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• AI Acceptance Tests 23 Sep 2024

• Creating Permanent Documentation 15 Sep 2024

• Utilizing SQL 05 Oct 2023

• Mocking and Unit Tests 12 Mar 2023

• ChatGPT - do not fall for the hype 07 Feb 2023

• Python Requests library and SSL 14 Jan 2023

• Affordances in programming languages 11 Aug 2022

• Automating System Tests 04 Jun 2022

• Architecture at the wrong scale 06 Apr 2022

• Test code is not Production code 06 Mar 2022

• Read Evaluate Print Loop - REPL for the win 06 Feb 2022

• A neat Playwright Codegen feature 03 Feb 2022

• When does Herd Intelligence kick in? 24 Jan 2022

• Introducing pikchr for Diagrams as Code 04 Dec 2021

• A sample pikchr 04 Dec 2021

• Hurl as an alternative to Postman 05 Oct 2021

• Upgrading from Selenium to Playwright 16 Sep 2021

• Microservices, the Cloud and Us 24 Aug 2021

• Hyperloop Delusions 25 Jun 2021

• SWEBOK 3 is out 22 Apr 2021

• PlantUML has a good way of visualizing JSON 24 Jan 2021

• Is Serverless a return to the days of batch mainframe processing? 21 Dec 2020

• Another take on computer security 21 Dec 2020

• One take on the state of EdTech 28 Jun 2020

• As time passes, only COBOL lasts 05 Apr 2020

• How expensive is the cloud? 25 Feb 2020

• Affordances in version control systems 07 Nov 2019

• Are we getting better at estimating software projects? 27 Oct 2019

• Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto, UTC in database, localtime on web page 02 Oct 2019

• Elixir Ecto simple SQL Query 21 May 2019

• Setting up Elixir and Ecto with jamdb_oracle 20 May 2019

• Thank You for Erlang Joe 19 May 2019

• Rethinking Driverless Vehicles 10 May 2019

• Free and fair elections in the age of social media? 24 Apr 2019

• Time to revoke some corporate charters? 27 Mar 2019

• The end of Opportunity 13 Feb 2019

• Interesting talk on Concept Mapping 11 Feb 2019

• Biometrics are not the answer to weak authentication 24 Dec 2018

• Identity Theft, Impersonation or Weak Authentication? 23 Dec 2018

• Getting better at doing the wrong thing 13 Dec 2018

• The Web is no longer Open, DRM now part of W3C standards 18 Sep 2017

• Questions to ponder about sharing information on Facebook 04 Feb 2017

• PostgreSQL version of ERD Query for GraphViz 31 Oct 2016

• SqlServer version of Drawing ER Diagrams with GraphViz 18 Mar 2016

• Drawing ER Diagrams with GraphViz 19 Dec 2015

• Firefox is going to lose a lot of developers (and users) 25 Nov 2015

• Making a Game of Disaster Recovery Planning 16 Nov 2012

• A look at the future of software development 12 Nov 2012

• Transitions II 21 Oct 2012

• Dealing With Transitions 20 Oct 2012

• Rules For Reproducibility 11 Oct 2012

• Why isn't the source code as simple as the software? 09 Jan 2012

• Appropriate Complexity 27 Dec 2011

• Dealing With Aging Infrastructure 09 Jul 2011

• Some climate links 23 Jun 2011

• Strange error from RubyGems due to linux prelink ... 07 Apr 2011

• The Economist Gets It Wrong Again 01 Apr 2011

• When the Low Cost Supplier Stops Supplying 22 Feb 2011

• Mainstream media is catching up with outsourcing 16 Feb 2011

• Limits Of Expertise 15 Feb 2011

• Outsourcing Too Much Part II 08 Feb 2011

• Using Climate Change to study Software Development 04 Feb 2011

• Ruby on Rails Gotcha — cannot always omit parenthesis on a method call 03 Feb 2011

• Fun with Ruby on Rails 01 Feb 2011

• If you wait until it's obvious, it's too late 28 Jan 2011

• Rails Gotcha on Shared Hosting 18 Jan 2011

• Resizing Images for the Web 15 Jan 2011

• Setting up a Rails 3 development environment 13 Jan 2011

• Understanding Productivity 12 Jan 2011

• (In)Validating the 10X Productivity Difference Claim 11 Jan 2011

• The iPad does not appear to be a social medium 10 Jan 2011

• Best in class efficiency — because we didn't import the fuel efficient vehicles 07 Jan 2011

• Yes, you can outsource too much 05 Jan 2011

• jQuery for easier static site maintenance 05 Jan 2011

• Introductory Programming Texts Need Work 10 Dec 2010

• Not All Error Messages Are Informative 13 Aug 2010

• Separating Design From Implementation is a Bad Idea 02 Jul 2010

• Understanding large numbers 16 May 2010

• Moving to Fossil 15 May 2010

• Fossil ignores files by default 15 May 2010

• Zed Shaw and Learning Python The Hard Way 09 May 2010

• Fun with XHTML 09 May 2010

• Interesting claims about testing SQLite 20 Apr 2010

• Solving the birthday problem using Ruby 07 Apr 2010

• Testing AJAX with curl and Apache Bench 31 Mar 2010

• {"Three choices"=>"Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering"} 14 Mar 2010

• How Can We Detect Slow Changes? 07 Feb 2010

• Chip and Pin Credit Card Vulnerabilities 06 Feb 2010

• A tale of woe related to optimization 17 Jan 2010

• Browser standards and slow progress 14 Jan 2010

• Just because Zed is so awesome 13 Jan 2010

• An interesting python project 13 Jan 2010

• Why this site has the CO2 badge 09 Jan 2010

• A defense of the GPL 08 Jan 2010

• Improving Documentation 11 Nov 2009

• Uncle Bob on Test Driven Development 08 Oct 2009

• Talk About Being Late To The Party 03 Oct 2009

• So Much For "Don't Be Evil" 03 Oct 2009

• What to do when the estimate is wrong 18 Sep 2009

• Decentralizing social media 15 Sep 2009

• Back after a long gap 01 Sep 2009

• UML is Bloated? 16 May 2008

• C is still a viable language 27 Jan 2008

• In Praise of C and C++ 23 Jul 2007

• Idiomatic Ruby 18 Jul 2007

• Sometimes I forget that I like Ruby 12 Mar 2007

• Backup script for typo blogs 14 Feb 2007

• Tools are interesting, important, and irrelevant 08 Feb 2007

• An interesting design failure 09 Oct 2006

• Seen a Computer Operator recently? 23 Aug 2006

• Immediate Gratification? 04 Aug 2006