Category: Bugs
When security goes too far…
August 3, 2010
Safe from hackers, safe from users. Movable type takes Captcha to the next level!
The declining value of testers (or signs that all that government debt is a problem)
December 10, 2009
I knew the market wasn’t quite what it was, but this job ad today surprised even me. Â
Something to try if Squirrel SQL stops working on Windows
August 12, 2009
I’ve been using the free Squirrel SQL SQL client under windows for a month or so now. It’s a good tool, though somewhat annoying to get working. Today it stopped working.  The loading splash screen would display, the progress bar would get about halfway through and then Squirrel would exit without any messages. I had no desire […]
It's a good thing I saved this in my Amazon wishlist…
August 21, 2008
Otherwise, I might not be able to remember to buy it later.
Farewell 2007…
January 2, 2008
Well, a new year is upon us, and I’d like to thank everyone who has checked in on my blog this year. As a rough guess, my readership has quadrupled or quintupled this year. Google Analytics gives me a nice perspective on this: As a personal highlight, I stuck to the blogging commitment I made […]
Web testing security, or Does your website help spammers?
December 4, 2007
Today I was trolling through my Yahoo mails, and noticed that a spam message had made it through to my inbox. I read through my mail, expecting to just delete the spam message when I eventually got to it. When I did, it struck me as unusual. In addition to the message body, there was […]
Every tester needs a healthy dose of paranoia
October 3, 2007
I wonder if Google testers think like this? http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/google_fiction_evil_dangerous_surveillance_control_1.php
Ruby, windows, command lines and problems
June 6, 2007
I’ve been building tools for web service testing using Ruby and its SOAP libraries. I hope to write more on this later, but for now, a pointer to a simple problem that took up far too much time. My test toolkit has three small programs, each providing different services. The first can be passed a […]
Bug, or not?
November 21, 2006
What do you think?