It’s been almost four months that people have been working remotely – many from the unfortunate locations of their couch, coffee tables, basements with no windows, the list goes on and on. These aren’t ideal workplace scenarios for many – they didn’t volunteer to be work remotely on the flip of a coin, they were told not to come in. On Remotely Prepared, we do our best to help you navigate this new environment and…
If you want the next app you write to be the greatest thing since slice bread there are two things you need to build into it. One solve a problem, this is key, if you’re not solving a problem, you’re building a game, that’s okay, but we’re in it to solve problems. Next once you solve that problem, create a way for them to bring their team into the mix. Not their friends, but their…
We worry too much about messing things up. When we should be worrying about holding back and not messing it up in the first place. It’s the mess that shows us how best to clean things up and make them better then they were before. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared…
It’s days like these that I am reminded of the times I had 8 Hyper-V servers running at full capacity in my basement throughout the winter. I would do my best to block the heat as best I could but I could hear them grinding away in my basement. It was when summer came around that the AC could go back on and cool them down giving them a reprieve from their long winters work.…
How many times have you tried to write all your code into the IDE all at once to see how far you could get with compiling it in your head to play through how it would work before you actually hit F5? I’ve gone pretty far and then I reach a point where I want to just keep going, I don’t want to know the real-time result because what I’ve played through in my head…