Category Archives: Work
Red Means Go
Earlier in the week I was on my way home from work, driving through the tale end of peak hour traffic when I very nearly smashed into the back of the car in front of me. The traffic was moving … Continue reading
Contractors
Promise the world tomorrow, cut scope and deliver nothing late.
Time Is Of The Essense
We’ve been working on our current software project for about a year and it has been one hell of a ride. With less than a week to go before we flick the switch, we’re going through our final stages of … Continue reading
Are Daily Backups Really Sufficent?
Monday afternoon we had a critical failure of an Oracle database at work. Within a few minutes of the fault taking place, I started seeing block corruption errors whilst I was reviewing some information in the production environment. At this … Continue reading
Learning How To Scale An ASP.NET Application
For the last nine months, the development team at Stella Hospitality Group have been working on integrating a new piece of software into the enterprise. Throughout that process, we’ve come up against various stumbling blocks and subsequently learned how to … Continue reading