Articles for category: Drive

December 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Edge Case Test

I’m not the greatest QA tester.  I’m not even sure if you’d consider me mid-level. But I know the results of what happens when you don’t test properly when all you focus on is the happy path and never consider what might go wrong. Edge cases aren’t my master but they do sit at the back of my mind, driving the course of development so I can be sure they are accounted for in what I deliver.  I might screw them up the first few times, but when I go to the demo, they would have been thought of and

December 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Last Day

Last Days of employment right now must be a bit problematic.  Chances of that team lunch that stretches into the evening aren’t happening.  That last chat with your manager where the two of you bare your souls and talk about the future is happening over a zoom call where you wave goodbye to each other (or not at all). Are you even handing in your equipment or shipping it off three weeks later with some label on it to an office where no one is at? What about knowledge transfer?  Is it happening or do we simply think it is

December 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Knowing Your Metrics

What matters most to you? Is it how much you earn? What do you do with those earnings? How many pull requests you can handle in a day? How many deployments do you do in a month? How many people are on your team? This list can go on and on forever, but what really matters is knowing what metrics matter to you the most.  If you sell software it’s either about users, subscriptions, warranties, monthly sign-ups, etc, etc.  Those are the metrics they need to stay in business and keep going. The question is – what metrics do you

December 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Staying Remotely Healthy

It’s been a wild two years of working remote and I think many of us are now looking at our health and wondering what we need to do to either improve it or keep what we are doing going. Remote Health definitely falls into the category of “easier said than done” but here are some tips on to make a better go at things on the latest episode of Remotely Prepared.