Articles for category: Drive

What every bit of code you write should have

It should be testable. It should defend. It should be clear to understand. It should catch errors. If it is not the sole source of all the logging, it should provide valuable fragments that render what it logs usable. It should do what it is meant to do, not what we hope it to do

July 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

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.

LeftOver Code Snippets

We all have leftover code lying around ready to be used. But like any type of leftovers, they are not perfect. They need to be reheated, perhaps rejigged into something else, maybe even dressed up a little more. No one eat’s leftovers as is, code snippet leftovers are the same, they are a start to something better.

July 11, 2022

Greg Thomas

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 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

But does it work?

Possibly. Maybe. I think. It could. Well, it should do it. There is a chance. That’s what it was meant to do. All of these are good starting points, but they are not answers to the one question that matters – “Does it Work?” Where the only answer that matters is Yes or No.