April 29, 2006
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Book Review
Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, and Dion Almaer bring us a valuable and enjoyable book describing Ajax. It is full of running examples, points out the major gotchas, and it’s a good read too! Recommended!
April 22, 2006
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Articles
Between the new book review page and a few other things, I just spent a few days in a painful, test-free update of my web site scripts. Here, a report on how much it hurt. Lessons learned? We’ll have to see what I do. Like lots of folks I know, I haven’t figured out how to do what I know I should.
April 17, 2006
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Book Review
Scott and Pramod have done an excellent job with this book. It’s full of practical advice about how to improve your database design, when to do it, and even how to manage the transitions. If your project involves a database, this book can help.
April 14, 2006
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Articles
More features will always bring more revenue, more customer satisfaction, other good things. Therefore there is always pressure for people to work harder, longer hours. This is demonstrably a Bad Idea. Here’s some evidence, and some ideas about how to know if pressure is too high.
An associate sent me a note pointing out that a domain, southwesthosting.net belonging to Phillip Robinson included a large amount of my copyrighted material.
I sent him a polite note asking him to remove it, followed by an official…
Uncle Bob Martin comments on “Developer Certification WTF?” in a recent blog entry. Let’s talk a bit about developer quality, and some things that are being done about it.
Choose your tools wisely, that they allow for the development of your skill.
Jim Shore has written a short item with the above title. Let’s think about it a bit.
Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.