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📅 June 30, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Testing Your Backups – Disaster Recovery Requires Verification

There are a few times I have been taught the value of testing your backups. That is why even disaster recovery needs to be validated. The first story I share is probably a worst-case…

📅 June 28, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 3 minutes read

Sweeping Consequences – Avoid All In Until You Are Sure

There is an old joke about sweeping consequences in IT related to wildcard commands like “rm -rf *.” However, there are ways to avoid getting bit by them. For example, we can do test…

📅 June 23, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

A Car Sale – Acceptable Loss And Walking Away

We continue the series about errors and recovering with an excellent example of acceptable loss and when to walk away. We see these appear in negotiations regularly. They are shown in movies, television shows,…

📅 June 22, 2022 Testing ⏱ 2 minutes read

WebDriver IO: Building Automation Scripts in JS

In this presentation, we are going to be talking about using the WebDriver IO: Building Automation Scripts using Javascript. Now, this is not really going to be a slide-driven presentation. Instead, we are going…

📅 June 21, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Key Performance Indicators – Measure Your Spending

This episode looks at a marketing campaign and my lack of paying based on key performance indicators or KPIs. This was a slightly costly mistake and, thus, one that sticks in my memory. The…

📅 June 16, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 3 minutes read

Ask Questions To Show Knowledge – A Bad Interview

In this episode, our trip down memory lane stops at my first professional interview and when I learned to ask questions. It is thought by many that those that know never ask. However, that…

📅 June 15, 2022 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

Creating Content Channels – Podcast, Blog, Book, Youtube, etc.

The past few years have included us creating content channels across a number of outlets. That has led to a request to provide a presentation on how to go about such tasks. The goal…

📅 June 15, 2022 Support ⏱ 2 minutes read

Technical Support – Fire Fighting Issues

Welcome, today we are going to be talking about one of the most talked-about, but overlooked discussions about software and that is technical support. What do we do when software has a problem? In…

📅 June 14, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

Acceptable Risk – A Bike Trick Gone Bad

We look at another childhood error and its somewhat humorous result as an example of how to plan for acceptable risk. We often think of that as something where you are willing to pay…

📅 June 9, 2022 Grow From Failures ⏱ 2 minutes read

A Painful Step – Situational Awareness

A lack of situational awareness is just one of many youthful mistakes we make. Yet, it is the root of tons of lessons. We see it as children shining they are immortal in some…