Could be mega and it could be tiny. Whatever it is, feel free to share and we can celebrate with you!
Earlier this week I celebrated my 10 year wedding anniversary. My wife and I went for a lovely meal (child-free!), are out later today and next week. Party time!
It’s also been exciting to work on 30 Days of Tools, which runs throughout October. The challenges are pretty much inked in. First one goes live on October 1st. I’ve also helped review all the talk submissions for Test.bash();. There are so many cool talks coming soon for that.
And … I also banned someone from the community – the first time I’ve done that in my role as CommunityBoss. I take this as a huge win. There’s no place here for serial spammers!
I stopped being an introverted remote hermit for one day and had some nice socializations as the new office, gave a junior colleague some tips for Selenium, had a coffee with my CEO (it’s a pretty small company of less than 50 people) and went to lunch with another QA co-worker - effectively a non-working work day!
Personal:
Checked out some interview preparations on Hacker Rank - for SQL Joins I always have to Google the syntax can’t never seem to remember it! The software testing theory part I did all right - I recognized a lot of the questions from the ISTQB syllabus and I pretty much suck at solving algorithms so I’ll need to practice a lot more.
Continued writing an article for MoT
I reminded myself about how nice it is to take a walk on a rainy day - and listen to some testing podcast
taking my first flight after the pandemic to Lille
speaking at JFTL conference in Paris
meeting my new colleagues at the conference
will start my new job very soon
exploring Lille without a plan as a tourist, not bad I ended finding beautiful places and good dessert
Fails:
dealing with french papers, administrations and knowing how they complicate life to people
If I’d like to summarize it, you are new you don’t have x or y. To do x you need y and to do y you need x. A pure nightmare to just open a bank account here or an offical SIM or anything else …
Fortunately, I find some help from one of my family members in France, soon will fix part of the issues
another fail felt a bit of stress when presenting first time onsite after months remote during pandemic (not easy, had feeling like it’s my very first presentation)
This week I published another blog post about DRY or Don’t Repeat Yourself in test automation. To spice things up I added some quotes from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D…
I made a draft blog post about a team activity with users.
