Importance of testers who code.

The Braidy Tester makes another great testing post. Given the amount he just wrote about tracking fixing up defective unit tests – it just proves how important the role of “tester who codes” is on a development team. Its depressing that there aren’t more of them around outside of the Redmond sphere.

Scotts Inteview Questions

I’m not going to post my answers (not enough time), but definately wanted to keep this link for future reference. There are some nice ones in there to replace my existing set of technical interview questions.

RedHat 136 (Loser), Windows 44 (Winner)

I thought this was interesting. W2K3 only has 44 security advisories, and RedHat has 136 – and Windows has been out longer. Way to go Microsoft!

Rory and Carl are looking to hitch a lift to TechEd Au 2005.

Rory Blyth and Carl Franklin are having trouble getting to Australia for TechEd 2005. I will be extremely disappointed if they can’t make it over because I know they would be one of the highlights of the event. Come on Microsoft! Surely you can get these guys here – they could pod cast the event, and how could you not want to see Rory in a bunny outfit, I’ll piss myself laughing when he collapses from heat exhaustion