I recently put out a call on Twitter for QA interview questions. “What are your favorite questions to ask potential QA for your team?” I asked. Brian Prince (@brianhprince) suggested I ask Jim Holmes (@aJimHolmes), who promptly linked to a post on…
It’s the Monday after a GiveCamp and that means I’m tired and cranky – what’s new, right? 😛 This, however, was the first GiveCamp that I was on the board for. I participated in the conference calls, I checked in on things with WCC, (barely) assis…
Why am I a GiveCamper? First, I get to volunteer – I get to help an NPO with something that normally they wouldn’t know I could help them with, and probably don’t know many others that could help them either. Second, it’s a strange kind of awesome…
At the August 10th meeting of Ann Arbor .NET Developers (@AADND and http://aadnd.org) I’ll be giving a lightning talk. The topic is “developing for idiots”. No, it’s not about how to develop software if you’re an idiot – it’s about how the idea th…
I went to Detroit CloudDevDay today, and overall it was great. Compuware building downtown Detroit? Fucking awesome. The views from the 15th floor are sweet – they have a wrap-around balcony and you can see across the Detroit River, and some great…
I have been looking for a little over a year now to move away from the company I currently work for and move on – either do some development, or still doing QA but on a different kind of product. I was becoming increasingly unhappy with the focus …