This time a couple of weeks ago the image on the left was me, doing something I’ve never done before… Yoga.  I’ve never seen this as anything I’d ever do but agreed to a Yoga holiday in Portugal with the family (There are no photos!).  Even though I was reasonably determined from day one that this would be something I would do on holiday and never again, I have to say I do feel better for it, and have even been caught activating my uddiyana bandha in the morning and enjoying a little meditation when I thought nobody was watching!  But now I’m back to work… so where’s the link?

Well, it’s all about flexibility and the importance of having this if you want to weather the demands of daily life.  In the weeks running up to my holiday my team, Andrea in particular, took on the challenge of updating the Number Verifier app with a couple of bug fixes and a few new bits of functionality asked for by various users.  This is a brilliant little application preferred by anyone who has problems with false positives and negatives when dealing with numbers for verification.  However, this task was not as easy as it should have been and every little change broke something else that worked before.  The original app wasn’t developed by our team so we inherited the code, and this can be quite tricky when you have to change it as unexpected things can often happen.  This app in particular has an expansive array of options and the array of possibilities in terms of number formats is even greater.  So being able to be flexible with this app in particular is very important, so this is what my team (Andrea & Romulus) did… Yoga for apps!

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