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If this dog-umentation is right, can you spot all the problems in the generated arf-ifact? For years, I’ve advocated for keeping developer documentation in the same code repository as the code it describes. In the age of AI, that practice has become even more …
Continue readingWe used to call Callie "C". There’s a particular kind of writing that has become increasingly easy to produce: technically plausible, grammatically correct, reasonably well organized, and almost completely exhausting to read. You know the stuff–it has a lot …
Continue readingIn my last few posts, I’ve walked down memory lane, and talked about a ton of great successes I’ve had in my five years as blogger & speaker. It’s been fun to reminisce about how far I’ve come and brag about some success. Today’s post has a bit of a different …
Continue readingIn Year Three, I had a pretty big year. I kind of felt like I had peaked. I had received the Community Influencer of the Year Award and Microsoft MVP Award. Where do you go from there? Mostly, I just wanted to keep up what I was doing, and keep sharing what I …
Continue readingYear Two was a busy year, and I was taking blogging seriously. In Year Three, my goal was to keep focused on what I learned in the FreeCon the year before, and keep moving forward with both blogging and speaking at conferences and user groups. I was putting a …
Continue readingMy blog's Terrible Twos weren't so terribleIn Year 1, I only wrote 6 blog posts. In Year 2, I made a conscious decision to take things seriously, and kicked things into high gear. During this 12-month period, I wrote 36 blog posts--my best 12-months as far as …
Continue readingI wrote a little bit about starting my blog in my last post. But let’s take a closer look at that first 12 months. I’ve lost my blog stats for that first year, so I can’t say exactly how many visitors I had. I can say that the number of views was so low that …
Continue readingOn May 16, 2014, I bought a domain on a whim. I’d been sitting in the NOCC (Network Operations & Control Center) at my employer, helping with maintenance. I was waiting on another team to perform their task, and champing at the bit.
Continue readingIf a server falls in a data center and no users are around to notice, does it count as downtime? There's a lot of discussion about preventing downtime. As a DBA and IT professional, it's my sworn duty to prevent downtime. I usually describe my job as DBA …
Continue readingI’m a college drop-out. When I was trying to figure out my life, a friend (my brother’s ex) referred me to a software company where she was working–I got the job because I was (a) breathing, (b) eager to do the job, and (c) cheap. The application we built and …
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