Articles for category: Initiative

September 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

Dead Code

There is a difference between commenting out code and leaving old code in a solution. It is assuredly impossible for commented code to call because it might never exist (if compiled) or because it is commented, it can never be reached. But when you enter into the practice of deploying code that lives but is never called, rest assured, where there is a code path, there is a way, and that code could at some point be called or at worst, triggered by another event or even worst, exploited. Keep it clean, delete your old code, send it to the

September 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

What is Done?

Done, is not always the checkbox on the project plan. Sometimes, Done can be the first step in having an idea of what to do next and creating the spark for the discussion that will ensue. Done can be so much more than what we treat it as today.

September 5, 2022

Greg Thomas

Leverage your Platform

When multi-core computers hit the mark, developers could now scale their applications to use most of each and every CPU at their disposal. To ignore them and run only one core was an utter waste of your application.  The change to implement was worth it, the learning and the time were well spent because leveraging more of what the platform had to offer made a better story for all involved. The same with the cloud, there is more, a great deal more to configure, set up, and walkthrough, but it’s all there, for you to leverage and get the most

September 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

Are you a plumbing company?

If you are a plumbing company, you are building infrastructure. You are connecting point A to B, you are making sure “stuff” goes where it is supposed to go, you are ensuring there is no waste in the system and you are ensuring that it will always work all the time. If this is the company that you are, then you should be building and selling plumbing all the time. If you are not this company, then the question you need to ask yourself is – “why are we building so much plumbing?”. Find libraries, the code, the platforms that

August 30, 2022

Greg Thomas

When it Rains…

… it will pour, it will sour on every idea and plan that you had that were meticulously and perfectly planned. So have a backup for what happens, when you can’t do that one thing that you had planned for. If we should have learned anything over the past few years, have a backup, always have a backup.

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