Coaching the Digital Transformation
One of the challenges for me when working with customers is getting them to think about how to change their software process. Often they want to solve their problems, but no one wants to alter the way...
View ArticleMetrics and Measures
Many organizations have been trying to find better ways to build and deploy software for their customers. Whether they deal with the general public or internal customers, we know that delivering...
View ArticleLiving With Broken Software
I travel quite a bit every year. Over 20 trips in 2022 and five trips in the first quarter of 2023. To make life easier, I have a few routines that I use to ensure that travel goes smoothly and I don’t...
View ArticleCreating Documentation
Who should create documentation for software? In many companies, it’s the developers. In fact, in Redgate, often our developers are tasked with updating articles for products on our documentation site....
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Experiments with GitHub CoPilot
There has been a lot of attention given to ChatGPT and AI over the last month or two. I’ve tried a few things with the public interface at Open.ai. Some worked well, like this one: Others not so well:...
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Setting up a Local http Server with Node
Setting up a local web server was something that I haven’t done in a long time and this was really easy. This post shows how to do this with a command line node web server. A Need Most software that...
View ArticleRunning a Service
Many of us work for some organization and we’re responsible for managing a database or coding some application or some other data related position. Perhaps we ensure reports work for our users or move...
View ArticleThe Code Review Checklist
Early in my career as a developer, I was required to follow a formal process to get the code I’d written deployed to production environments. Each time I’d written code, I had to document what I’d...
View ArticleDoes Management Care About the Database?
Many of the services that businesses use are taken for granted. In an office, management expects electricity, water, and heat just work. If they don’t, then often a crisis is declared and funds are...
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T-SQL Tuesday #170–Abandoned Projects
It’s the first T-SQL Tuesday of the new year. As we move forward, this month’s invitation is neat in that it’s looking back to learn how to move forward. I think while many people do look back, they...
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