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June 1, 2020

Greg Thomas

Finding Features

There is a great app I use to find pictures of work I want to build or draw. I follow tons of people and admire their work. The problem, however, is that I can barely find them once I have followed them and trying to find their updates is the actual work in trying to find a needle in a haystack multiplied by the needle being at the bottom of the ocean. I have found different routes to get at this information, but it’s not always simple. If your products greatest feature is to find information and follow people, these

May 29, 2020

Greg Thomas

We Can Code Anything

I sometimes need to remind business users, product managers and analysts of this. Within the parameters of what you want, gives us the cadillac of your dreams, and we’ll figure out a way to get there. But if you give us the tractor, sure we can do it, but chances are it’s going to look like a tractor and not the cadillac you were hoping for and thought we’d be able to infer from your directions for a tractor. So much information is at a developer’s fingertips today, let us loose and we’ll show you what we can do. Want

May 28, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remotely Prepared Podcast

If you didn’t see it yesterday, there is a new podcast in town. In all reality, there are probably a number of them, but this one is new to me. The past few months have put an exceptional load on people and businesses as they shift their workforces to working remotely bringing up a number of new struggles and changes which they are having to implement while running their current operations. I’ve likened it to putting the car into reverse when you’re already going 100 km/hr and see how the car likes that. A colleague (Colin Harding) and I thought

May 27, 2020

Greg Thomas

The After Meeting Meeting

Of all the meetings I attend, this one hurts. It always crops up near the end of a meeting where you think you have knocked it out of the park and then someone says – can you stay on the call so we can talk on this further. I don’t mind the questions, I don’t mind the discussion. What I mind is that I didn’t do enough to make the meeting feel comfortable for them to ask these questions in front of anyone else. In the end they are never complex questions, just questions they didn’t want to ask in

May 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

Anyone Can Learn

The question is whether they want to. Whether you want to learn something is completely up to you and is the difference between someone else learning something new and you. People respect that you want to learn something new, that you are trying something new, that you are putting yourself out there to figure something out. Whether you get there is immaterial, it’s that you want to learn and that you are trying. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).