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Scott Barber and AST now on Twitter

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Recently I succumbed to peer pressure and tried Twitter. Twitter is a "micro-blogging" site. It took me a while to figure out what that meant and what value it has, but after trying it, I get it now. It's a great way to share little bits of information worth sharing, but that doesn't (or often doesn't *yet*) justify a whole blog post. I find that I like it. It's a quick and easy way to keep folks up to date on what I'm doing and/or thinking about, like giving conference talks, or trying to flesh out some half-baked performance testing ideas.

Next Watir Austin Meeting: Jim Matthews' Link Checker

The next meeting of the Austin Watir Users Group will be this Wednesday, May 21. Jim Matthews will be speaking about his link checker, a web crawler optimized for testing that he has released as open-source. He needed a script...

Political activism

As you’ve been able to see for a while, from his campaign picture on my blog, I support Barack Obama for U.S. president.This blog isn’t the vehicle that I want to use for political discussion. Instructional theory, engineering practice, and the legal context (the evolution of the law of software quality) yes. Election-year politics, no.If [...]