Category: Graft
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AI vs. Trailhead
I fear for Salesforce Trailhead. Trailhead was my doorway into a new career. After 15 years of software testing the end was nigh. The writing was on the wall as soon as I worked on an ‘agile’ project, Software testing as a way to make a living was dead. Progress. Only a few short years…
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Software Development, Horizontal Slicing and Why It Sucks
Maybe I’m getting old. Maybe I’m even more cynical these days. Maybe I’m just reluctant to change. Take all the above into consideration as I make comment on a ‘new’ phenomenon in my daily working life. Welcome to horizontal slice software development. Firstly lets take a step back. Way back. For many years the way to…
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When To Use Jira (A Practical Guide)
A product manager recently requested that we start using an electronic card wall because they couldn’t find a card. The question certainly got me thinking. What happens to your team and delivery process when you use something like Jira, or Leankit or the like? Here is an attempt to answer. The answer I give is…
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Outlook
I’m not a manager and hence I don’t really do meetings. I’ve never been a manager and I’ve never really done meetings. So when there is a meeting planned and I have eight desktops, 30 applications and 54 windows/tabs open is not really surprising that I miss it. So what I need is an email/SMS…
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Employment
I’ve heard many good stories about REA and know that they have adapted their software development significantly over the past five or so years. Having come from a background of larger corporates and a small startup it will be most interesting to see how the team works and also to once again work with other…
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I Quit Yesterday
Its not the first time I’ve quit and it won’t be the last. Its the very nature of working in the technology sphere that things change and people flow between jobs on a fairly regular basis, but this doesn’t stop me wondering that usual post quit question… ‘Have I done the right thing?’ Looking at…
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Logs
developer: If we switch on logging then the application will crash.
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Infamous
This is me. In a TV advert. Channel One and Ten. Nationally in Australia.