Archive for July, 2008

Cuil – In Urgent Need of QA?

I love this time of year. Last week I had Knols to talk about, and this week I've got Cuil :-)

Cuil, pronounced "Cool" looks pretty cool at first glance.

The colour scheme

July 31st, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in State of the Art 7 Comments »

Knol, SEO and The Blogging Idol – Test Case ends

I've decided to end the "Test Case on Knol, SEO and the Blogging Idol". If you remember, I wrote a Knol on the "Blogging Idol" competition, where the test case was "How long will it take for my

July 31st, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in Testing Techniques 4 Comments »

The GQM Approach to Metrics

Back to catching up with my SEETest 2008 posts. The 2nd tutorial I attended was "Essentials of Test Managmement", given by Geoff Thompson from Experimentus in the UK. I have to admit to being slightly over-experienced for this tutorial, but I did give Geoff a bit of a hard time with

July 29th, 2008 by debizyx
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And the 2nd Winner of my Free SEO Give-Away competition is…

Kevin Prince ... all the way from Down Under :-)  Kev - send me a buzz via the Contact page, and we'll arrange how you can collect your prize. And Daniel B, the 1st Winner - if you're still reading, please contact me too. Jagdesh - sorry

July 29th, 2008 by debizyx
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A Test Case on Knol, SEO, and the Blogging Idol

According to Google, Knol's are not going to be favoured in Google Searches. Well, let's see. I've written a Knol about the "Blogging Idol" competition. I pulished it 5 minutes ago. That's 18:55 Israel time on Friday the 25th of July. Let's see how long it takes

July 25th, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in Testing Techniques 3 Comments »

An Apology, and A Call To Action

Dear Subscribers, My friend Charlie has being doing QA on my blog posts. Thank you, Charlie. Charlie is one of my newer subscribers who subscribed directly to Debi'Z Blog. I, on the other hand (together with most of you), subscribed to my blog in it's previous incarnation (Debi'Z QA Blog).

July 25th, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in Blogging 2 Comments »

How Much do YOU Knol?

Yesterday, Google officially launched Google Knol (officially beta of course). In case you don’t know what Google Knol is about, here's the explanation: Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know

July 24th, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in State of the Art 15 Comments »

20 Things to do When Your ADSL Dies

You may have noticed that my declaration of the Winner of my Free SEO Give-Away competition came out a day late. You may not have noticed. But I did. Why was it late? My ADSL decided to die. Or maybe it just went on strike, overheated (it was 30-something

July 22nd, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in Just Life 2 Comments »

And The Winner of the 1st Free SEO Give-Away is …

As part of my strategy to win (ha ha!) the "Blogging Idol" competition, I set up a competition of my own :-) The idea was to have hundreds of friends and acquaintances subscribe to my blog, since they would all want a shot at

July 22nd, 2008 by debizyx
Posted in Competitions 8 Comments »

Oops …

I deserve a slap on the wrist, and David Shaw very rightly just gave me one. So, although it's 10 past 2 in the morning (yuk!), this post HAS to go out now. David - all I can say as a (lame) excuse is that I was in the throes of trying

July 21st, 2008 by debizyx
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