Articles for category: Drive

3 days ago

Greg Thomas

Research, Analysis and Dissemination

Want to look good at working on a problem? Research – Identify the issue, what are the different “things” that could be causing the problem, dig deep into what they are, don’t scratch the surface. Analysis – Look at your research, what applies, what doesn’t, what is feasible, what isn’t, what could work, and what can’t.  Come up with a solution that fixes the problem and explains why. Desseminate – Complex solutions don’t always have simple answers. Being able to disseminate to an end user, another team member, or your manager is a skill beyond value when you can translate

4 days ago

Greg Thomas

The Importance of Design

Design without code is not a great design; it’s airy, never been proven, just there, who knows what it could mean. Design is important, whether you do it with AI or on your own; there is value in that work, and it is largely unhidden. If it fails, everyone knows it was a bad design. If it works, no one ever mentions it again. Some of the best code I ever wrote was a simple design to send out invoices every day to customers to get our money.  It ran for years without ever needing someone to coddle it or

5 days ago

Greg Thomas

The Pace of Change is Collapsing

I can go onto LinkedIn, do a bunch of reading on where people are at, and then I can go learn how things work. Learning is the fun stuff; it’s where you get to open your mind to all the possibilities around you. And then you can go back to LinkedIn and realize you are behind (or think you are). Every day, people are doing something different with what they have learned, and the gaps between what they learn and implement are shifting dramatically. With that, we lose something, though, the time to ponder, to think, to consider, to absorb,

7 days ago

Greg Thomas

Knowing your Code Context

There has never been a more important time to know what your code does and how it works. It’s no longer about knowing more than the other person who sits beside you.  That competition is over; there are systems out there that will run circles around you. It’s about knowing the context of what your code does, what it talks to, what it interfaces with, and why it retrieves data in a certain way. Everyone is going to AI for answers, and the best piece of information that you can add that AI cannot is the context to your code.

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

Chocolate Milk and Coffee do not Mix

We ran out of milk, but had some chocolate milk. I thought, why not try it in my coffee, since I need something to go in my coffee?  I tried adding it to my tea the day before, and it did not work. Fun fact, it does not hit well in coffee either – which I guess is why it has never taken off. But now I tried, and now I know. Don’t stop experimenting… I might not have liked this… but maybe you will.

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