Month: January 2018

January 17, 2018

Greg Thomas

Find Your Code Aura

Have you ever experienced that glow effect around your code? That bright aura that starts off as a dim light but slowly grows brighter and brighter? The more scenarios and changes that are thrown at your code, the better it performs, updates and minimizes downtime? Not only does your code look good but so do you? Actually, people don’t even talk about it being your code any more it’s simply the “INSERT_APP_CODENAME_HERE” – it was a life of its own and commands the respect of all those that connect and interface with it. That’s the code you want to write.

January 16, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Whining Game

I’d like there to be a National Whining Day. Where for the entire day – there is no school, no work, no projects, no deliverables, no nothing. Everyone steps outside their door, family, dog and all and lets it out – says everything they need to say about everything that is bothering them at the top of their lungs. No snippy comments or sarcastic remarks just full on screaming at the top of our lungs about anything and everything that YOU feel is holding YOU back. Then, in that moment we could take in how silly we look and start

January 15, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Business Canvas Model

Writing Business Plans can be laborious and often feel like you are hiding out somewhere instead of actually doing “the work”. I don’t know how much of it is really avoiding “the work” but I do know they can at times feel incredibly detailed, ornate and when going through the numbers at some point they become magical – especially if you are seeking to a establish a new market or concept. After reading the book on the Business Model Canvas – I wanted to try out creating my own model for BetaRover Inc and compare the process to what I

January 12, 2018

Greg Thomas

Designing without Knowing the Problem

How do you start designing a solution without understanding the requirements? How do you start building the marketing campaign without knowing your audience? How do you starting testing for performance when you don’t know the baseline to start from? You definitely can start doing all these things, no one is stopping you. But you will miss the mark simply because you and your team didn’t understand the problem when they started working on it. And without knowing what problem you are going to solve, you will always get it wrong.

January 11, 2018

Greg Thomas

Measure Your Mark

Every year I like to take stock of where I’ve come from and where I’m going. It’s my own moment of looking back and focussing on what is next. Measure Your Mark 2016 Measure Your Mark 2017 What did I do in 2017 compared to last year? 12 Pluralsight Courses Completed 260 Rambli Posts 11 articles on other sites Published and Presented How To Become a Great StoryTeller Started Forgotten Coder Started a Medium Blog and began contributing to It’s Your Turn Launching BetaRover and getting the message out. Started BetaRover Inc. Cofounded the Sniffing Markers Podcast Now to break it.

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