Month: August 2015

August 10, 2015

Greg Thomas

It Should Just Work

These are the famous last words of a developer who is hoping that what exists will solve your problem.  They might not fully understand your problem – where the should comes in – but they have some pretty solid confidence in their code in which it will work. It’s hard to go through your career as a developer and never utter this statement – I have done it myself many times at the end of a late night deploy – it was probably more hope than belief at that point.  At that point, you’ve been up late, probably trying to

August 9, 2015

Greg Thomas

Get a Theme Song

Everyone needs something to pick them up when they are down and the best way to do this is to find a theme song.  This doesn’t have to be a Top 40 hit, it could be anything  – a song you enjoy, the theme song to a favourite TV show or perhaps even a song from a musical you just saw – the point is – Get a Theme Song. Components for a successful Theme Song; It must resonate with you, lifting up, pushing you harder. It must give you that kick in the butt that you’ve been waiting for, but

August 8, 2015

Greg Thomas

Customization as a Product

Every time I take my family to a certain Coffee Outlet, I am simply gobsmacked by the number of times our order is wrong.  It was got to the point where my wife and I now split up the kids to make the order smaller but even then it still comes back as something we didn’t ask for. In my most recent encounter, I stood at the cash looking at my kids (the customers) who need to customize their meal, because they are picky (like your customers) and were met with a certain look of disdain because they wanted to

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