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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

2014 round up

My 2014 resolutions were: 1. I will not stab anyone in 2014 (just one more year...) 2. Get my second degree brown belt and make a run at 1st degree. 3. Finish book #2 and write book #3 for NaNoWriMo I have not stabbed anyone this year, fulfilling my annual

Project explosion

I have a rule that there's no crafting output during November until I've made my 2000 words for the day on the current novel. Since my 10th NaNoWriMo win, I have done all this: * Knit 2 hats (a Windschief and a modified Dustland) * Started knitting a

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Week Four

Took some drastic steps to get to the end of my story, I left it a bit over the halfway point and jumped ahead to the final scene, wrapping up a four-book series. Saturday 22nd 45043 words, 2212 today. Planning to catch up to my original 2k a day goal

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Week Three

Where our hero discovers novel writing isn't as bad as last week, and interrogates some characters. After ten years of novel writing, we made it to the Night of Writing Dangerously! Saturday 15th 32667 words, 2017 today. Wrote in Bread and Cocoa after breakfast, before heading out to

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Week Two

NaNoWriMo lore says that Week Two is an icy blast of cold on Week One's sunny progress. I'm definitely feeling the ill effects of not having a road-map to where this novel is going. Lots of cool characters, but not much idea of things they desperately

NaNoWriMo 2014 - Week One

Week One is where you ride the wave and stack up as many words as you can in preparation for the cold shock of the dreaded Week Two. I realised this week if I finish book 4 of my trilogy (and then go back and finish the story for book

The Red Team Rules for Software QA

I found the Original 12 Red Team Rules recently (there's profanity in the list), and a lot of them are relevant to life as a software quality advocate/analyst/engineer/assurance person with a bit of modification. Rule 1: Know when the test will be over.(Was: Always

Candidates, things your interviewers want you to know

(This is close to my heart because I’ve done a bunch of interviews lately, some good, some not so good.) If a skill or qualification is on your resume, I will ask you about it, especially if it's one I also have. Claim to know C# and

Your software project might have a QA if...

Some of these are mine, some I lifted from the company Slack channel for Quality Advocacy. * You're used to finding Cyrillic or Greek or Mandarin in the database * There's code in place to stop you copying War and Peace into the app multiple times * You know

"You're an introvert? Are you sure?"

I get that a lot. My usual response is that I can play extrovert really well, but it's draining. With one person, or two, I'm just fine. With people I'm familiar with and comfortable with, like my knit group, I'm OK. With

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