I did a presentation about model-based testing. It’s here. Click below to progress, or click here for full screen. I’ve written a series of posts about the tool, mostly as development blog, so you can follow the thought process. The blogs are not […]
Importance, Urgency, TV Shows, and Why Eisenhower is Wrong
So, here’s a super pretentious post. I believe most people will be familiar with Eisenhower’s matrix for prioritization; it partitions tasks into the urgent/not urgent ones, and into the important/not important ones: The idea is that tasks that are not important should be delegated […]
Watching P̵a̵i̵n̵t̵ ̵D̵r̵y̵ Applications Crash
I’m really passionate about applications crashing! JK, I mostly don’t care and find it super dull. But it is a thing that matters to customers (well, mostly that they don’t but same difference). I had my first run-in with application monitoring in 2000 when […]
The Real Trolley Problem for Self-driving Cars
On March 18, 2018, Uber murdered a women with one of their (apparently not) criminally dangerous “self-driving” cars. The reason was that she was crossing the road outside a pedestrian’s crossing, so the car did not recognise her as a pedestrian (it didn’t expect […]
Generating Test Data using Regular Expressions with Java
Regular expressions allow us to describe families of strings in a user-friendly and intuitive way, if you’re that kind of person. For example, a regular expression can describe valid post codes, phone numbers, names, addresses, etc. A regular expression can be translated into a […]
Why Your Enterprise doesn’t Need Blockchain
Bitcoin has brought a wave of excitement. It’s is mostly because it has brought such concepts as “honest ponzi” and “technical analysis is a real science” to the mainstream, which makes it hilarious that anybody takes it seriously still, but also because they can […]