No post from me on Thursday (ascension day) and Friday (gap day) for me as I will be enjoying the city of Berlin for a few days!
Read you on Monday!
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Just recently I was faced with the problem that one of our services did not deliver at all. The data somehow got missing on the way so I had to check every point on the way the data is flowing to find out where it failed.
It would’ve been quicker if the only error message I received would have been correct.
In the past few days I had my eyes on some of our mobile projects that we currently run. Like in so many web projects before I detected a lot of common factors and unfortunately a lot of common missing informations.
So I decided to create a checklist.
In my company there are four development teams each with different clients and there is a an architectural team to support them. For the last few month this architectural team is developing a real website that will become the prototype for all websites.
To me development seems less attractive now.
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80% is common only 20% is specific or is it?
No comments · Posted by Christian in Outside the box
If you develop multiple websites a common theory says that 80% of all of them is common while only 20% is specific. So why make the 80% reusable and focus on the 20% per website?
Because the 20% is not stable.
Sometimes a situation can seem like there is no way out and no way back. Especially in IT you can see legacy systems in a state where the only solution you can think of is doing it again.
It’s like a game of pick-a-stick.
When you change something that other stuff depends on you might have to deal with this stuff being broken. Only sometimes it’s hard to understand why things break when there was no good reason for it.
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Quick and dirty can be such a relief!
No comments · Posted by Christian in Miscellaneous, The real job
We have a large website and a quite big team of developers working almost entirely on it. We’ve got legacy code but good people. We’ve got load tests and mostly stable deployment processes. We’ve got syndication feeds that many mobile applications depend on.
And changes take ages..
A few days ago I finally received my SolidRun Cubox. I guess within the next weeks I will write the odd post about my experience with it. So this is likely to be the start of a new series.
Lets start with my setup and plans.
Just read two interesting articles that I’d like to share. The first is from Eric Jackson on Forbes.com about Google and Facebook might be disappearing within the next 5 years. The second is Ian Luries reply on Allthingsd.com arguing that Google is here to stay.
We have seen big names disappear over the last decades. Netscape and AOL to name a few. So why should Google e save from that?
