This is a list of content I posted in October 2021.

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Some content that I wrote for AG Grid

• I wrote a blog post tutorial for @ag_grid describing the creation of a browser based Podcast Player using React. Includes two coding videos. The code repo has React Testing Library Examples.

https://blog.ag-grid.com/how-to-write-a-podcast-app-using-react/

• A blog post on creating a sliding puzzle game in React using AG Grid

https://blog.ag-grid.com/creating-a-react-tile-slider-puzzle/

All the blog posts that I write for AG Grid can be found here: https://blog.ag-grid.com/author/alan/

• An API Client plugin for VS Code called Thunder Client

https://javascript.plainenglish.io/thunder-client-a-lightweight-alternative-to-postman-501877577c54

• A good article explaining Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/cors/

• Resources for learning JavaScript from FrontEndDude

https://twitter.com/frontenddude/status/1346914017932148737

• It was national poetry day. So a gentle reminder that I wrote a book of Childrens Poems

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1446042099921653762.html

Blog Posts For October 2021

• Fiddler Notes and UseCases
• A Random Test Data Table Editor Tool

A tool to randomly generate test data in a table and export to markdown, csv, gherkin or html.

Patreon Posts For October 2021

• Todos and Possibilities

I watched a talk that I provided to Nordic Testing Days in 2017 and revisit an answer about constant learning.

• Writing an Interpreter for Faker Test Data Generator

How I wrote an interpreter to call the faker api to generate random test data.

• Random Data Generation

I updated my Markdown & CSV Data Table Editor to generate random data.

• Evidencing 3rd Party Security Issues

One of the worst things in IT is finding a security issue in a 3rd party site. Case study in providing evidence to avoid objections to fix.

• Drucker - The New Realities

Notes from the final 30 or so pages of Drucker's 'The New Realities'

• Tackling Tech Debt

There are two main ways I've seen of tackling Technical Debt.

• Summary For September 2021

This is a list of content I posted in September 2021.

• September 2021 Collated PDFs

September 2021 Collated PDFs

• Communication and Response

Some notes on communication and defect writing.

• Studying Testing Examples

I like studying ads. They are a masterclass in distilled communication. Testing examples however...

• What makes a good demo

What makes a good demo? Simple, Easy to Grok, Robust...

• The importance of expert pricing

Price is a vector, of which value is only one part.

• Training, Learning and Gamification

Using games and challenges for learning.

• What are the primary root causes of bugs?

Ambiguous requirements? Wrong requirements? Lack of experience? Complexity? Speed?

• Abstractions make life easier

Logical vs Physical and abstraction evaluation.