Entries from January 2008

Distributed Deployment and Testing

Date January 28, 2008 by Isaac

I love Google videos. They have many great videos about software testing by some of the most renowned software testers in the industry. A couple weeks ago, while looking for new software testing videos, I stumbled on something called SmartFrog. SmartFrog was designed to be a distributed deployment system, but it can [...]

Drobo Your Storage

Date January 26, 2008 by Isaac

I’ve been out of the country for about a week now and have been so busy with work that I have been unable to do any posts. While here I have been able to catch up on GeekBrief podcasts during taxi rides or whatnot. Something that is mentioned over and over on GeekBrief [...]

Fools and Their Tools

Date January 16, 2008 by Isaac

This blog post about The Incapability Immaturity Model hit way too close to home. A former professor of mine used to say that “a fool with a tool is still a fool.”
I used to work for a company that at the beginning of a project they would spend months on documentation. A full [...]

My Favorite Firefox Plugins

Date January 14, 2008 by Isaac

I know there are a million of these lists floating around, but here is my addition. In no particular order, here are my favorite Firefox plugins:

Adblock Plus — One of the greatest plugins ever invented. This will stop most of the ads on the internet from even being displayed. It also stops a [...]