I’m sitting here in my playroom at home and thought I would write a quick post on some different things. New Hardware I just got a new laptop today at work. It’s pretty sweet (Lenovo W520). I’ve been using a computer that’s pretty much a netbook for the past few years but I told my [...]![]()
Yesterday, SOASTA announced their new product, CloudTest Lite (Press Release). It’s not common that I get excited about a tool product release, but this is different. This product has the potential to change the market for the better.
Scratch that….
Yesterday, SOASTA announced their new product, CloudTest Lite (Press Release). It’s not common that I get excited about a tool product release, but this is different. This product has the potential to change the market for the better. Scratch that. I’l…
I’ve been thinking recently about different forms of trust. Trust is essential to any team work – a team that trusts each other will be more functional and get more done than a team that doesn’t trust each other.But there are different kinds of trust. …
My article “Controversies in Software Testing” was published in the July Issue of the Testing Planet.The issue is available now to anyone with a print subscription; the PDF will be available as a free download later in July.It’s a ground-breaking issue…
My friend Kasper, who’s a PM on our team, has been posting a lot about the new features in the CTP3 release of PowerPivot. Here are some pointers: PowerPivot CTP3: What is new for Time Intelligence functions Denali PowerPivot: new DAX functions that will make your life easier PowerPivot drillthrough in Denali CTP3 PowerPivot Denali: [...]![]()
I live in a breezy area up in Northern California. In fact, I live in one of the breeziest places on the West Coast. There’s this interesting area on the San Francisco Peninsula that stretches from Fort Funston towards the San Francisco Bay along the s…
I live in a breezy area up in Northern California. In fact, I live in one of the breeziest places on the West Coast. There’s this interesting area on the San Francisco Peninsula that stretches from Fort Funston towards the San Francisco Bay along the s…
I was looking at some of my blog posts over the last 6 or 8 months or so. That made me wonder so I went back looking at some of my older blog posts. That made me wonder some more, so I went out looking for blogs from other people I res…
Adam Goucher said this on Twitter today: “how to fail at anything ‘my boss is making me use java for this’. equally true for any language w/ ‘making me’. (just more so with java)”Now, I’m not going to say anything about Java; that’s not today’s point. …









