The path you take is yours and yours alone. It’s not linear, it doesn’t follow what everyone else does, and it’s not based on how many years you work somewhere or go to school. It’s your path, filled with ups and downs and all around. In the moment, you’re not thrilled with your path, you might not enjoy the daily grind of it, and it might feel like all it does is hold you back.…
Feedback can come in intervals or as one big hose. The benefit of intervals is that you are able to give out the feedback in drips, watch for improvement, tweak, and give out some more. When it comes out as a firehose, the “giving” of the feedback benefits you because you get it out all at once and can move on. Feedback in intervals takes longer, goes slower, and requires you to hold back when…
The goal in your test cases is to validate a problem that has been solved. It starts with understanding the problem and reproducing it. If you don’t know the problem you can’t reproduce it. If you can’t reproduce it, you can’t validate the fix. One action drives another, impacts another, and makes another come to fruition. Without knowing the problem, you cannot reproduce it, without reproducing it you cannot test it. You need one to…
Every few months I get prompted to reconnect my profile on my blog to LinkedIn. It’s the only active connection I have, it never changes. But I only get alerted when I go to write a post and “gasp” Sometimes I schedule them based on when thoughts strike me. It doesn’t bother me much, I’ve had to delete it now and again when the profile got messed up. And I know I have become desensitized…
If you can’t do it through the app, there is probably an API that will you do it or a background process. And although this is great, this begs the question – why can’t you do it through the app itself? Why is it restricted? What was the reasoning? And if you’re now doing it through the API, why do you then need the app? What is it giving you? Give your App the same…