05 May 2022
I can't say how many times I've talked to new speakers who watch speakers and are amazed at how effortless their flawless presentations seem to go. Folks, part of the reason they go that smoothly is because they're practiced, but part of it is also that the speaker is often ready for the mistake to happen.
29 April 2022
tl;dr: Solidify, a Sweden-headquarted consulting company, is creating a US division, and they've asked me to build it out. Hence, I am announcing the foundation of Solidify/US, a software development consulting company with deep expertise in DevOps (AzureDevOps and GitHub) and a focus on helping companies maximize their software development efforts.
26 February 2022
tl;dr: Allen Holub is a smart, experienced developer whose seen a lot of things in his time. But his take on the bug tracker--that it "is a symptom of a deeper problem--insufficient focus on quality" misses the mark badly on a number of fronts, even as he is slightly right about it.
23 February 2022
A while back, Packt Publishing asked me to do a review of the book "Supercharge Your Applications with GraalVM", and while I wrote it up, I never pushed it to the blog. tl;dr, it's a decent book--a good intro to GraalVM, with some interesting tidbits in there, but not deep enough for the expert. (Full disclosure: Packt sent me a copy of the book in exchange for a review.)
22 February 2022
As I've mentioned on LinkedIn, I've been sans FTE employment since just before the holidays last year, and I'm using the time to do some re-shuffling of some of my "digital footprint" on the Internet. Let me explain a bit about what's going on here, mostly so that if you're consuming an RSS feed for one, and you're not getting what you expect, you may want to flip over to the other. (Or both!)
23 January 2022
It's that time of the year again, when I make predictions for the upcoming year. As has become my tradition now for nigh-on a decade, I will first go back over last years' predictions, to see how well I called it (and keep me honest), then wax prophetic on what I think the new year has to offer us.
25 February 2021
It's that time of the year again, when I make predictions for the upcoming year. As has become my tradition now for nigh-on a decade, I will first go back over last years' predictions, to see how well I called it (and keep me honest), then wax prophetic on what I think the new year has to offer us.
16 January 2020
It's that time of the year again, when I make predictions for the upcoming year. As has become my tradition now for nigh-on a decade, I will first go back over last years' predictions, to see how well I called it (and keep me honest), then wax prophetic on what I think the new year has to offer us.
01 January 2019
It's that time of year again... well, actually, a few days late, but I've been busy, I swear. As has become my tradition now for nigh-on a decade, I will first go back over last years’ predictions, to see how well I called it (and keep me honest), then wax prophetic on what I think the new year has to offer us.
As per previous years, I’m giving myself either a +1 or a -1 based on a purely subjective and highly-biased evaluational criteria as to whether it actually happened (or in some cases at least started to happen before 31 Dec 2018 ended). And, to be fair, while I only posted the 2018 predictions a few days ago (I hadn't realized it, but my CI system for the blog was down, which goes to show you, it helps to verify your CI system every so often), I actually wrote it a year ago, so it's still legit.
02 January 2018
It's that time of year again... well, actually, a few days late, but I've been busy, I swear. As has become my tradition now for nigh-on a decade, I will first go back over last years’ predictions, to see how well I called it (and keep me honest), then wax prophetic on what I think the new year has to offer us.
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