Back for 2019, Sniffing Markers with a new intro and a new format. Check out my Ode to the Whiteboard. Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share...
My best, most productive lunch meetings have been simple affairs. Get a shawarma, find a spot, eat. Go to the place we always go to, order the same thing we always order, discuss. It’s the routine of it that makes the lunch meeting successful. It’s elimination of spending 20 minutes to decide what you want and before that umpteen text messages of where you are going to meet. The...
If you are looking to go to the cloud. I mean really go to the cloud, not simply hosting a bunch of VMs in the cloud. Make a small change today to get there. Start deploying test services in the cloud. Don’t deploy anything that requires a local database. Don’t create local virtual machines to work on projects. Start using GIT or TFS Online (or both). Transition from local...
If you’re building up that long wait for your community, building that tension, that anticipation, that excitement with teasers, social media posts, behind the scenes views and on and on and on. You better make sure if lives up to the hype. If what you’re building isn’t going to live up to the hype, dial it down, put out the updates, keep them succinct and focussed...
If you love something enough no one can stop you from doing it. If you’re stuck in a job where you are constantly being told any of the following; “No, that’s not the right way.” “No, you’re doing it wrong” “No, you should be doing this instead” “No, you cannot make your own choices” Despite giving your best, despite trying to...