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July 2008 - Posts

Upcoming Testing Conferences (2nd half of 2008)

I was talking with a test manager yesterday about recruiting opportunities, and he was wondering about what testing conferences were coming up in the (fairly) near future. So here is a listing of some of them: STANZ August 11 - August 12 Wellington, New Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:25 PM by joshpoley | 2 Comments
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Leave well enough alone

I was reviewing a check-in the other day, and one of the changes was to fix a line of code which resulted in one of the new "safe CRT" warnings: warning C4996: 'strcpy': This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using strcpy_s instead. Here is Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:53 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Digital LEGOs

So I recently ran across the LEGO Digital Designer , which is a free download enabling you to build your models all within the comfort of your own computer. I just need to figure out their file format so I can start building tests that way, otherwise Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:35 PM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Custom "View Source" Application on IE

In the process of setting up a 64bit Server 2008 box, I ran into a little issue trying to convince IE which tool to use when I want to view the source of a web page or document. All of the "documentation" out on the web states that you need to modify Read More...
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 7:32 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Compile First, then Check-In

We've had a recent rash of build breaks, so the team has been getting hardcore about requiring a co-worker review all check-ins and do a "buddy build" to ensure that everything is cool before the code gets inserted into the source control system. Well, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:12 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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