Ran Windows Live Writer beta yesterday.

I Supplied it my Wordpress blog address, my user-name and password and was able to see my current blog page and also to create a page from within this application and load it up, just like using Wordpress. Good. Need to investigate whether there is any additional functionality compared to Wordpress.

Exited out of Live Writer and attempted to log-in to Wordpress. No can do. Each time I entered the user-name and password it came back space-filled. Pretty sure that though I had exited out of Live Writer and therefore should not have been logged into my Wordpress account via Live Writer, I was still logged in. Hence why I couldn’t log-in a second time via Wordpress.

Well it is beta software, waddaya expect.

Sitemeter appears to be relaying site visit information a few hours late. So, where its gives the statistics for visits in the last hour it is several hours late. Not a lot of use. Also it shows a lot of site visit duration times as zero. I know I write garbage but nobody could figure that out in zero seconds. This defect is probably linked to the defect that it is several hours late in tracking site visits, Sitemeter knows that somebody from somewhere visited in the last couple of hours, maybe even a specific start time, but as the visitor is not there now, Sitemeter doesn’t know what the visit duration was.

Quote of the day

‘I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake – which I also keep handy’ W.C. Fields (1880-1946)

There are a lot of people out there who are very confused by testing software and also how to commence testing having written a test plan.

A test plan is for the benefit of others and will describe in very broad brushstrokes how the testing is to be performed and what kind of testing is to be performed. And a hell of a lot of other stuff to give everybody a warm feeling that they know what they are doing. Once the test plan has been written it’s ‘fire and forget’ time. 

The next thing to do is to create test conditions. These are derived from the system requirements and could well number hundreds. And they all need to be documented, preferably in Test Director. This is very dry work and many many people blanch at the thought of doing it, a lot just flat out will not do it. But if this stuff is done then we are on the first step of proving the system works as required and you never know the system may even work unlike software generated by some large software companies that think its still the 1980’s.

Test Director does not run test scripts, it is solely concerned with the management and organisation of the running of tests. 

Quote of the day

‘Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half’ John Wanamaker (1832-1922)

The Treo 650 downloads email from my BT account no problem, but still won’t download email from my own domain (Haven’t you sorted out this unholy mess yet? Ed).

I have no clue right now why this happens, just trying to describe the failure in a logical way so that some light might go on somewhere. When someone send me an email to my own domains email address it is correctly routed through the Nicnames server to the underlying BT email address at pop3.btconnect.com and Outlook picks up those emails OK.

On the Treo I also have to enter the BT username and password to login, and that works OK. If I then enter the underlying BT email address then that works OK except that I hardly receive any email at that address. If instead I enter the domain email address, where there is email waiting, nothing is ever delivered. Why?

Quote of yesterday

‘Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news’ Douglas Adams (1951-2001)