I just got home. These Saturdays at the shop are often very productive. I had the Jr. Dev and Jr. Intern with me. They work together very well. The Security Guard comes with us. He not only handles all the arrangements with building security, but he also provides transportation for the Jr. Dev and me. We dropped off the Jr. Intern at Union Station to catch his BX bus to Boulder. We had a list of about ten things to do, most of which were also opportunities for training. SQL tune-ups and load balancing in our server farm took up about half our time today. We installed a new Exchange server. [yuk!] We completed our monthly checklists. We made some adjustments to our Arista switches. Our packet loss is extremely low, approaching zero. Our subtle changes in the order of logic in our Microsoft source code give us a big advantage. I teach certain tricks of the trade to all our new developers and interns. The Jr. Dev keeps a detailed record of them. Our boss is very oriented toward growth of our SharePoint Community. Every few weeks, he and other executives change strategies on how to attract new members. It often involves changes to server software which are impractical to do during a busy weekday. We want to be at the top of various lists of available data centers, for emergency web hosting, but we dont want just any customers... Our business intelligence tools can identify some of the most lucrative opportunities. But money is not the only factor in the algorithm. We want members who benefit the community. If a potential new customer fits the profile, they get free service all weekend and an invitation to join our SharePoint Community. In certain cases, our boss is notified so he can personally contact them, even on weekends. Our boss is a very intuitive businessman. On one occasion, he got his boss to contact a potential new member at home also. This impressed them so much, they joined our SharePoint Community practically on the spot. Our competitors who schedule.appointments for them in the middle of the next week get the rug pulled out from under them. In this business, if you snooze, you lose. It may seem to some readers that I do not cooperate enough with the business needs of members, particularly bankers in our intranet. But many of them are not aware of the larger picture involving our new growth opportunities. Business that is directed their way does not come out of thin air. It often comes from new extranet members who get targeted advertising. It is very exciting and rewarding to be able to make the technical adjustments that can put my employer ahead in the race for new markets. Sometimes just one little comma in a line of code can make an enormous difference. The devil is in the details.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 23:13:32 +0000
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