On Technical Leadership: Things Get Easier
IntroductionA long time ago in a place not so far away from Farmville, I learned Motorola 6800 machine code. It wasn't easy but with patient instruction from my neighbor, I was soon making things...
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Introduction I read Phil Factor 's Database Weekly editorial entitled Basically Available, Soft State, Eventually Consistent . I agree with Phil's conclusions about special-purpose databases that...
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Introduction I wrote recently on the importance of elegance in database design ( Art vs. Science ). In that post I wrote "Elegance is a solution crafted to meet the need(s)." I'd like to elaborate on...
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Introduction When I was a young man (yes that's been a while now) I suffered from Y.E.D. (Young Engineer's Disease). Here are some of the symptoms. Sunny-Day Design The design assumes the user thinks...
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