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Reap What You Sow

When I first started programming, some thirty-five years ago, it was a somewhat quiet, if not shy, profession. It had already been around for a while, but wasn’t visible to the public. Most people had never even seen a serious computer, just the overly expensive toys sold at department stores.Back then, to get to an intermediate position took about 5 yrs. That would enable someo...


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Dirty Little Secret

At the beginning of this Century, an incredibly successful software executive turned to me and said, “The dirty little secret of the software industry is that none of this stuff works.”I was horrified. "Sure, some of that really ancient stuff didn’t work very well, but that is why we are going to replace it all with all of our flashy new technologies. Our new stuff will definite...


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This Week's Turbo Encabulator

Sometimes, the software industry tries to sell products that people don’t actually need and won’t solve any real problems. They are very profitable and need minimal support.The classic example is the set of products that falls loosely under the “data warehouse” category.The problem some people think they have is that if they did not collect data when they needed it, they don’t h...


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Against the Grain

When I was really young and first started coding, I hated relational databases.They didn’t teach us much about them in university, but they were entirely dominant in enterprise development for the 80s and 90s. If you needed persistence, only an RDBMS could be considered. Any other choice, like rolling it yourself, files, or lighter dbs, caches, was considered inappropriate. Peop...


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New Year

I was addicted from the moment I bought my first computer: a heavily used Apple ][+ clone. Computers hadn’t significantly altered our world yet, but I saw immense potential in that machine.None of us, back in those days, could have predicted how much these machines would damage our world. We only saw the good.And there has been lots of good; I can’t live without GPS in the car, ...


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