It’s been done, there are no more wheels to invent. You can make them faster, you can use different materials, you can control them remotely and I’m sure there are a hundred other things you can do to tweak them and make them better. But you can’t reinvent them. The same might be for your product, your code, your team – you can’t reinvent it, it’s there, it works, it might need some tweaks, but…
We use estimations to determine when we are delivering work, what needs to be done, and why. What often gets missed is understanding what the expectations are for the estimations that are being given. What is it exactly that people are looking for? (And why?) A few answers; How well do you understand the problem?How confident are you in what you are delivering?Are you building the right thing?Have you thought of “other stuff”?Who needs to…
I once worked with someone who would start complex problem/requirements discussions with this statement. It immediately set the room and easy while at the same time getting us all pumped up for a challenge. “WE CAN CODE ANYTHING” Those four words conveyed so much… We’ll figure this out.I have confidence in everyone’s abilities in the room.We can do this together.We might not know the answer, but we know the path to get there.I have faith.…
I love coding against APIs that other people have written. I think part of it is the entire idea around someone giving you a view into their world and how to do things within it and then you as a developer being able to connect that view to other views (APIs) that people have built. It’s that big wide-open connection of libraries that is just so completely interesting to see and work with. I say…
If you have never had to performance tune your own code, you’re missing out. There is no greater satisfaction than watching your code run more efficiently and better than it did before. The best thing about performance tuning is the metrics for measurement are simple – go faster and don’t consume more than what you are already taking. If you can do those two things, your code is running better than it did before while…