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Why Your Try-Catch Block Could Ruin your 3AM—And How to Prevent It!
Subtitle: “Consider adding debug logging statements to your coding practices.” As a developer, let me rant for a minute about exceptions and your peace of mind. Specifically, the incredibly vital, yet often overlooked, need for appropriate logging within a try-catch block—especially when you’re handling “normal” behavior like a missing file. A quick aside, don’t use…
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The value of Agile
The value of Agile is spotlighting whatever is currently slowing throughput. Agile usually highlights sloppy requirements and mismatched senior bonus structures. If you as CEO are not ready to spend the time or money to solve your leadership problems, DO NOT adopt any new agile processes.
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Passing Calculus
If you are like me, you have failed calculus at least once. About 35 years ago, I failed calculus. Twice. One of the goals of this site is to document my journey, (more than 40 years after leaving high school) through my Computer Science degree. To get that degree, I’m going to have to pass…
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Get started in our journey
What do you mean “our” journey? I’ll get there. This site is almost pure hobby. It’s a place to discuss my 40 years of experience, with people who either already are in the community, or want to be in the community. Maybe I’ll connect with some fellow cold-war Cherry Point jar-heads. Notice I said, “This…
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2021-08-29 – Day 39 – Launch Ugly – 3 Days to Launch
Status and Activity Learning WordPress and WP Themes If you’re looking at this blog prior to launch (i.e. my “Today”) it looks pretty ugly. I’m using the WordPress Twenty-Twenty-One theme, which is described as “clean.” It’s also the the theme being used in the course that I’m taking. The reason that’s important is because with…
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2021-08-28 – Day 38 – Launch Ugly – 4 Days to Launch
Status and Activity 3 Things to do today 2 hours of A+ study Actually got just over 30 minutes in. Move forward with my blog Write at least one post that I’m happy with Not done, but useful learning. Andrew’s course – How much can I get done? (2:34:00 Total) Section 5 (1:02:00 Length) –…
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2021-08-27 – Day 37 – Launch Ugly – 5 Days to Launch
Activity and Status This week has been a collection of highs and lows. I spent Wednesday and Thursday nights watching 3 episodes of the Blacklist (Season 1). The Blacklist is a fun little show set in a parallel universe that is just over the top, full of massive quantities of plot armor, and secret agent…
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2021-08-23 – Day 33 – Launch Ugly – 9 Days to Launch
Activity and Status This evening I notice that my day number and days to launch have gotten badly out of synch. So I created a spreadsheet for date, days til and day of, and then update all of my BTS page titles to have the same format. Learn that I had lost 10 days in…
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2021-08-22 – Day 32 – Launch Ugly – 10 Days to Launch
Thoughts I kind of want to hide my “Behind the Scenes” posts. Like make it a patreon perk. I would need to be a bit more diligent about making the behind the scenes posts happen on a regular basis. Activity and Status update Yesterday was about getting the blog launched. I was successful. Almost 2…
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2021-08-21 – Day 31 – RIBBON CUTTING COMPLETE – 11 Days till Launch
4 solid hours on the blog, mostly ripping stuff out. I think the site is looking good. Still lots to do, but I’d be comfortable launching the way it is. There is no news letter yet, and that’s a big missing. I also don’t have any real DevOps related content, so, more stuff to do.…