It motivates you. It reminds you what you should be doing. It makes you smile. It provides a connection between you and everyone else looking at it. Or perhaps it does nothing at all and you simply keep scrolling on by on your feed du jour. Maybe you are sick and tired of quotes and all you want to do is turn them off, never to see them again. But if something so small has the…
You can’t deploy to Production because you didn’t fill out these forms. You can’t use this library because it goes against our standards. You can’t change that code because we don’t know what impact it will have. Some sample issues you probably hit as a developer that reveal themselves to be the problem. But they aren’t the problem, they are the symptoms. And you won’t always recognize them as the symptoms and not the primary…
Things are going rough, not getting better and you’re not sure where the end in sight is. You don’t feel driven, your motivation is in the tank, you wake-up and the first thing you do is grimace at what the day has to offer. You’re waiting for someone to realize what level of despair you’re in and charge forward to help you and pull you out of it. Only problem is you’re too good at…
I had the opportunity to go back to a school and talk some more about code. This time the focus was on IoT and Cloud – amazing to see the growth and development of the kids in the classroom. The full experience is on my LinkedIn article here and the full Slideshare presentation is here.
Your boss? Your spouse? Your unfinished manifesto? Your brother? Your team? Your incomplete ideas? Your landlord? Your company? Your dog? Your hangover? Your banged up car? Your tweaked muscle? Or maybe what’s holding you back is that big long list of excuses where you put the blame everywhere else except where it needs to be. Is someone visibly standing in your way telling you not to try out that new idea? Physically stopping you…