Articles for category: Initiative

July 23, 2020

Greg Thomas

Everyone Can Learn

I’ve been coding for over 20 years – YIKES – where did the years go. No matter what my job title is, I always find myself coding and learning. I’ve recently taken up the #100DaysOfCode challenge to push myself to get back to learning something completely brand new outside of my normal wheelhouse, to push and challenge myself. It’s a challenge. I stop the tutorials more than I thought I would, but I’m enjoying the time spent learning. I try to get through a tutorial or so a day, if I can do that, I’ve made progress. In every project

July 21, 2020

Greg Thomas

Getting Punted from RDP

When you’re working on a problem with someone, trying to figure out what is going, what is happening, who is going to do what, what’s next, etc, etc. Whatever it is, whenever there is someone else working on the problem with me, when I see that prompt that I’m about to get punted from a Remote Desktop Session… I feel a wave of relief knowing I’m not alone and there is a team working with me to get the problem done. From there, we’ll figure it out. But you need a team, that has that trust in each other, to

July 17, 2020

Greg Thomas

Always Make a Mess

We worry too much about messing things up. When we should be worrying about holding back and not messing it up in the first place. It’s the mess that shows us how best to clean things up and make them better then they were before. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).  I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.

July 13, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remote Team Fatigue

You would have to be a robot (or a chatbot) to not realize that your team is most likely starting to feel the effects of Remote Work Fatigue. Either they have or they are on their way to feeling it. These are one of those moments in your role as being a leader that you will forever remember how you responded and helped your team work through this milieu. For many it is starting to set in that they probably won’t be back in the office for a few more months, maybe more. In which case, they have more of

July 7, 2020

Greg Thomas

Leadership Init();

For whatever reason, whenever I write code, I use the constructor to do some stuff to get the main object loaded – some basic stuff – setup some variables and collections but when it comes to getting things going… woo boy… that’s when we call Init(). Init is what gets things going, it’s what makes code sing, it’s what starts the day at the races and gets your app up and running. When I call Initialize (or Init as seen quite often), it’s doing the heavy lifting to figure setup things and get the job done. I like using Init