6 years ago a guy looked at me face to face, and boldly told me; "I don't like you!" I immediately fired a response, I asked him that day; "Thank you for the honest feedback, but those that you like, how has it made their life better? How does your liking people pay their bills or take a bank loan? My brother keep your like, I need God's like And that's what guarantees my future. Today I joined a CEO friend of mine in an interview Panel to recruit some new staff, it was a long session, as we returned from a coffee break to continue the hectic interview session, here was this same guy walked in with his grey jacket and CV coming for the interview. Our eyes kissed by fluke, we immediately recognised each other; "the world is indeed spherical", I soliloquized. He felt very uncomfortable through out the interview, one could clearly see the volcanic eruption ongoing in his whole nervous system, he even mistook his date of birth for his last date of empl
I find myself here a little more than several times ... When stuff just doesn't work. The saviour part is when all is working in the test environment. It all then fails when the client steps in and asks for the final packaged product...Whatever the hell happens during packaging in what has the potential to keep you awake through the night. May be the deployment environment has different settings, may be version issues, may be rights and /or permissions....just anything. May be you forgot to copy some files..anything here is of importance taking note of. I used to be a victim till I decided to be replicating close to if not what the client has. In development, I try as much as possible to use the technology supporting the final product. If its unix based, develop in unix based systems, if windows, same. Just be close to the final environment, if you can't be there.