Hi, I’m Developer Sam and this is my public online-space. I write mainly about software development with a focus on testable database development and code quality, but am not limiting myself to these topics, because I’m a whole person.
While preparing the lightsaber stage-fighting choreography for our upcoming musical, I couldn't help but notice that how we approach this challenge is very similar to how I approach challenges at work in an agile way - and it highlights what people often get wrong about solving challenges in an agile way
As a preparation for an upcoming workshop, I had to setup an Oracle instance with utPLSQL for demos and testing purposes. With today’s possibilities of running an Oracle 21c in a container (thank you Gerald Read more…
It's been more than 5 months since I started at Quality Minds and shifted from working as a software developer to a quality engineering consultant. I thought I would soon be doing a lot of test automation, using Cypress or Playwright, but instead of that, something totally different happened
Using Open Broadcast Studio can really improve the amount of control and possibilities you have in your online meetings. Especially the virtual camera is so handy when you have to switch a lot between video conferencing systems. Here's how you get started, including a Background Removal solution that doesn't require a greenscreen.
There is a vast amount of different terms to describe tests, and especially developers can easily struggle with their specific meaning or what the term tries to emphasize. In this post I try to give an overview about different aspects that are used to categorize and describe tests as a tool to improve one of most effective, frightening and impactful actions in software development: Talking to each other.
Today is my last day at smenso, where I've worked for the past 6 years. Here are the things I want to write down - mainly so I can reread it in the future and remember.