DDefendCon 2019
Looking for some local security focused conferences and found DefendCon is happening in Seattle on Sept 26-27, 2019! They are still in CFP mode but speaking of cook acronyms, looks like they even…
Looking for some local security focused conferences and found DefendCon is happening in Seattle on Sept 26-27, 2019! They are still in CFP mode but speaking of cook acronyms, looks like they even…
Assert(JS) Conf is back for 2019. If you're serious about testing in the modern JavaScript world, I recommend checking it out. This will be in Toronto on September 12th, 2019. The tickets are on…
https://twitter.com/smariapena/status/1121193014175473669 Just got done with a local DevOpsDays conference. It was a hybrid single track plus OpenSpace style event. I missed a lot of talks for…
Accessibility Camp Seattle is back and happening Saturday, May 18 2019 at Seattle Central College! Brought to you by @devonpersing and @marcysutton ! Register and bring a cool talk !
My colleague Alex @ Foundry is pretty much the only other Vue fan I know. We chatted recently about submitting talks to the local Meetup group . Here's my brain dump of talk ideas. Nothing…
Hello Seattle Vue party people. I've had a blast learning Vue recently and saw that Seattle now has a meetup group! I'll see you there! https://www.meetup.com/SeattleVueJS/
DevOpsDay Seattle is back for 2019 April 23rd and 24th, speakers just announced. Looking forward to the DevSecOps, Observability, and Test Automation talks. https://www.devopsdays.org/events/201…
Big fan of Ash and have been following her journey through test and management. Will be excited to see her again and I'm glad she's still hanging with the test community. I am extra excited to see…
Way back in October 2012 I attended an Unconference put on by Deloitte folks around Mobile+Agile+QA and I heard Jason Arbon talking and was mesmerized. This guy was spitting truth and talking about…
This last week I went to the 2018 Linux-CloudNative-Kubernetes Conference in Seattle. I attended two talks on Chaos Engineering. What struck me was that there was a repeated refrain about how it wasn…
Given my recent move to full-time Linux on the desktop, I've looked for local user groups and conferences to support the local Linux community. I found a cool conference happening November 9th and…
TestBash San Francisco is happening in the states again Nov 8th-9th 2018, spearheaded by test heroes Ash Coleman and Angie Jones. They've got some heavy hitters like Jason Arbon and Elisabeth…
Design http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com - suggests colors that meet contrast http://www.webaxe.org/color-contrast-tools/ (huge list of color checker tools) https://hexnaw.com/ - Hex Naw is a…
I've been heads-down in Python lately and love an excuse to go to Portland. So I saw PyDX conference pop-up and had to attend! Quick review: The talks were half squishy, half technical, I would prefer…
I gotta admit, I am pretty burnt out on spending \$2000USD to hear the same talks over and over again. These, however, from CAST this year were pretty great and worth your time! Why Companies Without…
I'll write more later, still ingesting it all, but I had a good time and stretched my mind a little. Met lots of folks. Rode in a tiny waterplane. Good stuff. Role Dynamics Testopsies Heuristics of…
Mr Bach gave a great keynote Test Cases Are Not Testing It was by far and away the most diverse conference I have ever been to The hallway track was more interesting than half the talks Ben Simo gave…
Back at Moscone for World Wide Developer Conference 2014! Still can't talk about all this cool stuff under NDA but check out the goofy swag that I will never wear again.
https://twitter.com/smariapena/status/449106999137931264
Tacit knowledge plays a huge role in our ability to test, and that's why so many people think that testing is simple and easy. Ask any experienced tester how to test and you are likely to get mumbles…
It's happening! Another conference in the books. Took a train down with my boss to learn about iOS Test Automation.
Of COURSE they caught me at the accessibility talk! https://twitter.com/MAQConf/status/259392475192492033
I've only ever saw it on the Internet but today I got to see it in the real world. It was something to behold. I've been incredibly lucky to be sent to WWDC by Black Pixel. Wow!