I have years of professional experience with and completed several academic courses about relational databases. This is a pretty familiar topic for me, and I’ve worked with a bunch of them: SQL Server, SQLLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and even MS Access. I’ve always found them, paradoxically, to be both comfortable and awkward. They’re comfortable because…
I was in sort of a smart-ass mood the other day, and I found myself thinking of something incredibly random. Do you remember that show or special called “To Catch a Predator” in which Chris Hansen and a crew of people would set up sting operations for sickos that would try to meet up with…
I’m thinking this is going to wind up being a shorter post, and so might some others going forward. Fact of the matter is that I’m burning the candle at both ends a bit lately. I’m under contract for my next Pluralsight course, and I’m also mired in the bureaucratic morass of marching toward a…
I was in a hotel the other night, and I had forgotten my Kindle at home, so I laid in bed for some time, catching up on my RSS feeds. I came across this post by John Sonmez, which I read with interest all the way through before I clicked over to read the post…
A Tale of Debugging The other day, someone came to me and told me that a component of one of the web applications that my team maintains seemed to have a problem. I sat with her, and she showed me what was going on. Sure enough, I saw the issue too. It was the kind…
