Intro to Software Testing: What is the purpose of testing?

May 16th, 2012

Is the purpose of testing to enforce quality, to find bugs or to automate as many test cases as possible? If the answer is yes to all three, how can all these be considered testing?

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How to capture screen recordings in a bug report?

April 30th, 2012

Are you looking for a quick and dirty way to record steps, screenshots and documentation for your bug reports? Look no further than a tool that comes with Windows: Problem Steps Recorder.

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What is the difference between rain and showers?

March 19th, 2012

Since moving to the Seattle area, rain and showers have become a bigger part of my life. Rain, rain showers, showers, isolated showers, scattered showers, snow showers, drizzle… but what the heck is the difference?

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Vim line

December 31st, 2011

Here are a bunch of tips and tricks with Vim line numbers, wrapping, count, length and my favorite… modeline.

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Quicktime to AVI converter for free

November 30th, 2011

Need to convert your Quicktime mov file to the AVI format? Here’s a free and fast way to do it.

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Vi Help

October 31st, 2011

New to Vi? Find out what Vi does, what Vi does not do, where Vi comes from and when to run Vi.

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PSHamcrest 0.1-alpha released!

September 1st, 2011

PSHamcrest is released! PSHamcrest is a very basic Powershell unit test framework inspired by Hamcrest. It’s super easy to use — just dump it in the same directory and dot source it.

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How to install Office on a netbook?

August 1st, 2011

Netbooks generally lack CD or DVD drives, but installing Office 2010 Professional (or just about any software that comes on CD or DVD) only takes a few extra steps. Here’s one way to do it.

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Touchpad scroll not working in Firefox on Thinkpad

July 10th, 2011

Touchpad scroll won't work in Firefox on ThinkpadTrackpoint/touchpad scrolling in Firefox 5 doesn’t work for you? There’s no need to configure a complicated Firefox JavaScript hack or change any Firefox scroll settings. Here’s what worked for me…

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OneNote Skydrive on Windows Phone 7

June 30th, 2011

OneNote syncing from your Windows Phone 7 device to the web and to the desktop version of OneNote is awesome. But what about OneNote notebooks that weren’t created on my Windows Phone 7 device? How do I get them on my phone?

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