Cool things I read this week (08-Feb-2015)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include thoughts from experts on different aspects of making good software, a site for canned emails, an interview with Karpov and an image from when Microsoft developers enjoyed working on Windows. 1. Dave Snowden on software processes 2. Gerald Weinberg on the […]

Cool things I read this week (01-Feb-2015)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics are about testing, Apple, space exploration, science and a somewhat mathematical poem. 1. On the easy way and the fallacy of the simple 2. Apple’s original business plan 3. NASA mission to Europa! 4. Scott Adams on science and credibility 5. A […]

Cool things I read this week (25-Jan-2015)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include Dave Thomas on the word ‘agile’ being subverted, deployment freezes and outages, a parable of two programmers, the rise of small businesses in the USA and a cartoon on anecdotal evidence. 1. Time to kill agile 2. Why deployment freezes do […]

Cool things I read this week (18-Jan-2015)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. I got back from a week long vacation. In my leisure, I spent time working on mathematics. This week’s topics are about mathematics and a cartoon. 1. Manjul Bhargava on mathematics and economic growth 2. Hamming on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics 3. Are you […]

State of testing Survey 2015

Hey, professional tester! Want to identify trends in our profession? Ever wondered what the testing world is going to look like in a few years? Curious about how testers across the world are being compensated? Luckily for us, Joel Montvelisky (PractiTest, QA Intelligence) and Lalit Bhamare (Tea Time with Testers) are conducting the second installment of their survey on the […]

AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘load_dotenv’

I needed to use the dotenv module in Python. I tried the usual pip install dotenv Wohoo! I was able to import dotenv without any trouble. It was easy enough to install. Python is so intuitive, right? Well, not in this one case. When I ran my script, I kept getting the error: dotenv.load_dotenv(os.path.join(MY_CURRENT_PATH,’.env’)) AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute […]

Expertise and the people component

Key takeaway: Consider thinking about how the personalities of your colleagues and their inter-personal relations influence the work you do. I had been a chess addict for most of my life. A few years ago, I decided to give up playing chess altogether. Chain smokers looking to break the smoking addiction often take refuge in nicotine patches. Poker became my […]

Cool things I read this week (14-Dec-2014)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics includes the biography of a doctor, a DHH career AMA, a Bruce Eckel commencement address, Amazon’s editorial policies and a cool snake video. 1. Ignaz Semmelweis: A doctor that went mad trying to change the medical establishment 2. DHH career AMA 3. […]

Cool things I read this week (07-Dec-2014)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include thoughts on individual mood on a team, visualizing test cases, coding becoming an essential skill, learning to fire employees and the most epic trolling I have seen. 1. Influence of individual moods on teams 2. Visualizing test cases 3. Obama becomes […]

Cool things I read this week (30-Nov-2014)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include Internet comments, working remote, CERN, rands on the QA mindset and funny tweet. 1. Comments on Selenium going open-source (2004) 2. Yet another piece on working remote 3. CERN AMA 4. rands and the QA mindset 5. Funny tweet that hit […]