Yes, your release is late. Yes, the bugs are piling up. Yes, you have code that needs to go out the door. Yes, your chats are blowing up with everyone and anyone messaging you. Getting angry, chippy, or frustrated doesn’t help the problem and doesn’t help your team. Be the calm within the storm. The release will go out, the more bugs that are found the better the quality, your code will see the light…
Here’s how you run performance, scalability, and load tests. Write down what you are going to test. Write down how you are going to test it. Write down how you are going to measure the test. Run the test. Report on the test. Rinse, Tweak, and Repeat Don’t worry if, in the first round, you get it wrong, that’s why you rinse, tweak and repeat to keep getting better and better at it. Most times…
No one wants to do the heavy lifting, especially if you’ve done it before, you know just how heavy it can really be and that what is being said at that next meeting or on paper is just a glimpse into what is required. But at the end of the day, it needs to get done and you can either ignore it or start lifting. What you might not realize is that if you’re seeing…
Setbacks are minor disruptions in our plans to try something new. Blowbacks are the unintended consequences when someone comes down on us because our plan didn’t work. Setbacks are not equal to Blowbacks. We have the choice to recover from Setbacks, Blowbacks we have no control over (so stop worrying about them).
I have my favourite tools to do building projects with. I don’t even know if I always need them, but when starting a new project, I always bring them. And eventually, I need them. They are the old stalwarts that never fail. Similarly, the tools I write and code with don’t change much anymore. I’ve tried a variety of tools but they generally all come back to the same ones. I drift back because they…