Welcome to the new home of the Shetland Wolf, the on-line presence of Peter Wiles (me). Having never touched WordPress themes, I have knocked this one up over the weekend so it is still a work in progress as I tweak and edit the theme but I am quite pleased so far with the results. [...]
Challenge accepted
Posted by PeteI am sure 99% of people who want to start a blog don’t actually do much after the first few posts. I’m a good example. Sporadic posts about not much. Its like a long twitter post which is a bit crap. (the post not twitter) So. On this day. I challenge me to a test. [...]
Schools. They do my sweede
Posted by PeteToday is one of those days when you could put your hand down the phone and strangle the tech at the other side. Luckily it was a third party tech and not a school IT manager this time but the same stands. After 3 hours of my time and two of the network team trying [...]
A day with WP8
Posted by PeteDo you remember that first date you went on all them years ago? they were hot, had curves in all the right places and it was almost love at first sight? But as the date went on you found annoying little habits that you hoped were nerves or over time you would learn to live [...]
SCRUM away
Posted by PeteWith Service Now being in 6 weeks now, I’ve actually managed to make time to do development work. I wasn’t sure how to at first but with some delegation to my teams, its sort of worked out. I don’t actually give myself quality time but I get stuff done. With that though, I have been [...]
Lumia 920
Posted by PeteMy phone contract ended last December (weirdly on my birthday) and since I got the iPhone, I have skipped a generation, waiting for the next one. So with high hopes, I didn’t upgrade and waited, like the rest of the world, for the iphone5. How disappointed was I. I live on the Microsoft side of [...]
First week of Service Now is….. Done
Posted by PeteThat’s it. First week is done and I’m not sure all the fuss is about in big projects. I know there is still loads todo and my “quirk” list is about a page long hit. all in all, everything went according to plan. The desk was also really busy with higher than normal incidents, the [...]
Service Now is a GO for launch
Posted by PeteIt’s go-live day for Service-Now today. Been awake since 2am this morning. Not worrying about it but mentally programming and documenting it. I tried taking my mind off it by Googling the iPhone 5, Galaxy 3S and Lumina 920 for an hour but that didn’t help. So here I am, 4hrs sleep, launching the biggest [...]
Service Now in the morning
Posted by PeteGetting a paw to the face at 7:15 in the morning, on your only day you have to lay in, is never good. Now couple that with starting to think how to integrate Service Now with SalesForce.com as you wake up, and you have this mornings “worst lay in ever”. Well maybe not ever but [...]
Humbug
Posted by PeteGot woken by cats fighting last night then instead of getting back to sleep, decided to think about work and how I wish the team would just get on with work instead of having to be told every 15 minutes to do work. (rant over) So in the spirit of trying to get back to [...]
First try with Jelly
Posted by PeteHad my first go with Jelly yesterday. Its a programming language to turn XML into executable code. It’s interesting stuff. Different syntax from the other stuff I’ve used but defiantly cool to learn. So I’m adding it to my never ending list of things to learn but in my view, once you have your coding [...]
