Articles for category: Drive

Show Them How Much You Love It

Want to show how good you are at something? Want people to see how good you are? Show them how much you love it. Even if it doesn’t go your way, what’s the worst that happened? You showed them how much you love it and that will never change.

Whose your Leader?

When working with a new group, you need an early adopter, someone that buys into what you are doing and can help push the idea to everyone. This is your leader, the person that you can get to buy into what you are doing and work with you to get your message out, this is someone who will always be listening and never doubting what you are saying. This person will help get the rest of the team onboard so your message can get out and grow faster. Ask yourself, whose your leader and what do you need to do

Social Sharing goes Boink

If you were unable to share your blog, your code, your latest article, or everything you are working on today. If you could not get the word out on socials, how would you do it? That’s your growth strategy, that’s how you’re going to ship, everything else you add on top of it, will be gray.

Software Architecture is Constantly Evolving

Guess what – MicroServices is no longer a big thing, Monoliths are back in the fold and soon n-tier will be the next big thing once again. While we are at, let’s think about what is the best for configuration files – registry settings, key vaults, database, json or .config files. There can only be one way that is right correct? I have a preferred architecture I like to go to every time I’m designing a new solution, it’s called common sense.  Do what works for your application, that scales and performs to what you need it to. When thinking

The Time Between Meetings

You have a day full of meetings with 15 to 30-minute breaks in between. What can you accomplish that you can finish within that timeframe without returning an hour later and having to start all over again? It might take a while to figure it out, but that’s the idea, to think about it and have it ready when those moments do popup so that at the end of the day you aren’t wondering what you wasted 2 hours of your time on.