I’ve just read James Bach’s new book, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success. It’s available now as an e-book, and will be released in September 2009 in hardcover. It’s easy to digest at 141 pages long, but it still gives us a lot [...]

There has been a big change at Tejas Software Consulting. I am now working full-time at New York Air Brake at their Train Dynamic Systems division in Fort Worth, Texas. It’s the first time I’ve worked close to home in Fort Worth. I’m working on train simulators that are used to train locomotive engineers. Another [...]

My post on the Software Alchemy blog today - Lamenting Java-based test tools. I’m sure I’ll get in trouble with Java enthusiasts.

On the Software Alchemy blog I say Thank You for Your Complaint to one of my critics. Enthusiastic supporters are great for morale. But constructive critics are even more valuable, because they help me improve myself.

My column Deconstructing Our Tools is featured on StickyMinds this week. It’s basically a listing of many different categories of tools. A tutorial I gave on the same subject at the SQuAD conference recently filled a large room to capacity, so it seems to be something that people find useful.

My second post on the StickyMinds Software Alchemy blog is Who fixes the bugs?, where I explore the question of whether testers should fix the bugs they find.

StickyMinds now has a blog area on their site, and they have invited me to contribute to their blogs. I get ideas about testing that I want to write about so often on my blog here, but I often don’t get around to writing about them. I’m hoping that having the expectation of contributing to [...]

A thing my sister likes to doSome evenings after supperIs sit upstairs in her small roomAnd use her Thinker-UpperShe turns her Thinker-Upper on.She lets it softly purr.It thinks up friendly little thingsWith smiles and and fuzzy fur.She sometimes does this by the hour.Then when she’s tired of play,She turns on her UN-ThinkerAnd un-thinks the things [...]