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It's a long story... In about 2001 I set up this domain and web site. I originally had a banal
page dedicated to open source software, software testing and the intersection of
the two, open source test tools. At the time I was a resident columnist at a trade
publication. I wrote for the magazine under the name ou_ryperd, and because I
was a foaming-at-the-mouth Linux advocate, I used the moniker
/home/ou_ryperd$ to resemble a Bash prompt. The name ou_ryperd came from my
first testing job in 2001, where I was testing a system and I had several
Afrikaans song-related user names. This one stuck, because I found the most bugs
with it. The image was the accompanying graphic for my column, and was custom
drawn by a retained artist for the mag. The company I worked for and the magazine
are both long gone.

The site went through several phases, one of them as a personal wiki. Then, around
2008 I stopped maintaining it and eventually took it off line. I was instead
spending my free time earning pocket money with technical writing instead. Late in
2018, as frustrated writer without an outlet I decided to reboot this site, mostly
around a Groovy cheat sheet page, and here we are. This image is a small relic of
the distant past.

Programming & tech:
Groovy for testers
SoapUI examples
VBScript for testers
Java shortcuts
Security testing

Other stuff:
Some personal writings
Piping
KPPB
Pipe notes
eChanter
3D printed chanter
Links

Codewars

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