Remember the reason why you were not willing to switch from your Blackberry to the new iPhone or Android phone years ago? Remember the reason you kept holding on until the very end because you thought you’d be getting all those new goodies that the next generation of smartphones had? Take a second and think about it – what was really holding you back. Now take a look at your phone du jour – iPhone…

I strongly dislike conversations about Change. I like Change, but eschew conversations about it. Long, drawn out conversations, with many milestones, devil’s advocates discussions that lead into follow-ups to the follow-ups and target dates for delivery some time next month at the end of a cycle that may or may not happen. It get’s exhausting. What I do like is change. The conversations that take 15 minutes and establish a new direction that everyone moves…

Of all the peeves that drive developers crazy, it’s messy code, cluttered code, code that works, but is not as good as it could be. When we’ve finally had enough – we Refactor it and clean it up. When we check in that refactored code, most likely it breaks a slew of sloppy code somewhere else, so we go fix that. And we keep doing that – build, fail, clean, build, fail, clean – practice…

As we progress in our careers and rise through the proverbial ranks we must never forget to stop and look back. Whether it’s a new process, idea, suggestion, etc, we must always have the strength and desire to look back – analyze what went right or wrong and identify what we can borrow from that experience to get better for the next one. A good way to think of this is to take every process,…

Two years ago when I went to rebuild my computer I would do the following; Backup all my personal files to a drive. Gather all my installs that I had download and put them on a drive. Get all bookmarks and favourites together so I wouldn’t lose them. Grab my mail files Format PC. Fiddled around with my drivers. Restore all that I backed up. Here is what I did a few weeks ago when…