The Perfect Software Architecture has the following characteristics; It starts backup when the server goes down. When an internal component fails, it restarts it, releases the instance and starts again. It can run for hours, days, weeks, months and years with no maintenance. If a connection to another system fails, it lets you know but never stops. It doesn’t fault. It doesn’t require a secondary service to “watch it”. It just works. Note: There is nothing in…

There is a problem that arises when someone pivots in technology to a new platform, new language, new coding standard, etc. They expect to jump into that same level of position, but with only junior experience behind them. It’s a hard pivot – you’ve spent 10 years doing Oracle Databases and now you are a PHP programmer for 6 months?  Some of these pivots are complimentary where the skills carry over but sometimes they are not…

If you’ve read this blog for awhile then you know (I hope) that the general gist is around how you can become a Great Software Developer.  It’s not easy, it doesn’t happen overnight and there are a lot of steps you need to take to getting in there. In addition, part of this blog is a way for me to get better at writing and sharing these ideas out (bad grammar and all). To this end, I…

In this case, I need a coder, I need someone to assist on projects and products, I need someone to make a dent in the workload on our plates. That is today. Tomorrow, I will need a leader, someone to groom future team members and continue their growth by guiding, coaching and mentoring them.  I’ll need someone that does more then provide great bug regression counts but someone who can review others work and make…

Creating a standard off of a hunch is a risky endeavour, especially if that standard is meant to be used by everyone. For instance, there is no way I could write a standard today on the proper implementations of TypeScript.  I do not know enough to do it.  T-SQL coding?  For sure, I’ve used it at length and could throw something together.  But am I the guru and all knowing power behind T-SQL? Not a chance.…