Every application has some level of Technical Debt. Some of it exists in our tracking systems, but most of it exists in our minds, slack channels, or forgotten conversations we have with each other, later to be forgotten when we start on something else. One of the hardest jobs of being a Software Manager is being able to enunciate where your team’s debt is and push the work that needs to be done, to get…
We all have leftover code lying around ready to be used. But like any type of leftovers, they are not perfect. They need to be reheated, perhaps rejigged into something else, maybe even dressed up a little more. No one eat’s leftovers as is, code snippet leftovers are the same, they are a start to something better.
If you’re looking for loopholes to save the day and get your project done or product out the door you better be prepared to keep looking. Because once you find one loophole, chances are you are going to need another. And once you find that one, you’ll then need another. Loopholes are cyclical implementations of constantly trying to find your way out of a problem of your own creation. The further down the loophole you…
You can either tackle a code performance when it happens (i.e., fight the fires) or you can create a plan to tackle it. You will never get away from fighting the fire approach, a scenario, a use case, will always pop up and make you stop and think – “huh, I never thought about that”. But you can look to the other 90% of scenarios that you know of and work through the scenarios that…
You can go out and do things when the weather is bad. But you don’t want to do it all the time. Who wants to have a picnic day in and day out in the rain, each and every day. No one. Every now and again we’ll make an allowance for it so we can “brave the weather” and not “wimp out” – but doing this day in and day out is enough to have…