Articles for category: Drive

September 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

Are you a plumbing company?

If you are a plumbing company, you are building infrastructure. You are connecting point A to B, you are making sure “stuff” goes where it is supposed to go, you are ensuring there is no waste in the system and you are ensuring that it will always work all the time. If this is the company that you are, then you should be building and selling plumbing all the time. If you are not this company, then the question you need to ask yourself is – “why are we building so much plumbing?”. Find libraries, the code, the platforms that

August 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

We Don’t Need Two-Minute Fixes

A Two-Minute Fix leads to bugs later on that were missed during testing and features and functionality that were omitted. No one wants to hear about how fast it can be done, what they want to hear is when can it be done right. Big difference.

August 16, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Drive Behind your Work

What do you get up for in the morning? What do you enjoy? What makes you want to keep pushing forward? What spurns you to do better at what you are working on? What motivates you? What should you focus on that you aren’t focusing on? What’s your Drive?

August 13, 2022

Greg Thomas

Your Code will Blow Chunks

That’s right. One day, it will roll over, throw up, and die in a horrible fashion – probably during a big demo, a heavy usage day, or when one of your new customers is using it. Whatever the reason, it won’t be opportune but it will happen. The question is what are you going to do about it? Blame the users? Get mad a the sales team? Wonder why we hadn’t restarted it so long? Or instead of all that, maybe you’ll start figuring out what went wrong.

August 11, 2022

Greg Thomas

Where you Code?

I am not, nor will I ever be a front-end developer. It’s not where I excel, it’s not where I want to excel. I know what looks good, and what colors I like, but in all honesty, this doesn’t mean I am a designer either, it just means I like what I like. The idea of a full-stack developer has been around forever and dates back to the days of DLLs, COM, VB6, and all these other great tools. Full-stack is just another word for – “someone who does it all”. I work in the back-end, everything from the service