It's impossible to step into the same river twice; other waters are flowing toward the sea. It's impossible to do "head-to-head" project comparisons. You can't have the same people doing the same thing with only one constraint changed. You can try to resort to having similar people doing the exact …
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After spending a couple of years (really) working with a publisher, the deal has gone south.
The problem was—likely—all mine. The book wasn't really what the publisher wanted. Perhaps it was close and they thought they could edit it into shape. And perhaps I wasn't responsive enough to …
more ...I suddenly realized that QR Codes are everywhere. Except my business cards. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/qrcode/2.0 That should allow me to solve that problem and move on.
Recently started looking into Metadata Registries and UDEF and related semantic technology.
The Wikipedia page lists a bunch of relevant Metadata Registry projects and commercial products. Very nice. Easy to follow the links and determine features and benefits.
However.
A client has IBM Cognos. Is there any easy to to …
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http://www.petapixel.com/2011/12/27/what-5mb-of-storage-looked-like-in-1956/
When I was in college (1974-1978) 64K of RAM was the size of a refrigerator.
By 1982, 64K of RAM was an Apple ][+ fully tricked out with the 16K expansion card.
I vaguely remember working …
Okay. This is seriously cool.
The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) provides a controlled vocabulary that should be used to seed a project's data model.
See http://www.opengroup.org//udef/
We're looking at applying UDEF retroactively to an existing schema.
What a pain in …
more ...Just updated the Stingray Reader. There was an egregious error (and a missing test case). I fixed the error, but didn't add a test case to cover the problem. It's simple laziness. TDD is quite clear on how to tackle this kind of thing. Write the missing test case (which …
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