July 31, 2022
Doesn’t matter what your platform of choice is – SLACK, TEAMS, Workspace – hidden channels that are implemented with the goal of not chatting with people of your team, hurt your team. If you are running one, you should ask yourself why you’re doing it and if you’re included in one, you should ask yourself why you are there. If answers to both leave you feeling unsure, then you have your answer as to what to do next.
July 30, 2022
Lately, I’ve been working on a few projects where I find we are doing the same things over and over again that we have done for years. Security implementations that are either overtly cumbersome or miss out on base security role implementation requirements End to End trace logging through back-end systems. Performance Injection for how bad something is going without having to rebuild the code each time Distribution of Notifications Frameworks that scale as they grow (not just a “here’s how you send this” type of thing) Those are the problems I keep seeing over and over again.
July 29, 2022
There comes a time in every developer’s life when they realize they need to write better tests. Whether it’s a console, web, or unit test, they need to write better tests. If you’re at this point, here are some elements that are important to writing great tests; They should be objective – the result is the result is the result – there is no complex interpretation. They should be measurable – whether they do it or not and how fast or slow do they take. They should NOT require intervention – if someone has to flip 15 switches and jump
July 28, 2022
Never have been, never will be. We keep trying to solve them with technology, but they aren’t. The problem with meetings is that we all have different expectations of what they should and should not be, who should be invited, when they should begin, what their value is, and what should happen before and/or after them to make them a success and whether they should be on a recurring basis or not. But we don’t want to sit down and talk about it. That’s our biggest problem with meetings and you can’t put a technology facade over that and expect
July 27, 2022
It is easy to organize something for ourselves. We know ourselves inside and out and can respond to simple changes without even thinking about it. It’s akin to being a passenger on a bumpy road where the driver is swerving to avoid the bumps and potholes – they know what’s coming, they are processing actions and ready for them. But you’re not and you’re dealing with them as they come. Your team is the passenger and if you’re swerving all over the place, making decisions on the fly, changing what you are going to do, not communicating with them. All
