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Poking around in MySql

Posted by dustin in Uncategorized on February 17, 2012

One of the tools that I have come to love is RedGate’s SQL Search. If you’re not using an ORM, or if you need to get down into SQL Server and find columns, procedures or otherwise, it becomes indispensable to quickly get a handle on a largish database.

In my latest project, we made the decision to

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Well REST-ed

Posted by dustin in Uncategorized on September 24, 2011

So Matt and I were talking about routing, REST and resources yesterday. At StirTrek this spring Mike Amundsen gave a talk entitled: Programming the Cloud with HTTP/REST. Three of the things I took away from there were:

Reconsider the links were propagating. What has to do with the resource one is requesting? What is metadata pertinent to the request? Route accordingly. People have

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Under-Engineering is a Beautiful Start to Any Project

Posted by dustin in Software, Uncategorized on September 22, 2011

If you think about a lot of things in life, they’re over-engineered to the point of no return, aren’t they? Cars are a good example of going well past the realm of must-have. Have you ever lifted the hood on a 1974 BMW 2002? I did, and that squashed any thoughts I had of buying

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Perception debt and when doing right is no longer possible

Posted by dustin in Uncategorized on September 18, 2011

A few days ago, I tweeted that I really didn’t care to hear to much more about Windows 8 and the things coming out of the Build conference.

I lied and I’m sorry.

I couldn’t resist downloading and installing the full Win 8 package. I had it running in VirtualBox in about 35 minutes. I

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On Tools

Posted by dustin in Uncategorized on September 15, 2011

In any online discussion of photography, you’ll hear over and over that the camera, the primary tool of a photographer, has very little to do with creating great photographs. Those who shoot well need only a camera phone to create great work. It doesn’t matter what you buy, as there isn’t a camera that supplements

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What is a Coach?

Posted by dustin in Uncategorized on March 9, 2011

If I had a table of people, I could set a boolean column IsCoach to say whether or not a person is a coach.

I could also just calculate IsCoach based on the data x, y and z.

I think coaching is the latter. When we evaluate what you have done, we know whether or

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Quotes I Can Relate To

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on May 22, 2010

“Don’t do stuff unless customers want it” Mary Poppendieck “You are your process” “Great Software Is Not Built, It Is Grown” “Once you settle for second, that’s exactly what you get.” “‘Hell yes!’ or ‘no’.” “All truth passes through three stages. 1st, it is ridiculed. 2nd, it is violently opposed. 3rd, it is accepted as

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