Pitfalls - Code Aperture

7 Lessons from being a lead developer

By no means am I the best Lead Application Developer. But I have had the job for since 2014 and I haven't been fired yet. So I must be doing something right. Lead Application Developer is one of those jobs I really had to grow into. Scratch that, I am

Learning

Staying up to date on technology while working on a large project

I really enjoy the start of a project. That is when we get to decide on what technology we are going to use. When I became a Lead Application Developer back in early 2014 I went to a team who was about to start up a new project. It was

Automation

How to bring down a Production SQL Server with one line of code

Small releases shouldn't cause major outages. It certainly shouldn't take down a production database server. In the end it was one line of code. That exposed several flaws and brought down the database server. Wednesday night my team and I deployed a release to production. The release consisted of both