the email address field. So after numerous times of hunting down my old email test cases from previous team, I am giving up. I thought...

1) Order t-shirts for the development team 2) Announce the release date 3) Write the code 4) Write the manual 5) Hire a PM 6) PM spec the software based on the code (to ensure the software meets the specifications) 7) Ship/Launch 8) Test with real users...

My current team has been integrating this testing technique for a while now along with the traditional testing methods of manual testing as well as automation.  Most of the testing community that I have known seem to brush this testing technique...

Okay, after a long sabbatical from writing blogs due to various reasons (over-worked, personal reasons, or just plain lazy), I am about to begin start blogging again. My MSDN blog ranking has taken such an embarrassing tumble that I think I need to start...

Stumbled upon this great one liner off Bash.org (via Reddit ) just moments ago. Made me LOL.

Today was an eye opener for me. When I browsed through my Flickr account, I happened to notice the greetings-in-different-language on my Flickr home page. You know the usual phrases "Kumusta ch4n!" (Tagalog), or "Hola ch4n!" (Spanish), or "Bonjour ch4n...

Today is meant to be the power of two's day. 2¹ => 2 2² => 4 2³ => 8 Putting together make 2/4/8 => 2/4/08. Of course, back home in Asia and possibly in other places around the globe today is actually 2²/2¹/2³ which isn't as interesting. k...

This year is going to be a memorable one since it's the last year that Bill is going to be with us 'softie full time. In light of the upcoming retirement, I decided to read on his bio just to learn a bit more about him. What I found out was somewhat amazing...

Some off topic from software testing here (as if I have a lot of 'on-topic', but well...). Yesterday, a few friends and I decided to go crazy and wander around town for a quick photo shooting session. The weather was cranky (cloudy and off-n-on drizzle...

I have always enjoyed watching motivational speakers giving out some speeches or tips on how to err... be motivated in life, or help others stay motivated, or maybe motivate others. But most of the time the content of those speeches would stay with me...

I have been wondering for as long as I can remember why MSFT doesn't have a centralized forum for software testing. But today, it seemed that testing god has answered that question as I happened to stumble upon this MSDN Software Testing Discussing Forum...

I considered this evening to be pretty special for me -- it's one of those rare days where I could have dinner peacefully all by myself. Not that I enjoyed eating dinner alone, but sometimes what a geek man wants is simply quiet time with a computer....

...but it was for the greater and better cause anyway, especially for all FPS fans out there. About a year ago today (back in August/September 2006), my office mate Derek and I signed up for a little gaming tournament to help beta test some sort of FPS...

Google earnings missed forecast. Microsoft met expectation. I can only wish what it'd be like if Xbox 360 red ring of death never happened (which cost 8¢ per share btw. Ouch) In addition, the Potter mania is fast cooking up at Amazon. Although I find...

Yesterday, I received a notification from the Microsoft eHome team that they were giving out free MCE remote + IR blaster receiver for free. So my natural greed quickly guided me to their building and 30 mins later, I had 2 sets in my hand (just couldn...

Technorati Tags: software development , testing , bugs , scrum Last week, I attended one of the engineering forum held annually at Microsoft (ala Engineering Excellence & Trust Worthy Computing Forum), which I must say is one of the great perks...

I happened to check my mail last night from home and noticed a missed call notification for my work phone in my mail inbox (one great feature about phone+Outlook integration). It's from some guy with a caller ID with number 919-261-6681 on it. Hmm......

I've been using the beta version of Live Hotmail for a long while now, and it seemed that the end of the tunnel is near. According to the official mail from Live Hotmail Team early today, it's nearly launch time. To be honest, I joined the Beta tester...

Let's think about this for a second: How come a developer can easily calculate implementation time, but why a tester always scratch his (or her) head when asked to provide time needed to stabilize the software? Why is test estimate so difficult and elusive...

I knew this one is soon coming sooner or later -- FREE in home broadband services. I have to admit this is very clever and Google beat us to it first with their ingenious do-it-yourself kit which uses nothing but your toilet and the sewage line as the...

Keeping pets can bring many benefits -- reduce stress, companionship, attract the opposite sex, etc. However, it just occurred to me that my pet cats actually are even more useful than that. There are certain attributes about them that I find interesting...

This is a sequel to my previous post , on the new initiative from the Windows Live Group (which I had been working for up until last Wednesday 3/21 that we are splitting up to become the new Search and Ad Platform ). It's the " i'm " campaign. Although...