TLDR; January content contains links to updated practice applications, and new videos.
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Twitter January 2021
- Java Magazine Article on trusted code
- A good introduction to Cybernetics
- Using Graph Theory to Explore a Domain
- Interview with Mary Catherine Bateson - Cybernetics related
- Free ZAP Conference in March
- 6 Data Scraping Tools for Data Science
- IntelliJ Tips
- AI For Text Adventure Game Playing
- Hacking an Android Game
- REST API testing academic paper
- XSS Cheatsheet
- Example videos from students explaining what they learned useful example of buildinng your profile
- Test Tribe TestFlix ebook
- Security Testing recon in action
- Java Annotated Newsletter
- Free Deep learning AI course creating bots to play games
- State Machines and Graph Walker
- When is a model not a model
- 13K JavaScript Games learn JS by studying the code
Blog Posts For January 2021
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Test JS Summit Day One LiveStream
- Live Stream of Test JS Summit Day One free on the 28th January 2021
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API Testing Challenge - How To - HEAD todos 200
- How to solve API challenge HEAD todos 200
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API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 201
- How to solve API challenge POST todos 201 to create a todo item in the application.
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A Trail of Code - 001 Find Dupes and Delete
- A retrospective look at some of my earliest code on Github, why I released it, and why you should feel competent enough to release your code.
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API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos 200 filter
- How to solve API challenge GET todos 200 filter to use URL parameters to filter the results.
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API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 400
- How to solve API challenge POST todos 400 to amend the request details such that they fail validation.
Patreon Posts For January 2021
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- Probably not, but that’s not really what we want to be.
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- Lesssons learned learning to say No
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Live stream of Test JS Summit Day 1
- Live stream of TestJS Summit. Day 1
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- Research far beyond the core topic.
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Get Your Own House In Order First
- Prior to complaining about the environment I’m in, I try to get my own house in order.
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- Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again
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API Testing Challenge - How To - POST todos 400
- how to complete the challenge
POST /todos (400)
to fail to create a todo item in the application due to not passing validation
- how to complete the challenge
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API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos 200 filter
- post and video shows how to complete the challenge
GET /todos (200) ? filter
to create a todo item in the application
- post and video shows how to complete the challenge
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- Patreon API Challenges Index
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- Modelling and Action.
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- Finding exemplars to learn from in reporting evidence seems hard.
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The Best Thing About Open Sourcing
- The best thing about open sourcing your work is when:
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other people use it - other people contribute to it
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Lessons learned from some insecure PHP SQL coding
- Some SQL Injection exploration from a PHP homework assignment.
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How Open Is Your Communication?
- A company that exemplifies open communication is Gitlab.
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IDOR in the News, What can we learn?
- Direct Object References concepts can also be useful to us when testing.
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Content Summary for December 2020
- Content Summary for December 2020
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- December’s monthly collated pdfs
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- Names are ambigous, we have to additional context, and be careful they don’t limit our thinking.
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- Recursion as problem solution rather than an alternative to iteration.
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Some tipping point factors when hiring
- There is an intangible part of the interview process that is very hard to control or practice for.
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- I prefer tools I can script, because then I can make them fit my process, rather than force me to fit their process.
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- 65 page free ebook on Learning JavaScript by Hacking games and applications.
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Ticket Giveaway to Test JS Summit
- The Test JS Summit) conference offered me 5 free tickets to their conference to giveaway.
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Sales Manual for Aga Cookers 1935
- What lessons can be learned from a sales manual for cookers written in 1935?
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Harnessing the Benefits of Pairing
- Cross discipline pairing can be hard but has many useful benefits.
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- Test JS Summit Discount Coupon
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- Using the script overrides in Chrome to work with the challenges.
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TestMas 2020 - Challenge 13 - Look behind all doors, explained
- At least 4 different ways of peeking behind the TestMas doors explained in video.
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- I still practice to maintain my testing attitude because I don’t want to hesitate to test something.
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Challenge 13 - view the messages before the due date
- When I look at systems, I like to set myself ‘challenges’. This helps me find ways of practicing my testing and technical skills.
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