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It’s About The Smiles – EuroSTAR Video Competition

By on April 22, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

I entered a competetion to win a ticket to EuroSTAR 2013.  It features smiles, a roar, lots of testers with a stealth ninja type song I’d like to go, so please consider voting for me  

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A Story of A (Testing Planet) Bug

By on April 12, 2013 in Me, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

I’m a tester. I run websites aimed at testers. Strangely testers seem to get this weird pleasure reporting bugs to me. I won’t tell you of all the bugs that I know exist, but I can tell you of one. The one that made me laugh at first then wonder how we were going to fix [...]

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Testing Photo Fun, The Results #testbash

By on April 8, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

In my last blog post I promised to take some photos during ‘TestBash’ week in a self potrait and relaxed style. Here are the results:

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Join Me In Some Testing Photo Fun

By on March 12, 2013 in Me, Software Testing

In the testing community, sometimes I feel like we all don’t know what we all look like. Is it important?  Maybe or maybe not, either way I think we could have a bit of fun along the way whilst getting to know each other a bit better. So next week, when I meet and speak [...]

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The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer

By on March 7, 2013 in Me

Thank you Justin.

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Start With Why

By on February 27, 2013 in Business, Me, My StartUp Life

I enjoyed watching this. In a nutshell – have a purpose!  The video talks about it in the context of business, but am sure this could apply to many aspects of ‘life’.

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I Don’t Do Meetings (And About Being Grateful)

By on February 14, 2013 in Business, Me, My StartUp Life

It dawned on me the other day that I don’t do meetings, yeah like doh, it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out! As a virtual team, instead of meetings we have conversations, (skype) chats, Yammer conversations, emails and telephone calls (normally just for customer enquiries). The more I thought about it the more [...]

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Child Friendly Meetups

By on February 6, 2013 in Me, My StartUp Life, Software Testing

I have 3 kids.  And lets face it, it’s hard to get out meeting people sometimes.  I’ve long wanted to do some kind of networking/meetup that welcomed kids.  It seems that the time has come for testers of the world/UK With TestBash happening in March I became aware that a few of the attendees were [...]

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Collecting Resources

By on January 21, 2013 in Me

I find myself learning. Constantly.  These days it’s more about running businesses, startups, (lean) marketing and growth hacking than testing.  To be honest, all my energy for testing related content goes on The Testing Planet and/or Ministry of Testing. I’ve kind of being keep of track of things for myself, but not consistently enough.  Sometimes [...]

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You don’t launch a popular _______

By on January 8, 2013 in Business, Community, Me

You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one. – Seth Godin This resonates with me. Because it applies to most things in life. You don’t launch a popular community, you build one. You don’t launch a successful career, you build one. You don’t launch a successful startup, you build one. You get the picture. [...]

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