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 […]

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 […]

Cool things I read this week (23-Nov-2014)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include bugs, bug seeding, Python, Seinfeld videos and a much needed new service. 1. Ubisoft bugs 2. Bug seeding 3. Parallelism with Python 4. Seinfeld and economics 5. A much needed service My notes: 1. Ubisoft bugs Wow! Apparently Assassin’s Creed has […]

Cool things I read this week (16-Nov-2014)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s topics include US immigration, sub-atomic particles, thoughts on checklists, series-A funding and as usual a cartoon that hit home for me. 1. Obama’s executive order on immigration 2. Subatomic particles found at CERN 3. James Christie expanding on checklists 4. Surviving a series […]

Cool things I read this week (09-Nov-2014)

I read. A lot. And I share the five the best things I read every week. This week’s topics include working remote, Philae landing on the surface of a comet, Reddit’s drama at the top and some humor. 1. The responsibility Razor 2. Working remote 3. Philae lands on a comet 4. Reddit CEO resigns 5. Programmer humor My notes: […]

Cool things I read this week (02-Nov-2014)

I read. A lot. And I share the five best things I read every week. This week’s list consists of a Gerry Weinberg article on requirements, a discussion on technical debt with Ward Cunningham and Capers Jones, charging cell phone batteries, a Foxconn worker and some cool art 1. Ambiguity in stating requirements 2. On technical debt 3. Charging cell […]