I had a great conversation with David Giard on his show, Technology and Friends, the other week and he asked a question that I’ve been thinking about since. “Tell me about the code that’s in QA and testing” – I answered briefly in the podcast, but have been thinking more and more about what kind …
It’s been a month since I was laid off from my dream job at Xbox. This is the first time since I was 13 that I’ve been unemployed! As might be expected, there has been a mix of emotions. Grief – from all the work it took to get to my dream being lost, from …
TL;DR When people ask me how I got back into coding after years away, my answer is essentially to have a project you can use to either start or add to (either production code or tests), find videos/trainings on the changes since you last coded, and don’t be afraid to just write some code and …
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been laid off from Xbox, and after some introspection and updating my resume, I think I’m ready to find my next role. Here’s what I’m looking for from that role: Must be fully remote with minimal travel I prefer IC roles over project lead/architecture, which I prefer over …
I haven’t posted on this site since December, 2022. A few big things happened since then: I got divorced in March 2023 (it was already happening by that last post I wrote, I just didn’t include it) I gave my first keynote, at Romanian Testing Conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in June 2023 I continued work …
It’s time again for a year in review – 2022 edition! This year has been a doozy for me, personally and professionally. Work-wise, I left my job of 9 years, worked with Jim Holmes for a few months, then my dream job came calling. As of July 18, I work at Microsoft, in the Xbox …
Yesterday, I was finally able to give my talk “Socializing for Heuristics: How Social Media Made Me a Better Tester (and Human)” at Targeting Quality 2022 in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. I talked about it in my last post Diversifying Heuristics with Social Media and I’m so glad I was finally able to give the talk! At the …
I’ve had a talk rejected a few times this year that I *really* want to give somewhere, so I thought I’d blog about some of the ideas I had for it. This will help me to work through some of it, as well as hopefully generate some interest! I talked through some of this during …
Like many folks, my 2020 and 2021 have not been ideal. 2020 had started pretty well! I spoke at CodeMash in Ohio in January, then at SWETUGG in Stockholm and EuroTestConf in Amsterdam in February. I had a lovely surprise 40th birthday party with my family in March. And then it all kinda went to …
I’m excited to participate in the third C# Advent Calendar (my 2017 post was on combining UI and API automation with RestSharp and Selenium, and my 2018 post was about using the NUnit TestCaseData feature with your RestSharp tests to put a ton of tests in one) – you can check out the rest of …