Category: Announcements

Yodle are looking for a tester

This came out of the blue, and I don’t know much about them, but someone from Yodle.com asked me if I would spread the word about their open tester position (New York-based). On paper, it looks pretty interesting, and my readership is mostly US-based, so hopefully this might help someone out: http://www.yodle.com/yodle-careers/jobs/new-york/qa-engineer/

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I’m hiring

I’m currently looking for two testers, a junior and slightly-less-junior to come and work as permanent employees in my team at Transurban. You can view the current PD at http://www.transurban.com.au/532.htm.  I haven’t had time to update it (it was created prior to me starting here), but I think it’s  a reasonable statement of the technologies […]

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Dr Dobbs Interview

The topic of interviews came up while chatting with a friend recently, and I noticed that the Dr Dobb’s interview I did a couple of years back is no longer available.  I’m reposting it now to have my own copy and to save me from having to dig it out of the Internet Archive in […]

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Free half-day workshop with Rex Black in Melbourne, Sydney

ANZTB (http://www.anztb.org/) are hosting a free half day workshop with Rex Black on Risk-based testing.  The workshop is on December 8th in Sydney and December 9th in Melbourne.  Contact Karen Haig at info@anztb.org if you’re interested in attending.  As of this morning there were 17 places left for Melbourne.

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The blog is moving…

I’m starting to set up redirects to move (hopefully) painlessly across to the new WordPress blog. Hopefully there’s minimal impact and everything is up by Monday.

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Chinese comment spammers win

Unfortunately, you won’t be able to post a comment until I summon the energy to move my blog to something that has adequate anti-spam controls. Feel free to email me your thoughts if I post anything comment-worthy in the meantime. 150 spam comments in a day is just a bit much.

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Request for Beta Testers…

This was passed on to me via Paul Szymkowiak. Feel free to email me if you are interested in participating in this test for Security Innovation and I will pass on Pete’s contact details. ————————- Recruiting Beta Testers for Security Guidance System Usability Testing We’re looking for 50 beta testers for our new application security […]

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Tester meetup in Melbourne, Australia

I’ve been (very) slowly collecting names and email addresses of enthusiastic testers in Melbourne, and have been hoping to organise some kind of meetup or regular drinks night. Is anyone from Melbourne reading? If so, drop a comment. If there is enough interest, I will post a venue/time. Erik, you must come! Note: This now […]

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