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July 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

Updates all Day, Every Day

There was a time when we complained about how long Microsoft Windows Updates would take to download and install to our machines. We setup “update” evenings to process all the updates that were in the backlog. Updates that were looked at and evaluated for close to three weeks before being applied to the servers. Now you wake up and 15 updates have been applied to your phone and a new feature has been installed to your desktop. Now the question isn’t the updates, the size of the updates or the frequency – it’s how to prepare your users and your

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

July 6, 2020

Greg Thomas

What’s In a Preview?

A new feature. A fix to an old bug. An idea for something new that you want to see whether there is some love from the market to keep it going? A direction you never thought of. A new platform of support. What should never be in a preview? Making your application harder to use then it was before. Putting your users through 5 clicks to accomplish a task that used to be done in one. Having to call support to fix an issue that wasn’t included in the preview and now they are stuck with. Cloud platforms are updated

June 29, 2020

Greg Thomas

Deliver for a Company or Deliver for yourself

When delivering work for a company, you are a part of the cog, you are a piece of the delivery, you are a component of what someone is up at the front of the room with powerpoint in hand where they might call you out expand on a topic. When you are delivering for yourself, you are the engine, you are living the topic and you are calling yourself out each and every day. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).

June 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

Code to Draw

I track all of my blog ideas in Trello, mainly because I can use it from any device and if I have a thought on the spur of a moment, I can easily add a card and move forward with it. I’ve had this one topic of coding being akin to drawing for a long time. For the past 4 years I’ve been dabbling in learning to draw (or re-learning). I didn’t start from any great talent, so I’m pretty much starting from the bottom and working my way up. Over the past year I’ve been putting in more effort