Project Write-ups

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Monday, January 8, 2018

Fedora 27 Upgrade Issue - Solved by Removing yum-utils

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Had a #meltdown upgrade to Fedora 27 stymied by a package conflict: Error: Transaction check error:   file /usr/bin/debuginfo-install ...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Dan Learns How To Blog...

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Here's a quick retrospective after 25,000 page views.  In 4 years, topics were all over the map.  Mainstream topics like hacking Skyland...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Review: Women in Tech

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I finished reading  @tarah's  book  Women in Tech . What better way to celebrate its paperback release than with a quick review. Five ...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Testing uTest: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gig Economy

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I’m a member of an online community of testers called uTest  (the practitioner-facing side of Applause ).  The company hosts a social netwo...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Failing Faster, Succeeding...Soon?

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I listened to a good podcast about having and executing on ideas.  Here was the gist of it: Have an Idea: Gather info directly from c...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Magnetic Bottle Openers

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In the tradition of doing something snazzy for the DEF CON Toxic BBQ , I created a bottle opener that would both mount magnetically as well ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Responding to Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses in your Product: A Tester's Perspective

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Compare and Contrast: Tesla 's response to researchers:   http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-tesla-will-win-the-coming-hacking...