2008 [92 posts]

By Date:

• January 03 Is This Software World’s Equivalent of The Perpetual Motion Machine?
• January 05 I Thought It Was Just Me
• January 12 Python as Config Language – Forget XML and INI files
• January 19 Two Python Config-File Design Patterns
• January 26 Configuration File Scalability – Who Knew? (Revised)
• January 28 Building Skills In Python - 2.5 Edition
• February 02 Open-Ended Date Ranges – The “From Here to Eternity” Problem
• February 05 Python’s Duck Typing Not General Enough; SQL’s Minimally Typed Foreign Keys Not General Enough.  Debugging Hilarity Ensues.
• February 09 Quantum Time: Dates, Times, DateTimes and Timestamps (3rd ed.)
• February 11 The Waterfall’s Not Working – Even A Client Said So
• February 14 Why Agile?  What’s the Point?
• February 15 Open Source and Corporate IT (again)
• February 23 More Programming for n00bz
• March 01 Physical Database Design Questions – Some Inner Mysteries
• March 08 Technical Debt, the Cost of Cheap and “Get This Done ACAP”
• March 11 Al Gore’s Internet?  Wait – What?
• March 12 Censorship - who wins?
• March 13 Consequences of Reverse Engineering
• March 19 iBlog Buggy... Since Leopard’s release... No fixes in sight.
• March 24 The Passive-Aggressive Programmer, part II
• March 24 The Django World-View: Model+Admin First; Built-in Transparency and Trustworthiness
• March 28 Python as Configuration Language – More Good Ideas
• March 31 Synchronicity and Document Object Models.
• April 01 POPO and GOPS - Plain Old Python Objects and Good Old Python Syntax
• April 02 Technology and New Business Models
• April 07 Airport Extreme + Time Machine.  Wow!
• April 08 Building Skills Updates
• April 09 Innovation includes Failure (some organizations call it “Learning”, however)
• April 13 XKCD summarizes Python nicely
• April 15 Abuses of Use Cases - a Failure Taxonomy
• April 16 Innovation Pushed to Vendors
• April 20 The Half-Truth About Consultants
• April 23 SOA New Realities
• April 27 Tackling the Spreadsheet Problem
• April 28 Three More False Dichotomies – Plus a Bonus Misdirection
• May 08 Standard Software Defects - Java Edition
• May 09 Python and the Star Schema
• May 12 Parallelism Fetishes. #1: Equal-Sized Partitions
• May 14 Keeping the Customer Satisfied
• May 24 Some “Duck Typing Can’t Scale” crap-ola
• May 27 Brain Dead and Visual Basic: Coincidence?
• May 30 My Peers Don’t Get PL/SQL, What Can I Do?
• May 31 Building Skills in OO Design – Updated
• June 03 In Praise of Serialization via __repr__ (Revised)
• June 06 Tech Visionaries
• June 06 My Query Is Slow – What To Do?  Or Dumb-As-A-Post SQL (Revised)
• June 07 Genius Move – Characteristic Functions
• June 14 Denormalization or “What did you mean by that?”
• June 19 Building Skills in OO Design
• June 25 Wrestling with REST
• June 29 The “Which Language” Question
• July 06 Voice of the Customer
• July 12 What’s Central Here?
• July 18 Technology and Compromise
• July 28 Small Not-For-Profit Web Presence – What to do?
• July 30 Getting to an Agile process
• July 31 Small Not-For-Profit, Part II
• August 03 Stored Procedures Are A Configuration Management Nightmare (revised)
• August 06 The Schema Evolution Problem
• August 13 Testing RESTful web services in Django – Tantalizingly Close.
• August 16 The Technology Obsession
• August 20 What is Perception?  What is Reality?  It seems to depend on your sponsors.
• August 22 Universal Truths
• August 22 Risk-Based Testing
• August 28 The Joy of Unit Testing
• August 30 Tooling to Build Test Cases
• September 02 The Big Plan For Change™ – Since it never works, what’s the alternative?
• September 02 Lean Projects — Not Deficient Projects
• September 04 The Lean Architecture
• September 06 Bind Variables and Prepared Statements – Good, Bad or Indifferent?
• September 09 I didn’t get the memo – apparently, I’m not on the distribution list – in fact, there may be no list
• September 14 Filesystem Deployment: Some Hand-Wringing
• September 23 Too much of the wrong kind of fun.
• September 24 “The Business Analyst Lied” Or “Python To The Rescue”
• September 28 How did I start with Python?
• September 28 Programming Languages I’ve Learned (more-or-less in order) [Update]
• October 05 Exploratory Programming – Incremental Development in Python (Revised)
• October 12 I hate CSS – mostly because I don’t understand it
• October 21 How can we demo web services?
• October 25 Classic / Ancient Bit of Marketing
• November 01 The Python “Connection Reset By Peer” Problem
• November 08 Python 3.0
• November 13 To GUI or not to GUI, that is a question
• November 17 Concealing the code base – in Python.  I think not.
• November 22 Schrodinger’s cat lives! Or doesn’t!
• November 24 Open Source In The News
• November 29 Rickrolling Trifecta
• December 02 Conflating Test and Debug
• December 09 Configuration Files – Again
• December 18 My Favorite Appliance
• December 22 Blogging and Technical Writing
• December 31 Building Documentation

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