I’m Bob. I live in the UK and like people and computers. Oh, and quality, which sometimes (but not always) seems to involve automation. And I like data too. As you might expect, the views I express here are my own and not necessarily those of my employer. Commenters’ views are their own too. I’m on Mastodon.
Posts that seemed popular the last time I looked at the stats (4/1/2022):
- Documenting ASP.NET REST APIs with Swagger / Swashbuckle
- Introduction to unit testing SQL Server stored procedures with tSQLt
- From Excel to SSIS: Filtering rows
- Automating the deployment of SSIS packages
- An introduction to building a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Octopus
- Dealing with transactions in tSQLt
- Anatomy of a tSQLt test
- Your tests are code too
- The skills that developers and testers share
- A beginner’s guide to practical quantum computing
- Sankey diagrams to explain Coronavirus and Covid19
- How far is it to the coast?
- How far away from here is the most distant bit of the UK?
- Good software and how to get it
- Different ways people add value in a software development team
- Simulating how birds form flocks
Posts that I was particularly happy to write, in no particular order (ignoring the one I wrote most recently):
- A prayer before going online
- Measurements that matter
- User experience and data quality
- A beginner’s guide to practical quantum computing
- Organising technical documents for a good user experience
- Emotion and software development
- Language can teach us about usability
- The user, not your user interface, is the star of the show
- Imagination
- Going a bit deeper with Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)
- Visualisations and the stories behind them
- Stats: Through a glass, darkly
- The compounding value of information
Categories I seem to use a lot:
- Testing
- Coding
- Rambling (!)
- User Experience
- C#
- Visualisation
- Computer theory
- Database
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