Month: December 2016

December 9, 2016

Greg Thomas

Career Offroading

Your career shouldn’t be a drive in sedan, to and from the office every day and night listening to the podcast du jour. It should be an off-road adventure on a bike as you peddle as fast and as furiously as you can with only your own momentum to push you up and down the hills as you careen off and back onto the path in front of you. It should involve taking chances, taking risks, trying something new and zigzagging across different places all the while collecting experience along the way. It doesn’t have to be paid – you

December 8, 2016

Greg Thomas

True Developer Magic

The pixie dust, the magic potions, the unicorns or rainbows. All developer magic to make what was broken work again. All creative ideas, ingenuity, random thoughts, the willingness to try something new. All within the absence of patterns, factories, frameworks, guidelines and points. But the very best magic, the magic that takes what was broken to working once again – is the magic that which leverages what is there, what is broken and makes it shine once more.

December 7, 2016

Greg Thomas

Wipe the Board

I keep all my random thoughts, ideas, suggestions, AHA moments in a trello board called ideas.  Every few months I go back and prune the board – removing ideas that are no longer relevant, adding on to extra cards so they have a little more context and completing deleting cards that I have utterly no idea what they meant when I wrote them down. This week I wiped the board completely clean – purged it all – started fresh. I then spent the next 30 minutes coming up with at least 15 – 30 new ideas for what could be

December 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

Why do I do this?

I get these questions every now and again. Why? Where’s the value? Where do the posts come from? What’s it for? So here goes… Why?  I like to try new things, I like to challenge myself in new endeavors and I like to see where things can go if you put enough effort into them. Where’s the value?  I hope it’s in what I write and hope it’s how I get better each and every day. Where do the posts come from?  Oh everywhere, life around me.  I’ve written posts about how a cashier treated someone who had a problem, how a

December 5, 2016

Greg Thomas

Would you still be willing to try?

If you knew how long a project you were just assigned was really going to take would you take it on? Would knowing up front all the heartache, late nights, early mornings, frustrations or setbacks change your decisions? Would you go forward with a new plan to try and mitigate all those factors and make it better or just jump in with reckless abandon? It’s not a question of whether you’d pass or fail, but rather whether you’d still be willing to try? Sometimes that all it is, even when you know the answer, would you still be willing to

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