Top 100 Testing blogs
by Administrator on Apr.22, 2010, under Development
Similar to my previous post, this post has a list of popular blogs. This one deals with testing and QA related information.
Top 200 Tech Blogs
by Chris on Jul.02, 2009, under Development
I’m always looking for more blogs to read that are more technical/programmer related. I stumbled on this post yesterday and it has a boatload of them. I’m still going through them all but I foresee a larger set of development links for the site shortly…
Here I dreamt I was an architect
by Chris on May.03, 2009, under Work
This month marks my 10 year anniversary in the workforce. It doesn’t seem like a decade ago I moved from a small one bedroom apartment in Lafayette, LA to the ‘big city’ of Houston. Quite a bit has happened since 1999.
Personality Test
by Administrator on Apr.25, 2009, under News
I always enjoy tests like this. I used to get INTJ, but now I’m consistently getting ISTJ. Not certain what has changed over the past few years.
AYE Conference
by Chris on Nov.04, 2008, under Geek, General
I’m in Phoenix this week attending the AYE (Amplify Your Effectiveness) conference. Even though the name is a little silly sounding, it’s been a great experience so far. This is an open space conference, where people are expected to participate. There are no powerpoint presentations and in most cases, no handouts at all. It’s all about understanding the topic through dialog with the presenter and those around you. Each session does an experiment where subgroups do some activity and discuss what happened.
I’m really liking it. It’s put me outside my comfort zone though. I talked more (and to people I don’t know) yesterday than I normally do in half a week. It should be good for personal growth, but has been uncomfortable at best. It’s weird. I guess I haven’t been around people I don’t know for so long that I’m not used to the ‘getting to know you’ dialog that needs to be done.
Yesterday I took two sessions, one about comfort with change and how to deal with it and another on better use of retrospectives. Today I’m taking sessions on making teams more effective and better ways on making the speed/quality tradeoff when developing software. Both are extremely applicable to my current job so should be great.
I didn’t bring my camera, but others have them. The hotel where the conference is located is really nice, and I’m digging the Phoenix weather. Should have brought sunscreen, but I’m not out in the sun too much. It would be really nice to live out here, but I say that about any place that I travel to. Must be something with Houston (ha).
