Articles for category: Drive

February 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

Hitting the Wall

Here’s the thing no one says about the Wall. We all hit it. All the time. Every day. In different ways then how everyone else hits it, at different activities, on different projects, with different people. There is not safety from not hitting the wall. At some point in your life, you will crash into the wall, slam hard into it via a slow-motion montage action movie shot. If you haven’t hit it, you have, you just didn’t give it a name, you got up and moved on. And that’s what you do when you hit the wall, you get

February 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

Battle of the # BOTS

Try a hashtag and get some retweets and likes. Now what did the use of that wonderful hashtag get you? You could write anything in the world and use that hashtag and get the same number of retweets, likes and engagements? Your business/side hustle/portfolio/project isn’t driven by the number of followers, shares or likes that you get – it’s driven by what you do, when you need to do it.

February 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

The “Extra” Remote Work

We know we’re all doing it. We check our email another few times. We put the polish on that last piece of code, work, idea so we can “jump” in tomorrow. We try to replicate our old routines in the remote world but they don’t quite fit so then we try and figure them out a little more. When it’s just you that’s remote, the extra isn’t as much as it normally is, but when everyone is remote, the extra grows, it grows because we’re all in the same boat and we’re all trying to figure it out. Put the

February 1, 2021

Greg Thomas

Debugging and Troubleshooting

If you can do either, you’re a developer ahead of the game of many others. These are two of the most important skills when becoming a developer because at their core they speak to creating and fixing code. Debugging – Walking through your own code to see if there are errors and/or running your own code to replicate errors. Troubleshooting – Getting an error sent to you that requires you to dig through the code you built and the tools you have given yourself to identify the source of the problem. One supports the other. Over time, I have become

January 31, 2021

Greg Thomas

It’s Cold Out

I think it was Grade 10 or 11 and I was reading a book by Farley Mowat – perhaps Never Cry Wolf? To be honest, I can’t remember. But what I do remember is this one line that he wrote in it that went something like this (paraphrasing) – “When it’s cold outside, it’s the only time we can feel alive.” It’s cold outside. I can vouch for this and it’s a great feeling.

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