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testingReflections recent outage

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:32:12 -0500

To all testingReflections loyal users, first let me say that I cannot apologise enough for the extended down time that you've experienced.

I cannot reveal all the details to this at this time but will do so in the near future. Suffice to say that the cause of the problems was due to a lack of available time to take the best care of testingReflections. The problem was exacerbated by a server move that happened before I'd had a chance to do what was necessary to make TR compatible with the new environment.

Over the last few days I've had to make time (at the expense of sleep or much rest over the bank holiday). The work is not yet complete but I am testing the next stage and will notify you of any further down-time well in advance (save any other unexpected events happening).

Thank you for your patience and I hope you continue to gain value from testingReflections.com

Best Regards

Antony Marcano

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Posting enabled again

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:45:39 -0500

Having previously disabled posting to the site, I've now re-enabled it.

I will have to disable it again in the near future but only temporarily. I will keep you updated.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

-Antony

Temporarily Disabling posting

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:45:57 -0500

As a result of aforementioned problems, I'm disabling posting to testingReflections temporarily.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

I shall post a notice once it is re-enabled.

-Antony

Apologies - Problems with testingReflections

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:49:50 -0500

Some time from 18th September there were several problems with testingReflections occurring. This followed an upgrade to PHP performed by the ISP. Unfortunately, one of the modules (textile) is not compatible so I've had to disable it.

Any blogger that used textile in any of their posts (including me) resulted in an error (showing 'page not found'). This also resulted if any blogger that previously used textile attempted to post to their blog.

Why do I say "no thanks" to some blogs?

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:43:04 -0500

[textile]It has been brought to my attention that some people who have requested that their blog is aggregated on testingReflections and subsequently were declined feel somewhat rejected - or indeed bitter about this.

I expected this, however, it doesn't make me feel any less disappointed about it. It was inevitable that egos would be bruised the moment I had to start saying "no".

h2. Personal Feelings or Disservice to the Community?

Welcome Seapine Software as testingReflections homepage sponsor

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:37:47 -0500

[textile]As I "previously mentioned":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/5493 the testingReflections homepage is welcoming a sponsor. Please welcome Seapine Software (see banner underneath the welcome message on the "testingReflections homepage":http://www.testingReflections.com).

Seapine want to promote QA Wizard Pro and, as one of their representatives put it, "we get to give back to the community by making sure sites like yours stay around".

Do check out their product.

Thank you to Seapine for their support.

If you are interested in sponsoring testingReflections, send an e-mail to admin|at|testingReflections|dot|com. We will discuss your budget and options for a bespoke sponsorship deal.

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"sponsored links disclaimer":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/5492

Please welcome TR's first homepage sponsor

Wed, 30 May 2007 01:26:12 -0500

[textile]testingReflections (or TR as many of you are now calling it) has been going now for nearly three years now. I've put a lot into the site and it seems that you all have also got a lot out of it. Readers have a one-stop for high-quality content, around which a community of some of the leading thinkers in the field is building. Publishers have their content and their feeds publicised to 20,000 unique visitors each month and rising! All this, free for everyone! Well, not free for absolutely everyone... Setting aside hosting costs... It has taken a lot of my time to keep this all running for you, and believe me when I say the current sponsored links don't pay very much. And now I need to start spending even more time trying to bring TR more up to date and work towards giving you more of the features you want. Unfortunately, time is not limitless and I have had to take steps to reduce my availability to paying clients in order to make time for TR. I was always mindful of adding banner-based paid-advertising but having consulted with many of you, readers and publishers, and it seems that you are happy for companies to sponsor TR. The first step in this process is to accept our new, imminent, homepage sponsor. Their sponsorship spot will go live very soon... They have been watching TR for some time and want to contribute to its ongoing success... whilst of course increasing their own brand awareness and I am sure they hope to also sell something to you. Watch this space for more info. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate in e-mailing me on admin - at - testingReflections - dot - com. Other potential sponsors can contact me to discuss how they can contribute to the future of TR through sponsorship. E-mail me on admin - at - testingReflections - dot - com. All the best -- Antony Marcano P.S. Please do read this brief sponsored links disclaimer.

Comments (temporarily) disabled for untrusted users

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:53:35 -0500

This is a precautionary step to prevent people from filling up the moderation queue.

Hot Topic: Assimilation of testers and developers into a heterogeneous team...

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:02:40 -0600

[textile]The "Assimilated Tester":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/4948 post seems to have generated a vibrant debate...

Should testers remain independent of the development team or should testers and developers work together in one heterogeneous team?

Read "the original post and the comments for more":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/4948 on this discussion

Blog Posting Disabled for New Users

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:32:27 -0500

[textile]I've been contemplating this step for some time and recent blog-spam attacks on the site have prompted me to do this sooner rather than later.

testingReflections has become the trusted source for high quality content, knowledge and ideas on software testing. Respected leaders in the field use the site regularly and comment on how valuable it is. I've been very careful to select content for aggregation so that it is useful to the community.

Conversely, anyone could register and start blogging on testingReflections (or TR as some people are now calling it) regardless of the quality of their content. This meant that the TR hosted content could be of significantly variable quality...

Serious Outage - apologies from the ISP

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:42:48 -0500

Yesterday, testingReflections' ISP had some serious issues at their data centre yesterday as part of an ongoing upgrade that went awry (I am sure there is a testing story in here somewhere).

Consequently, testingReflections had to be moved to a different server and there were some DNS propagation issues that needed to work themselves out before everything could run smoothly again.

They have apologised and all I can say is sorry to all of you who came to testingReflections and were greeted with nothing more than an error message.

Trackbacks temporarily disabled

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:26:19 -0500

[textile]Due to trackback spammers posting an unprecedented number of unwanted posts, I have had to disable trackbacks temporarily. I will enable it again once I get a chance to deal with the latest spate of spam!

This will take some time to resolve since they have posted a lot of unwanted comments that are not of interest to testingReflections readers... so, in the mean time - trackbacks are off!

It is a shame that these few spoil it for the many.

Down-time - apologies

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:55:52 -0600

[textile]As some of you may have been aware, the site was unavailable for a part of today. This was due to a configuration error.

Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused. Thank you for your patience.

QAPodcast - Reflected!!

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:05:46 -0600

[textile]A while back, when "QAPodcast":http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/2985 first started, Darren Barefoot contacted me and suggested that I add it to the testingReflections feed list. At the time, I really wasn't sure what direction it was going in. I was concerned that it might end up having an emphasis on promoting their company. Although their company is mentioned, the emphasis from a listener's point of view is on the content, I am very glad to say.