Category: News
I’m hiring
May 18, 2011
I’m currently looking for two testers, a junior and slightly-less-junior to come and work as permanent employees in my team at Transurban. You can view the current PD at http://www.transurban.com.au/532.htm. I haven’t had time to update it (it was created prior to me starting here), but I think it’s a reasonable statement of the technologies […]
Repost of server-move casualties – Ruby progress bar and JMeter troubles
May 25, 2010
I had a nagging feeling that I was missing a couple of posts after my wordpress death and subsequent server move. Last night I’d flushed that thought from my mind, but today I found out what they were, and thanks to Google’s cache, they’re back up again. The first was a piece on implementing a […]
I’m in the top 100 testing blogs, apparently
May 17, 2010
Given the lack of posts over the last 12 months and the various problems with my hosting, I’m surprised I scraped in. But it’s nice to know anyway – http://www.testingminded.com/2010/04/top-100-software-testing-blogs.html Thanks to all of you who’ve been following along for the last few years.
Celerity update
February 22, 2010
I’ve just updated my celerity gem and it seems to fix all of the warnings that were flooding my scripts before. Performance is still a touch disappointing with our website, but the changes make it much more usable (and there’s an option to turn javascript off now according to the docs at http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=34490).
Free half-day workshop with Rex Black in Melbourne, Sydney
December 2, 2009
ANZTB (http://www.anztb.org/) are hosting a free half day workshop with Rex Black on Risk-based testing. The workshop is on December 8th in Sydney and December 9th in Melbourne. Contact Karen Haig at info@anztb.org if you’re interested in attending. As of this morning there were 17 places left for Melbourne.
Trying out this new-fangled twitter thing
June 17, 2009
As I seem to be somewhat time poor, I thought I might be able to squeeze in some blogging-light at http://twitter.com/xflibble.
Chinese comment spammers win
May 25, 2009
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to post a comment until I summon the energy to move my blog to something that has adequate anti-spam controls. Feel free to email me your thoughts if I post anything comment-worthy in the meantime. 150 spam comments in a day is just a bit much.
Another Australian context-driven blog
May 14, 2008
Alister Scott, an Australian tester located in Brisbane has started a blog. There are a few Watir samples, and it’s always nice when a test automator puts their code up for scrutiny. I know my plans to do the same have taken far too long. Check his writing out at http://watirmelon.wordpress.com/
Not looking my usual self
February 14, 2008
Due to a persistent hacking attempt over the last few days, I’ve done an emergency upgrade. Things will probably look ugly until the weekend, so apologies to anyone visiting!
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 […]