July 16, 2022
Try… Catch… Wonder…
Try – What we are attempting to do. Catch – If what I was trying to do doesn’t work and it blows up, Wonder – Perhaps I should try this alternate path instead. It sounds nicer than Finally.
Articles for category: Delivery
July 14, 2022
Coding Under Pressure
You have 8 eight hours to fix this issue that you know nothing about with minimal logging, maybe a screenshot, and 5 customers all complaining about similar issues but not really the core of the issue. Go. No one wants to work like that and yet we let it happen again and again and those that do it are proclaimed as heroes for saving the day. Here’s the hero I want – the one that prevents these days from arising the other 364 days of the year. Now that’s Leadership.
July 11, 2022
Meetings to Talk
I love the thrill coming out of a good meeting – one where a problem was discussed, a plan put in place, and the next steps laid out. It is the perfect definition for a meeting if ever there was one. Then there are the meetings to “talk”, where we schedule up the talk and take time from people’s day to have the talk. That is called a conversation, it doesn’t need to be scheduled, it just needs to be discussed. But if you find yourself having many conversations on the same topic, perhaps it’s that you don’t know what
July 9, 2022
The Grunting Grind
There comes a time when the work just needs to get done. There is no easy way around it, it just needs to happen. It might not be the most glorifying work, but it’s the work that needs to be done. Pen to Paper, Hand to Keyboard, Code to Compiler. You can keep waiting, or you can start grinding.
July 7, 2022
Asynchronous Waiting
Asynchronous communication allows for Job A to continue while another Job B happens in parallel. When Job B has completed, it will let Job A know so that Job A can continue along. The idea is that we are not blocked waiting for Job B to finish and other jobs can carry on while we “wait” for Job B to get done. At some point Job A will have to wait for Job B to complete, but hopefully, it will not be as bad as if it were a serial operation. Athletes are great at asynchronous operations – when they