Dysfunctions of a corporation
Deploying a sufficiently complicated application into a corporate environment involves navigating a sea of paperwork, getting all the appropriate “approvals” in place, co-ordinating with department managers to get time slots from their staff, and so on.
Closing tasks
I read a great quote in I’m feeling lucky. It described a note sent from one Google employee to another as he handed over a piece of software. Here’s what I’ve done. Here’s how it’s running. Here are some things to look at. Here’s what’s going to go wrong if it goes wrong. Here are [...]
Back in the gym
This morning I did my first weights workout since my Grade 3 AC joint separation 5 weeks ago. I didn’t push it hard, the point was to start building some strength slowly while trying to avoid further injury. Most of the weights were around my previous warmup levels. i.e. around 60%. I was focusing on [...]
AC Joint Rehabilitation
One month after suffering a grade 3 AC joint separation I am definitely on the road to recovery, but still a long way short of back to “normal”. I’ve been doing my resistance-band exercises plus the Plank exercise each day for a few weeks now and the strength is slowly returning. I haven’t gone back [...]
Continuous deployment
Automation isn’t about quality, it’s about scale. Manual processes don’t scale. Each part of your process that you automate gets you one step closer to continuous deployment. For many teams, automation is a Quadrant 4 activity – not urgent, not important – but on my teams it is a Quadrant 2 activity – important but [...]