As we're now into 2026 - Happy New Year! - I thought I'd provide an overview of some of the testing projects I worked on in 2025 - its quite varied as you can see below, covering a fairly decent range of projects and sectors. [...]
Special Notice - Please help Red Cross Spain to help people affected by the DANA/Valencia floods.
OpenAI ChatGPT Tested iOS App version 1.2024.052 (22222) - Says ChatGPT 3.5 in header - March 2024 Answer to Question 1 Screenshot of OpenAI ChatGPT answer to Question 1 – When was the Battle of Hastings? – showing the sparse way it answers questions, with [...]
At Apple's WWDC 2022, they announced iOS 16 and macOS Ventura. Here's the main enhancements, new features and changes for these. iOS 16 - Reimagined Lock Screen - new personalisation features for Lock Screen including multiple lock screens - Focus enhancements - Photos - iCloud Shared [...]
Over the course of the last 3 years, I've worked with many different clients of all sectors and sizes, and have used an amazing array of different technologies, apps, websites, applications, test tools and platforms. I thought I'd compile an A-Z of them and will add [...]
Having recently relaunched my website to use a new WordPress theme - the excellent Avada Theme - I thought I'd add a guide to doing this on my blog, to help out anyone else planning this. Part 6 - After Relaunch Turn off Maintenance mode. Announce [...]
Having recently relaunched my website to use a new WordPress theme - the excellent Avada Theme - I thought I'd add a guide to doing this on my blog, to help out anyone else planning this. Part 5 - Going Live Backup / Export your existing [...]
Having recently relaunched my website to use a new WordPress theme - the excellent Avada Theme - I thought I'd add a guide to doing this on my blog, to help out anyone else planning this. Part 4 - Prep For Going Live Consider any SEO [...]
Having recently relaunched my website to use a new WordPress theme - the excellent Avada Theme - I thought I'd add a guide to doing this on my blog, to help out anyone else planning this. Part 3 - Theme Tryout To fully ensure the theme [...]
Updated my iMac to Mountain Lion on Sunday and this old wifi issue seems to have come back - but even worse! This time, my wifi connection was dropping every time I finished a browser 'session' and then moved onto do something else - in another application. [...]
Have now worked through Chapter 6 of the book, entitled 'Tool Support for Testing'. This is another very comprehensive chapter, which took around 9 hours of studying, over a few days. It covers the main topic of testing tools, describing in-depth the range of different types [...]
Have now worked through Chapter 3 of the book, entitled 'Static Testing'. This took about 3 hours to work through. This chapter deals with the static techniques area of software testing - where software is tested without executing it. This can lead to finding errors and [...]
So far, I've added to my previous knowledge of Java programming through a Webucator course on Java 2 5.0 Fundamentals. Currently working through the book "SCJP 6 Study Guide" with the aim of getting official certification from Oracle as a Java 6 Programmer. The official title [...]
Can download a free trial version of IBM Websphere MQ from this URL http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?pn=WebSphere+MQ
Found the LJC the other day via Google so have signed up - bit of networking is always good. http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/
