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April 2007 - Posts

Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:19 PM

Which Programming Language Are You?

Me (uh-oh...): Which Programming Language are You? (via Brian Marick )
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:46 PM

It's Saturday

...and I'm packing up my office for Monday's move. Before I got started, I thought, "this is a good opportunity to go through all my stuff and throw away/recycle the stuff I know that I'll no longer need/use. But laziness is setting in.
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Friday, April 27, 2007 12:00 AM

Debugging Setup Test Automation

I spent about 3 hours today with a couple of other guys trying to figure out what was messing things up with our test automation. There were no visible problems that we could see but after setup was done a bunch of files were missing from the computer.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:43 PM

Jeff Atwood on .NET Rocks!

I'm currently listening to the most recent .NET Rocks! show . Jeff Atwood's blog is Coding Horror . I'm about 1/2 way through and he's talking about making a commitment to blog every so often. Kind of like what I'm trying to (but not
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Friday, April 20, 2007 1:10 AM

Almost Sleeping

I'm almost ready for sleeping but I'm waiting for a couple of DotNetRocks shows to finish downloading. DotNetRocks is one of my favorite "internet audio talk shows". I'm trying to get to that point where I have all the shows downloaded.
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:10 AM

My Exit Email

I sent this email out today. It's announcing broadly my new job: ronpih OOF 5/1/2007 - ??? After 12 1/2 years of living the Visual C++ world, I've decided to check out a new neighborhood. As of May 1st, I'll be moving over to building 34,
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:07 AM

Transition

At work, I am in full-blown transition mode now. Spending some time tying up loose ends on the old job and opportunistically ramping up on my new job. It turns out that I have 2 test positions to hire for right away (reviewing job descriptions my boss
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:55 AM

My Oldest Blog

Yow. I was just doing some random web searches and it looks like my first entries in my Radio Userland weblog are still out there. Here's the first post . I haven't been posting there for a while but it's interesting that I've been blogging
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:50 PM

Moving

This week, after a lot of thought and consideration, I decided to accept a job offer in a different division of the company. For the past 10 years I've worked in the Visual C++ group of the Developer Division. My new job will be in the analysis part
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Friday, April 13, 2007 8:07 AM

Morning Post

Well, I seem to be falling into a pattern of missing a post, waking up with that on my mind, and taking time to post before heading in to work. Recently, there was an interesting thread on the Software Testing Yahoo Group titled "Mostly me just ranting
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:01 PM

Automated or Manual?

I really like reading Michael Hunter's Blog. His posts are frequently thought-provoking and his latest is no exception. As I mentioned in my previous post though, I'm wary of relying 100% on automation. I'm also wary of relying 100% on manual
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:42 PM

CAST 2007

Via Cem Kaner's blog , I just found out about CAST 2007 . This looks like an interesting testing conference and it's local for me. I'll probably attend. Normally, I attend one conference per year and for the past few years it's been the
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:11 AM

Missed One

Wow, only the third day of my attempt to post every day and I missed already. Well, aside from the fact of the dog eating my homework, a lot of stuff happened last night (I planned to post in the evenings). Things like: fixing my wife's friend's
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:01 PM

Testing - A Big Subject

I thought today that I'd use today's post to describe my idea of what great testing is. As I was sitting here thinking about how to begin, it seemed like Pirsig's writing students in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance - there's
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Saturday, April 07, 2007 3:13 PM

365 days a year

There are a few bloggers that I check out every day. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons: They usually have something interesting to say. They post every day. Most bloggers (including me) don't do even one of these consistently. In fact, I pretty
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