Holy shit. Another amazing Kalamazoo X. This year was even more special because I was honored to be asked to speak. To be honest, speaking at Kalamazoo X was on my bucket list, but I never thought it would happen. It’s like the pinnacle of my speaking career. Doing a technical talk is easy. Doing …
Another CodeMash here and gone. I got in around 450 tweets this year – seemed like I didn’t attend as many sessions. Here are the recaps (via Storify) for the sessions I attended! Precompilers (Tues and Wed) Commutication: Moving Ideas with Words with Damian Synadinos Hands On Techno-Fashion with Kimberly Clavin and Jonathon Stevens Storify: https://storify.com/g33klady/codemash-2017-days-1-and-2-precompilers …
EDIT: One mindful reader noted that I should be using good practices to protect my code from SQL Injection. So there are some updates below, and the code is also updated! I used this as my guide: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlcommand.parameters.aspx One part of my talk and resources on Testing RESTful Web Services that I hinted at but didn’t …
I recently presented my talk Testing RESTful Web Services for the first time at the QL Technology Conference in Detroit. In this talk, I cover why we should test web services, and how to test RESTful web services both with tools like Postman, and C# and NUnit. I was not prepared for, mid-demo, resounding applause …
CAST 2016 was held in Vancouver, BC. This was my first time to Vancouver, but I love the Pacific Northwest, so I was pretty sure I was going to love it there. Spoiler alert: I loved it in Vancouver! I’m so happy I got to attend CAST this year, after missing last year due to …
Basically, Kalamazoo X 2016 was fucking intense. I’m still processing, I may have more to write later, but I had to at least Storify and get out some thoughts before the initial bits went away: https://storify.com/g33klady/kalamazoo-x-2016-tweet-recap I’m proud to help make sure KalX happens, and I hope to help make it happen every year. I need …
KalamazooX is the “non-technical conference for technical people”. It really is the best conference I’ve ever attended, and I go every year since the first one I went to – no exceptions. The best part about this conference, is that it’s SO FREAKIN’ CHEAP for the value! At $75 for standard registration, $35 for students, even …
I recently tweeted for suggestions on books about self leadership, and leadership in general – especially books that personally helped people. I wasn’t looking for “I heard this book is great” but rather “this book helped me to become a better leader” etc. I’m compiling the list here because I got a variety of suggestions …
CodeMash 2016 was awesome, as per usual. This year, I think we had a much larger turnout of testers than before. We even had some testing related open spaces! I wasn’t able to go to all of the sessions I wanted to, but I live-tweeted the ones I did attend! I ended CodeMash with about …
This tweet came across my feed recently and I emphatically agreed: It occurs to me, however, that we as testers sometimes don’t see ourselves falling into the category of needing such advice. There’s the oft repeated “coding the right thing rather than coding the thing right”: We throw together a script that walks through the …