Archive for July, 2009

Sorry About the Digital Rights Nonsense

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

When my publisher decided to release my Secrets book for “free” as an ebook, I thought it meant FREE. I just found it meant free-for-a-little-while-and-then-gone. Apparently it has some sort of DRM expiration date on it.
[Update: One of my tester friends found that he could defeat the expiration mechanism by playing with the system date, [...]

My New Book is Available (as eBook)

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar is now available in electronic form. You can get it from Simon & Schuster, or less expensively on the Kindle from Amazon.com.
The book is about learning. It’s about alternatives to schooling and certification. But it also describes how I became a tester, and why I progressed as a tester.
The hardcover version, [...]