Hello and welcome to the instructional website and blog of I, Sir Lawrence Peters, CSE, ABC, never having been to Washington DC, who is a software engineer. If you have not guessed Sir Lawrence Peters is not my real name, but almost an alter ego, one where I can pretend that everything is all right, and trust me, it is not. I am also changing peoples names and company names while jazzing my stories a little to protect the guilty and innocent. That was all lies (apart from the fact that my name is not Lawrence Peters). I should give you, the valued reader of this website, the following disclaimer which I borrowed from a Wikipedia article and changed TV show to website.
The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. No person or entity associated with this film received payment or anything of value, or entered into any agreement, in connection with the depiction of tobacco products and no animals were harmed in the making of this website..
So what am I going to tell you about? Well I intend to impart my knowledge of
- Design the good, the bad and the ugly
- Coding (or what I’ve learnt by coding badly)
- Testing (why a 460 page acceptance test specification is a bad idea, unless you are a contractor on loads of the wonga)
Finally, I will give you my views on management. And although I have experienced bad management or just a very stupid but ambitious human being masquerading, I realise that good management can make different. Indeed bad management can make a difference too. While good management can make save a project, bad management can doom a project to failure even though as an observer you may think it was easier to succeed. Indeed bad management is worse it can affect personal lives by effecting breakups through stress and even in the extreme. destroy lives. Right rant over. Stop that it’s silly as John Cleese would say.
Well, I would like to leave you with a quote I truly believe in yet cannot seem to put into practice. However, if you are young, you may benefit from these words of wisdom. Right, are you paying attention? Here goes.
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls…are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
― James Patterson, Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas