I read about the safari browser for mac. Since I do not have a mac, I am trying now Swift (which uses Apples Rendering Engine WebKit).
First experience: I could not download swift from the swift site:
Ok, the web is big and I found version 0.2 somewhere else.
I installed swift and then wanted to […]
A friend told me that I use one certain word (let’s call it xyz) very often. This would generate a certain kind of feeling for him. Since the communication is not face to face, I had no chance to see his mimic in these situations. Of course people perceive things different and pay attention […]
I have returned all of my software testing books to the library. Since I am not reading them any longer. Please don’t confuse this now that I am not interested anymore in software testing – on the contrary: TESTING MEANS A LOT TO ME.
With the benefit of hindsight now – I would associate […]
I wanted to draw a cat. But when trying this caused a problem. So, here is the picture, so you can judge for yourself:
As I see the problem is: I know what a cat is, but I could not imagine a cat. Could be because normally I do not have contacts to cats.
So, I […]
At the moment the Languages of Europe group is collecting some greetings and proverbs in different (European) languages: see here.
So far the list contains 15 languages (sorted alphabetically) - 3 languages with sounds (marked with green color):
Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish Chilean, Turkish.
If you […]
At the moment I am reading Peter Pan (original edition title: Peter and Wendy) by J.M Barrie. There is an interesting place in the book when Peter, Wendy, John, Michael and Tinker Bell reach Neverland. The pirates can see them because of Tinker Bell’s light and they get the big gun out to let […]
Interesting title, isn’t it?
So far I thought I knew some things (there were also times, when I believed I knew many things). I also told from time to time the following Socrates saying: “I know that I do not know.” - without really understanding it.
I am reading at the moment children books, fairy tales […]
I wanted to call someone by Google Talk. But the person was not available. So I heard the answering machine text - implemented on a Googlish way: “The person you are trying to reach isn’t available, please leave a message after the meep… MEEEEEP” (actually I talk in the following mainly about this MEEEEEP […]
I was searching German testing blogs - during this I found Frank Westphals blog and there I read some good things about story telling (btw: this is the Maytag repairman which Andy Goodman talks about in the podcast) and visual aspects of stories.
As Goodman tells: story telling is powerful, because of:
- the history as a […]
Before you read this, keep in mind, that I speak the German language better, because I grew up with it.
I try to give you as reader articles which are as good as possible (of course considering cost and value). Lately I have started to translate my English articles into German (reason here). While doing […]
What’s the story about this notepad?
While writing this posting, my buddy Chris came along and I told him that I am writing a story about my notepad. He only had a short look at the first sentence and said: “Well, that is a diary – what is so special to write a blog article […]
Today I added a language switcher (English and German) for the blog articles.
Reason is this: I would like to see more involvement from German speaking testers online (remember: there is Germany, Austria and Switzerland).
I will invest now time to translate the articles into German. I do this, because I think it could help inspire […]
A friend
inspired me today to increase my questioning skill.
So, I decided to show this also in the name of my blog:
Iaskquestions.com
I was talking with a friend and at some time he told me a German sentence – I was impressed, because it was grammatically correct and also the pronunciation was good. Later he told a 2nd sentence – and again I was impressed (but this time the pronunciation was not so good ). […]
I got this idea from Mike Kelly’s blog What’s your credit score?
Please read it and then come back (if not, no problem, testingreflections has lots of good blogs).
I implemented this technique also and I see some positive effect.
I have a blackboard in the company where I paint my share price for different aspects (won’t […]
Lately I have consumed a lot of information. Now it is time to digest this all.
I do not want to belch like people perhaps would do when they eat a lot. Let’s see if there will come more than just this kind of air through my mouth. After I have fully digested, […]
I guess you remember the article about “skills of doctors + testers“?
I am interviewing at the moment people, which I never met before (Namasté Pradeep ).
If I am sitting somewhere and have some time (because in 5 minutes you can not talk that deep), I start a talk with strangers around me […]
My mouse is at the moment not behaving well (may be it is already too old):
for example: I can not select a text with several words anymore
(e.g. normal behaviour would be:
1. press on the left mouse button + keep it pressed
2. move the mouse cursor to the end of what you want to mark
3. […]
If you are from India, now here is your chance:
you can call Pradeep Soundararajan and make a date for a 2 hour Mirchi Test Masala (btw: Mirchi Masala is Indian and means “spices”). I bet you will gain new insights from this 2 hour free talk.
As Pradeep tells: an expert is someone who inspires […]
Lately I was quite active in some online places. I did not see the consequences. Now I realize what happened.
I wanted to show and prove me that I am able of doing this and that in software testing.
But so less I knew - these are just exterior things, tools.
So, I decided to decrease […]
