I never heard that phrase until I became a developer – “We should get it for free.” What does that even mean? You mean by putting all this effort into creating something, where I’ve put blood, sweat and tears into it all, when something goes wrong… I should get it for free? Or, because I coded this up so well, if we need to tweak something in there, we should get that part for free? Or,…
Have you ever felt the need to put something like this at the bottom of your emails as your signature line? Forgive the lack of clarity in this email… I am doing so many things concurrently that my responses have become erratic and chaotic at best, misleading at worst. If you are in any way confused by what I have written please reach out to me for further clarity and don’t worry – I won’t…
I’ve batted this idea back and forth many times in my head, what is the best size for a team? At what size does the team remain too small to not accomplish enough and at what size does a team become too large that more time is spent on administration, overhead and the team eventually starts to slow. Whether it’s a startup or an established company, team cohesion and leadership is critical to success. What…
This isn’t a new term, it’s nothing you have not heard from. When selling products or services to customers there is an exchange that happens between the buyer and seller for the receipt of the product and/or service. To the seller it is what they need to earn in order to keep doing what they do, to the buyer, it is what they need to pay to attain the product and/or service (ps). The buyer will…
The Perfect Software Architecture has the following characteristics; It starts backup when the server goes down. When an internal component fails, it restarts it, releases the instance and starts again. It can run for hours, days, weeks, months and years with no maintenance. If a connection to another system fails, it lets you know but never stops. It doesn’t fault. It doesn’t require a secondary service to “watch it”. It just works. Note: There is nothing in…