August 7, 2010 by mensming.

Neither Lowe’s nor Home Depot will quote me wood by the cubit. How can I get my ark built otherwise?
Jul 31, 2010

Managing a really remote data center - http://bit.ly/9Soe70
Jul 30, 2010

Are Bug Sprints a Scrum Best Practice or a Scrum Anti-Pattern? - http://bit.ly/aXfYXt
Jul 29, 2010

New Linux OS REMnux Designed For Reverse Engineering Malware - http://bit.ly/9ECDHl
Jul 28, 2010

WD-40 Goes Retro - http://bit.ly/dbKiRY
Jul 26, 2010

Good article - I use Evernote instead - Use a Daily Log to Keep Yourself Focused on Productivity - http://bit.ly/aQ108D
Jul 24, 2010

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." - Mark Russell
Jul 17, 2010

RT @testinggeek: Adressing ‘pesticide paradox’ in auotmation by introducing some randomisation.
Jul 13, 2010

Startup Software Quality - http://bit.ly/bRaUhi
Jul 12, 2010

RT @java: How to be a worse programmer - http://bit.ly/9TH1V8 Any additions to the list?
Jul 9, 2010

RT @garrettgillas: Drinking Its Own Champagne - Amazon Moves Its Own Enterprise to the Cloud http://ow.ly/181Uko
Jul 7, 2010

SW Eng Radio: Episode 164: Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin - http://bit.ly/9XnT2L
Jul 6, 2010

Or company name - oh wait it is everywhere: com.company.* RT @mfeathers: Fact of life: Nvr put the name of your prod. in names in your code.
Jul 4, 2010

RT @SeleniumExample: Stack Exchange Q&A site proposal: Selenium http://bit.ly/bDfMW3
Jul 2, 2010

GTAC 2010 Keynote Speakers - http://bit.ly/9zw4oM
Jul 2, 2010

RT @AutomatedTester: Thanks to @erwandf we appear to have hit the minimum requirements for Selenium StackExchange Proposal. WOOOHOOO
Jul 2, 2010

Why engineers don’t like Twitter -http://bit.ly/dmyLgU
Jul 1, 2010

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July 3, 2010 by mensming.

RT @rodica: "at their core, phone companies are really billing engines. occasionally completing calls is only a favor they do for you."
5:49 PM Jun 29, 2010

Wanted: Young cyberexperts to defend Internet - http://bit.ly/bexXyg
7:15 AM Jun 29, 2010

Why Can’t Johnny Develop Secure Software?- http://bit.ly/cWXYnC
8:28 AM Jun 28, 2010

RT @scottwambler: The best devs have maintained someone else’s code and worked in ops. These are the ppl who understnd the impact of coding.
6:01 PM Jun 25, 2010

LinkedIn communications at center of unprecedented lawsuit - http://bit.ly/bnGpp0
6:26 AM Jun 24, 2010

Where are all the science majors? - http://bit.ly/bfKoXa
8:03 AM Jun 22, 2010

10 R&D Cybersecurity Initiatives Congress Seeks - http://bit.ly/a7wqy9
9:50 AM Jun 21, 2010

Data Show Increase in First-Time Science and Engineering Graduate Students - http://bit.ly/9GBV3Q
1:13 PM Jun 15, 2010

Data Show Increase in First-Time Science and Engineering Graduate Students - http://bit.ly/9GBV3Q
1:13 PM Jun 15, 2010

RT @conenza: All I Needed To Know About Social Media I Learned In Kindergarten: 15 Social Media Tips http://tinyurl.com/244b3jd
1:11 PM Jun 10, 2010

RT @johnhcook: New Capitol Hill bookstore caters to Seattle geeks. http://bit.ly/dlQlIt
6:02 PM Jun 11, 2010

RT @AutomatedTester: [Blog] Selenium StackExchange Proposal - http://bit.ly/atbyRI #Selenium
6:52 AM Jun 11, 2010

RT @yurechko: LimeWire owes $1B, but BP is only on the hook for $69M. Music sharing is 14.5x more damaging than a catastrophic oil spill.
5:17 AM Jun 9, 2010

A Selenium CaptureNetworkTraffic Example in Java - http://bit.ly/9hrWIG #selenium
7:12 AM Jun 3, 2010

NASA Fixes Bug On Voyager 2 - http://bit.ly/brNTZl
8:13 AM Jun 2, 2010

My old company SiteScout bought by Rubicon Project - http://bit.ly/9EdRyu
9:19 AM Jun 1, 2010

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June 8, 2010 by mensming.

"Failing organizations are usually over-managed und under-led" - Warren G. Bennis
9:01 AM May 30, 2010

OOPSLA to Debut in October with New Name: SPLASH - http://bit.ly/d9nLkAs
6:58 AM May 30, 2010

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." - Niels Bohr
9:51 AM May 29, 2010

When good enough is better - http://bit.ly/a9EQ89 #performance
12:41 PM May 28, 2010

RT @java: "Most APIs are like hospital gowns, they seem to provide good coverage until you turn around." –William Vambenempe
7:53 AM May 28, 2010

Why Twitter Is the Future of News - http://bit.ly/9E1PLo
7:11 AM May 26, 2010

Just finished reading ‘Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts’ by Cedric Beust, Hani Suleiman http://amzn.to/9DkZWc
9:09 PM May 25, 2010

Computer Science Shows How "Twitter-Bombs" Wield Influence - http://bit.ly/dbCNH3
7:40 AM May 24, 2010

Just finished reading: ‘The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation’ by Jono Bacon (http://amzn.to/ddvFJN)
6:16 PM May 20, 2010

Facebook vs. LinkedIn: Which has the better privacy? - http://bit.ly/aZMglM
7:25 AM May 20, 2010

Yale Scientists Explain Why Computers Crash But We Don’t - http://bit.ly/aR4AZc
10:54 AM May 19, 2010

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - http://bit.ly/9Q49wW
7:02 AM May 18, 2010

IE6 past its expiration date, says Microsoft - http://bit.ly/cVOLHc
7:07 AM May 17, 2010

Google hiring 300 workers to pinpoint bugs in Google Maps - http://bit.ly/c3Qm9e
8:00 PM May 16, 2010

Carnegie Mellon Study of Twitter Sentiments Yields Results Similar to Public Opinion Polls - http://bit.ly/brhbWc
4:05 PM May 15, 2010

Scientists Seeking NSF Funding Will Soon Be Required to Submit Data Management Plans - http://bit.ly/aFYchS
8:05 AM May 14, 2010

Seattle has nation’s best economy - http://bit.ly/aUmm8f
6:52 AM May 13, 2010

RT @ourfounder: Tonight in Seattle I will speaking at QA SIG. Title: MetaQA - show them what QA really means. http://bit.ly/cEQXNt
6:10 PM May 12, 2010

RT @builddoctor: Green’s Opinion: Lava Lamps, Android and Continuous Integration http://bit.ly/c9ryV6
6:03 PM May 12, 2010

NSA’s boot camp for cyberdefense - http://bit.ly/9OhNYg
7:09 AM May 12, 2010

Linux machines linked to spam - http://bit.ly/9KFn6i
10:12 AM May 10, 2010

Microsoft Update keeps Office secure, says researcher - http://bit.ly/9XsxQL
8:00 AM May 7, 2010

Investigating converting from JUnit to TestNG…
12:19 PM May 6, 2010

Phishing "Education Test" is blocked…for phishing - http://bit.ly/a58bC4
8:25 AM May 6, 2010

Conenza comes out on top - introduces much anticipated evolved social platform for enterprises http://tinyurl.com/yckuww2
2:42 PM May 5, 2010

Twitter and the rise of data platforms - http://bit.ly/am8wdZ
7:56 AM May 4, 2010

Encrypt that data - A New Law Could Change the Way You Build Database Applications - http://bit.ly/9LTVzU
7:25 AM May 3rd

RT @QualityFrog: Like insurance, testing seems too expensive until you realize you didn’t have the needed kind at the right time.
6:59 AM May 2nd

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May 8, 2010 by mensming.

Top 10 technology mistakes - http://bit.ly/cc5MD2
10:14 AM Apr 29, 2010

Tech Startups 101: Continuous Integration - http://bit.ly/a0ukM6
10:56 AM Apr 28, 2010

CS prof. say their students are not more dishonest than students in other fields; just more likely to get caught - http://bit.ly/dasyE0
9:35 PM Apr 27, 2010

RT @boldingbroke: Info Arch simplified: http://www.factore.ca/on-the-floor/46-information-architecture-in-two-really-easy-steps #webdesign
5:36 PM Apr 27, 2010

RT @stevenMsmith1: PowerPoint makes us stupid,¡ says Gen. James N. Mattis of the US Marine Corp. http://ht.ly/1DQGQ
5:27 PM Apr 27, 2010

World’s Largest Data Centers - http://bit.ly/9BOYIf
8:32 AM Apr 27, 2010

Why NULL pointers are so dangerous - http://bit.ly/9t0XTx
6:31 AM Apr 21, 2010

Patrick Copeland’s "Google’s Innovation Factory (and how testing adapts)" -http://bit.ly/8Ze9Ro
12:11 PM Apr 20, 2010

At the National Geographic Live lecture - Paul Nicklen "Polar Obsession"
7:08 PM Apr 19, 2010

RT @SeleniumHQ: The march of Selenium 2 continues: Version 2.0a3 released! http://bit.ly/coi8nw
9:41 AM Apr 19, 2010

Hardware problems - arghhh. It is a change of pace from software problems.
9:34 AM Apr 19, 2010

Did you sell your soul when accepting those terms of service? - http://bit.ly/9i3Iqy
7:36 AM Apr 17, 2010

RT @mheusser: unclebob on sapient testing - http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2010/04/15/sapient-testing-the-professionalism-meme
6:02 AM Apr 15, 2010

C programming language back at number 1 position - http://bit.ly/9EwXUf
9:33 AM Apr 14, 2010

How to Find Crappy Programmers - http://bit.ly/d8U4Ak
6:04 AM Apr 13, 2010

Online interactions have positive effects for real-life communities - http://bit.ly/bLUvB5
8:33 PM Apr 12, 2010

Twitter: A new box-office oracle? - http://bit.ly/a4otaO
8:19 AM Apr 11, 2010

Speedier Bug Catching Specialized transistors track hardware bugs as they happen - http://bit.ly/9m3LgY
11:48 AM Apr 10, 2010

Testing a set of changes that once production ready will make my life when wearing my operations hat so much nicer.
12:39 PM Apr 9, 2010

@QualityFrog I hear you. My son is on spring break so I am not getting up at 5am - I wake up at 6am and think "wow - I am so rested"
8:07 AM Apr 9, 2010 in reply to QualityFrog

Geriatric Java struggles to stay relevant - http://bit.ly/dCCq8t
6:27 AM Apr 9, 2010

You Don’t Need Math Skills To Be A Good Developer But You Do Need Them To Be A Great One - http://bit.ly/bTBpzU
5:31 PM Apr 8, 2010

The Economics of Perfect Software - http://bit.ly/b8PFZr
5:29 PM Apr 7, 2010

Starting cutover on last client running on old platform (developed by a different team). It will be so nice to be on a single code base.
5:34 PM Apr 6, 2010

Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs - http://bit.ly/czoVN8
8:32 AM Apr 6, 2010

Didn’t realize my last link required a login - sorry.
9:55 PM Apr 5, 2010

Application security checklist: Finding, eliminating SQL injection flaws - http://bit.ly/9YxOVw
8:11 PM Apr 5, 2010

Shuttle runs on 1MB RAM - http://bit.ly/bjqgrK
8:19 AM Apr 5, 2010

Just saw Hubble 3D at the science museum - highly recommended.
3:13 PM Apr 3, 2010

@testingqa Agreed - these main stream press stories often leave out the fundamentals.
11:22 AM Apr 3, 2010 in reply to testingqa

Pushing for software quality assurance - http://bit.ly/asRnic
8:30 AM Apr 3, 2010

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain
8:02 PM Apr 2, 2010

Are All Bugs Shallow? Questioning Linus’s Law - http://bit.ly/bqNHwE
6:50 AM Apr 1, 2010

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April 3, 2010 by mensming.

10:06 PM Mar 31, 2010
It takes more than 10 years, but OpenSSL finally reaches v1.0.0 - http://www.openssl.org/news/

7:55 AM Mar 31, 2010
When a bug in a beta gets a whole news article - http://bit.ly/bZ2tnl

7:08 AM Mar 30, 2010
Academic paper - "You are Who You Know: Inferring User Profiles in Online Social Networks" - http://bit.ly/9ROgoG

5:45 PM Mar 29, 2010
Powell’s Technical Books by itself is worth a trip to Portland, OR

5:31 PM Mar 28, 2010
Enjoying Netflix streaming on the Wii.

3:14 PM Mar 26, 2010
Grt advice RT@marick: If you are a speaker, ask yourself before talk “what important points am I leaving out?” If none: your talk’s too long

5:33 AM Mar 26, 2010
A handy flow chart of http response codes - http://bit.ly/aRjZ41

7:15 AM Mar 24, 2010
Call for Papers - International Conference on Software Quality - http://bit.ly/9ojGuD

8:57 PM Mar 23, 2010
Dept. of Defense journal article on continuous integration - nothing new - it is interesting to see this in a DOD pub.- http://bit.ly/aGlWTv

6:51 AM Mar 23, 2010
A simple getCSSCount for use with Selenium-RC - http://bit.ly/9aYXVC #selenium

7:21 PM Mar 22, 2010
New business cards today. For the first time - no street address. Name, title, mobile, twitter and linkedin profile.

6:58 AM Mar 22, 2010
University of Haifa - Life and death of online communities - http://bit.ly/bBGzIZ

7:09 AM Mar 18, 2010
A Big Case of …OOPS… (SQL Injection) - http://bit.ly/aBcKRO

6:23 PM Mar 17, 2010
Scott Berkun’s "The 22 minute meeting" - http://bit.ly/bSIPUk

4:17 PM Mar 15, 2010
Capability Immaturity Model (CImM) - http://bit.ly/dc9TZS

8:33 AM Mar 14, 2010
State Of Application Security: Nearly 60 Percent Of Apps Fail First Security Test- I am surprised it is not higher - http://bit.ly/cuN5yA

9:45 AM Mar 13, 2010
RT @QALINKS Dilbert asked to help with software testing: http://bit.ly/aUwR0j

2:29 PM Mar 13, 2010
2010 PNSQC Keynote speakers announced: Tim Lister and Harry Robinson #pnsqc

6:45 AM Mar 13, 2010
Source for podcasts on software testing - http://bit.ly/dll9ae

8:42 PM Mar 11, 2010
What Comes After the iPad? - http://bit.ly/bVVmWl

7:01 AM Mar 11, 2010
Did Microsoft Leave the Social Media Space? - http://bit.ly/cnNlro

7:54 PM Mar 10, 2010
Just finished reading _Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking_ by Malcom Gladwell - http://bit.ly/9PeWxR

6:26 PM Mar 10, 2010
Time Flies Dept.: Dot-com craze peaked 10 years ago - http://bit.ly/b2t9du

6:55 AM Mar 10, 2010
Twitter analysis accurately predicted big ‘Hurt Locker’ win - http://bit.ly/d8I3Jg

8:30 PM Mar 9, 2010
Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) - http://bit.ly/ca6lqz

7:00 AM Mar 9, 2010
Google PageRank-like algorithm dates back to 1941 - http://bit.ly/dmSSFy

5:55 AM Mar 8, 2010
PHP and Perl crashing the enterprise party - http://bit.ly/czA8DZ

8:12 PM Mar 5, 2010
How MySpace Tested Their Live Site with 1 Million Concurrent Users - http://bit.ly/dfmGDB

6:55 AM Mar 5, 2010
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." -Goethe

12:42 PM Mar 3, 2010
RT @fredberinger The Long Tail of Bugs: Should we revisit it ? http://is.gd/9CUTW #softwaretesting

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March 6, 2010 by mensming.

8:12 AM Feb 28th, 2010
Hold vendors liable for buggy software - http://bit.ly/c2y5YJ

11:01 AM Feb 27th, 2010
2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors - http://bit.ly/cNVjit

9:37 PM Feb 23rd, 2010
Use Speedy Tab Shortcuts to Increase Your Firefox Productivity - http://bit.ly/crxdMx

8:06 PM Feb 19th, 2010
Vanish - Self Destructing Digital Data - http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/

7:35 AM Feb 15th, 2010
Making the IE voodoo doll - http://bit.ly/8nZW

8:53 PM Feb 12th, 2010
2010 Pacific NW Software Quality Conference Call for Papers - http://www.pnsqc.org/2010-conference/call-for-abstracts

6:59 AM Feb 8th, 2010
When should I use a semicolon? - http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/17/2010/01/500x_semicolon.jpg

10:17 AM Feb 7th, 2010
Top 10 Themes from 2010 Davos - http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/feb2010/ca2010022_162429.htm

8:56 PM Feb 5th, 2010
I wish I could drop support for IE6 - http://lifehacker.com/5460043/google-apps-drops-support-for-ie6

6:17 PM Feb 2nd, 2010
RT @Conenza: If you’re having trouble getting your bosses to adopt social networking, the Pope may be your ally. http://tinyurl.com/ydj4g2q

7:20 PM Feb 1st, 2010
James Whittaker’s “Interviewing Insights and Test Frameworks” - http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/8437

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February 6, 2010 by mensming.

1:52 pm Jan 30th, 2010
Conenza is looking for an SDET - http://conenza.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81&Itemid=26

8:56 PM Jan 29th, 2010
James Bach’s "Logging: Exploratory Tester’s Friend" - http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/401

5:32 PM Jan 28th, 2010
Brett Kelly’s "How to Make Today a 25-Hour Day" - http://brettkelly.org/2010/01/20/how-to-make-today-a-25-hour-day/

6:54 AM Jan 28th, 2010
"The Real Reason Outsourcing Continues To Fail" - http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/real-reason-outsourcing-fails/

7:12 PM Jan 27th, 2010
Reading Joel Spolsky’s "Why testers?" - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/01/26.html

6:03 PM Jan 27th, 2010
"Only worry once" - Phil Kaplin quoting his father on This Week in Startups #twist

10:34 AM Jan 24th, 2010
January Software Test & Performance magazine available for download (free membership required) - http://www.stpcollaborative.com/magazine

2:51 PM Jan 22nd, 2010
RT @Hexawise "Quality means that the customer keeps coming back, not the product." - Navaraj Javvaji #softwaretesting #quality

8:23 PM Jan 21st, 2010
RT @Conenza: A Conenza-hosted corporate alumni community delivers lasting financial and business benefits. http://tinyurl.com/ydcp7×4

9:39 AM Jan 18th, 2010
Five success factors for branded online communities: http://econsultancy.com/blog/5227-five-success-factors-for-branded-online-communities

5:21 PM Jan 17th, 2010
Brent Strange’s "Tips for Automation Success: Toot Your Horn" - http://bit.ly/6PSnR4

10:58 PM Jan 16th, 2010
"Quantity is rarely an indicator of quality; if it were, spammers would be the definition of email quality" - Jono Bacon

7:06 PM Jan 16th, 2010
Ops Folks - "You will lose power, so be prepared." - http://bit.ly/3o5tiP

7:55 PM Jan 11th, 2010
Programming competition based on the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) available to all - http://bit.ly/6yPaYq

7:53 PM Jan 8th, 2010
Two VCs predict my old company Varolii will IPO in 2010: http://bit.ly/8eHP4J

8:46 PM Jan 5th, 2010
How to do a slideshow in XHTML: http://www.w3.org/2005/03/slideshow.html

7:20 AM Jan 4th, 2010
Why fresh eyes are important in testing: http://bit.ly/kELup - search for "The Risks of Autopilot"

4:46 PM Jan 3rd, 2010
The Y2K10 bug - Australian bank date jumps to 2016. From the Sydney Morning Herald. http://bit.ly/5aezgd

7:26 PM Jan 1st, 2010
It’s twenty-ten - not two thousand and ten. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL

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January 9, 2010 by mensming.

6:10 PM Dec 28th, 2009
Read Johanna Rothman’s "Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects". Recommended. http://bit.ly/8K9X3l

5:56 AM Nov 4th, 2009
Fascinating trip down startup / vc memory lane: http://bit.ly/1jo3Ve

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