Articles for category: Delivery

July 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

Your Next Great App

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 team. This isn’t a social app you are creating (unless it is), it’s a killer app. Solving a problem, knowing that the problem belongs to

July 17, 2020

Greg Thomas

Always Make a Mess

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 podcast.

July 16, 2020

Greg Thomas

Ye Old Servers

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. And on days like this, I would never hear a thing because they would be so happy to be so perfectly chilled. Every time the

July 9, 2020

Greg Thomas

Compile Once

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 is guaranteed to be much better than what’s going to happen. In my head it is working beyond measure, it’s incredible, it takes a licking

July 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

Updates all Day, Every Day

There was a time when we complained about how long Microsoft Windows Updates would take to download and install to our machines. We setup “update” evenings to process all the updates that were in the backlog. Updates that were looked at and evaluated for close to three weeks before being applied to the servers. Now you wake up and 15 updates have been applied to your phone and a new feature has been installed to your desktop. Now the question isn’t the updates, the size of the updates or the frequency – it’s how to prepare your users and your

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