Category Archives: Technology

Query and Update Quality Center Requirements from C#

HP’s Quality Center (QC) is primarily used for it’s defect tracking and test suite management capabilities. More recently they have released a Requirements Management module that is able to tracks requirements.
If you want to query and update the data programmatically, it’s actually quite simple using what they call their “Open Test Architecture” APIs.

Add a [...]

Code Camp Oz 2008 - Wagga Wagga

Tomorrow I’m making the roadtrip from Canberra with Dave & Steve to Wagga Wagga for the 2008 Code Camp Oz.
If you want to know who’s presenting, checkout the schedule on the website. If you’re like me and want the schedule on your mobile or in your Outlook calendar:

Download the CodeCampOz 2008 ICS file that I [...]

Blockers and How To Deal With Them

As a developer in a corporate environment I always seem to be dealing with blockers. My definition comes from the popular video game of my childhood: Lemmings.
“Blockers” will reverse the direction of all lemmings that hit them, and cannot be reassigned unless first the ground under their feet is removed.

A blocker is another type [...]

My Media Centre Story

I’ve tried creating a Media Centre PC in the past, but it’s never passed the Wife-Acceptance-Factor (WAF). The main concerns were:

“I don’t want a big computer in the lounge room!”
“It’s too noisy”
“We don’t really need it do we??”

In previous incarnations of the Home Theatre PC (HTPC), I tried using old hardware I had lying around. [...]