Curriculum Vitae - Vincent Dirks
my cv is a wiki ...and I think that's pretty cool. Welcome and explore! Hopefully you'll find what you're looking for.
It's early days still, but I believe in "do and improve", so there's plenty more things to do. I'd love to hear what you think should come next. feedback is welcome
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Blogs I've Written
- 2016
What I'm reading...watching...listening
- in progress or on the to do list
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Book)
- Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach. by Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord (Book, Testing)
- Opening Keynote Session with Dr. Joseph Sirosh: Azure - the Cloud Supercomputer for AI
- Selenium WebDriver : Difference Between findElement and findElements with example
- Cucumber with Selenium (Automation, series of videos)
- Oct 2016
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code by Joel Spolsky (Blog)
- Parkinson's law of triviality (aka Bike-shedding) (Wikipedia)
- You are not where you think you are - GPS Spoofing How to by David Robinson/Karit (@nzkarit) – ZX Security, Unrestcon 2016
- Heuristic Testng Dice (Testing)
- Uncle Bob Martin: The Agile Manifesto, 15 years later (Agile)
- 4 essential body language tips from a world champion public speaker (Presenting)
- Testing Trapeze Magazine - October 2016 (Testing)
- Hand Signals at meetings to reduce interruptions (Agile)
New things I'm learning and trying out
- Oct 2016
- bootcamp@elementalselenium.com
- Selenium - setting it up on my mac with Maven. Exploring it with ole.saintkentigern.com.
- Bootstrap - writing a static page showing 10 iFrames to show on a mobile - no joy so far
- HTML - showing 10 iFrames side by side horizontally, one for each subject my son has at school.
- Sep 2016
- WikiMedia - using the wikipedia engine to set up this cvwiki and other wiki's