I get involved in a lot of things around technology, especially with kids in Detroit. I love being able to help these kids not only see a future in technology for themselves, but to help them get there. I became the Vice Chair of the Information Technology Pathway Advisory Board for Detroit Central High School …
Sigh… KalamazooX is over. Most likely won’t be another one. Not sure what will be able to help me like it has now, but we’ll see. It’s not just a conference, it’s all of the people that I get to see. Sure I see them individually or in sub-groups other times of the year, but …
The last Kalamazoo X conference in Kalamazoo is taking place on April 21st of this year. I’m sad to see it go, but excited to see what it evolves into. I started attending Kalamazoo X in 2012, and I’ve attended every year since. It is a life-changing conference in so many ways! I’ve written a …
On February 20th, I shared my career journey for the first time to a large audience. I gave a Ministry of Testing Masterclass called “Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Career Experience Report” (a recording is available for Pro Dojo members here: https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/not-all-who-wander-are-lost-a-career-experience-report-with-hilary-weaver-robb). I’ve had kind of a wonky career path, and have at times …
It’s taken far too long to put this together! Here are my Storify posts of my live-tweeting the sessions from Codemash January 9-12 2018! Precompilers (Day 1 and 2): https://storify.com/g33klady/codemash-2018-precompilers-day-1-2 Build a Natural Language Slack Bot for your Dev Team with Michael Perry 3D Printing Lab The Hidden Requirements: Exploring Emotions with Placebos with Damian …
I recently participated in my company’s 24 hour hackathon. I pulled together my tweets on Storify here: https://storify.com/g33klady/jurassic-hack-ql-technology-24-hour-hackathon-of-2 It was a super cool experience, and I’m looking forward to learning more 😀
2017 was eventful, to say the least. I submitted 8 talks to 6 conferences. I was accepted to 5 of those conferences, gave an extra talk at one of them I wasn’t planning on, and was invited to speak at another with a brand new talk. I spoke on life lessons at KalamazooX, making your …
I signed up for the C# Advent Calendar with this post – be sure to check out the rest of the blog posts in the calendar! This post assumes you’ve got some experience with C# and Visual Studio, so I won’t be over-explaining some things. Comment if you get stuck or have questions! If you’re …
In my Testing RESTful Web Services talk, I touch on service virtualization briefly, and I include a short demo of using Fiddler‘s AutoResponder. I’ve been meaning to look into other (free) tools but haven’t had the chance.
After a question on the Testers Slack, I realized I could do a short blog post on how I demo’d AutoResponder in my talk. It gives a quick idea of the tool and one way you could use it. I love Fiddler*, and there’s so much more you can do than what I’ve been able to use. Please don’t take this post as a “this is the only way you can do things” – I’ll be the first to admit that even though I’ve used Fiddler for years, I feel like there’s so much more to know about it!
*Note: I am not paid by Telerik/Progress for my endorsement; I just love the tool 😀
Fourteenth in the HTTP Status Coop series is 503 Service Unavailable! The server is currently unavailable (because it is overloaded or down for maintenance). Generally, this is a temporary state. via Wikipedia Cooper says “no way!” 😀 For the entire HTTP Status Coop series that’s been released so far, head over to the HTTP Status Coop page on …