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CASE 22
I was at CASE 22 conference this week. It was three day conference, but I was there only the last half of the last day, so I can not say a lot about it. So, I will just mention Davor Banović‘s talk on usability testing.
Since that is all I know, I talked about Watir.
It was “old school” conference, looks like I was the only one tweeting (#case22 at twitter.com and case22 at identi.ca).
ViaQA
Last week I was at ViaQA, small conference on software testing.
As usual, I was talking about Watir, and the rest of the speakers talked about integration testing, user interface testing, Microsoft tools for testing, open source tools for testing…
I have recorded a few podcasts (in Croatian), you can find them at the bottom of this post, or at Vidi Podkast. Only one podcast is published so far, I hope I will have some time in the next few weeks to publish them all. I will update this post when the podcasts are published.
We have started testers.shoutem.com micro blog before the conference, and you can take a look at #viaqa at twitter.com and viaqa at identi.ca.
My photos and Davor’s photos are available at Picasa Web Albums.
Podcasts (in Croatian):
Vidi Podkast #14 Davor Banović o ViaQA
Two Years of Watir Podcast
Watir Podcast Logo
Numbers
A few days ago it was 2 years since I published the first Watir Podcast.
In this 2 years I have published 34 podcasts with people literally all over the world. Lately I am trying to produce a podcast a month, and I am trying to keep it about 30 minutes long. I have recorded podcasts as short as 5 minutes, but also longer than 70 minutes.
Google Analytics and FeedBurner say the numbers are (mostly) going up. FeedBurner says about 100 people is subscribed to the podcast feed lately.
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FeedBurner
The following table lists downloads since December 2009, when I started using Podtrac. The first number is total downloads, the second number is unique downloads. Please notice #26. 
I am glad to see that podcasts as old as 1 or even 2 years are still downloaded.
| episode | total/unique |
|---|---|
| #34 Zhimin Zhan on TestWise | 70/57 |
| #33 Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij and UISpec | 221/191 |
| #32 Brent Strange | 276/249 |
| #31 Jari Bakken and Simon Stewart on Watir 2.0, Selenium and WebDriver, Celerity and HtmlUnit | 379/331 |
| #30 Jim Knowlton on Using Watir for Exploratory Testing | 402/373 |
| #29 Bret Pettichord and Charley Baker on Past, Present and Future of Watir | 283/262 |
| #28 Tom Copeland on SafariWatir | 225/217 |
| #27 Angrez Singh on FireWatir | 199/188 |
| #26 Alister Scott on Watir.com | 1,408/448 |
| #25 Dave Hoover on SafariWatir and Software Craftsmanship | 206/186 |
| #24 MarekJ and Charley Baker | 167/166 |
| #23 Željko Filipin | 171/168 |
| #22 Bret Pettichord on WatirCraft | 168/165 |
| #21 Alister Scott on Watif | 158/156 |
| #20 Sai Venkatakrishnan | 164/154 |
| #19 Bret Pettichord on Git | 143/137 |
| #18 Rick Hower on AWTA 2009 | 129/127 |
| #17 Deniz Türkoglu on AWTA 2009 | 137/132 |
| #16 MarekJ on AWTA 2009 | 144/143 |
| #15 Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory on AWTA 2009 and Agile Testing | 168/159 |
| #14 Steve Kim on AWTA 2009 | 138/134 |
| #13 Alister Scott on AWTA 2009 | 140/137 |
| #12 Bernie Miles and Stanislaw Wozniak on AWTA 2009 and Sponte | 125/118 |
| #11 Alan Baird on AWTA 2009 | 120/118 |
| #10 Charley Baker on AWTA 2009 | 131/125 |
| #9 Paul Rogers | 156/147 |
| #8 Alister Scott | 140/138 |
| #7 Bret Pettichord on FireWatir | 186/182 |
| #6 Tiffany Fodor | 155/154 |
| #5 Walter Kruse | 109/107 |
| #4 Jeroen van Menen on WatiN | 159/147 |
| #3 MarekJ | 159/154 |
| #2 Charley Baker | 124/121 |
| #1 Bret Pettichord on Watir | 170/164 |
Thank You
After two years, what to say? It was a lot of fun, I hope it will not end soon.
I would like to thank everybody that wanted to talk with me. I would probably stop recording podcast if I did not have a lot of help from Watir Podcast Team. A big thank you to all of you that co-hosted a podcast, contributed music and logo, worked on the web site, edited audio… I could not do it without you.
I would like to thank Bret Pettichord for agreeing to record the first podcast, Alan Baird that worked on the web site, and Gregg Yows that co-hosted a lot of times and contributed a lot of music.
I would probably give up a long time ago if Tiffany Fodor did not offer to edit the audio and create show notes. Tiffany, thank you.
Also, a bit thank you to every listener. Yes, you too. Well, if you were not listening, all this would not make a lot of sense.
If you have some time, and you would like to contribute to the podcast, please let me know. I need help with finding guests, co-hosting, I am always looking for music that can be published under a Creative Commons licence… If you would like to take over Watir Podcast, let me know. I would help you with everything. I have other stuff to do, but if nobody is interested, I will not let the podcast die.
I did not mention a lot of people by name, because this blog post would end up being too long. You know who you are. Yes, you. Thanks.
