Tag: Computer Programming
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Thanks are not enough, Steve
It’s not news that one of the founders of Apple Computers and the visionary behind a plethora of Apple (and other) products died yesterday. Even people who don’t usually tune in real news tuned into the news of Steve Jobs’ passing. There’s a good chance when they got the news, it appeared first on their…
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AJAX is not just a scouring powder
(Note to readers: I leave on vacation tomorrow, so I will be posting sporadically next week if at all. I expect to be internet inaccessible for a few days. My family will be in Phoenix and Las Vegas.) It used to be that Ajax was a scouring powder. Actually, it still is, but to us…
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My Movable Type Recent Visitors Application
I have never been enthusiastic about using SiteMeter to monitor my blog. It provides some real time statistics, but not very accurate ones. I will keep metering with it nonetheless because it is free and monitoring my blog is one of my favorite ways to waste time. Every hit to this blog is recorded in…
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The Coding Vacation
I must be a nerd. I am spending a significant part of my two weeks off programming. While theoretically I can program at work, as a manager I usually do not have the leisure. Therefore, I do it on my vacation as something of a hobby. The rest of the year, I cannot seem to…
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Intrigued by ActiveGrid
As frequent readers know, I was on the west coast this week. I was in Cupertino, California (in Silicon Valley) to attend a MySQL Customer Advisory Board meeting. MySQL is an open source and very fast database, used mostly on the web. Perhaps because we happened to have our representative pay a call a few…
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Slip Sliding into the Past
For nine years, I worked in the bowels of the Pentagon. Okay, maybe “bowels” is not the right word. I rarely went into the basement, that deep, dark and mysterious place. In the Pentagon basement, rats were not too difficult to find and all sense of direction was lost. It was a dark and horrid…
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The Transformation of the Information System
Like many of us in the information technology field, my career has been about creating and maintaining information systems. The techniques and technologies used have varied. Until now the process has stayed essentially the same thing. The process is something like this. Get people to put data into a computer. Store it somewhere. Apply business…
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The joy of coding
I’m a software engineer and a project manager so I don’t do much in the way of coding software anymore. In truth most code writing and testing isn’t that much fun. I was kind of glad to be lead out of the programming hole I was stuck in some ten years back. I realized I…
Occam's Razor 