J D Curtis

Gratitude and faithfulness

I write this in Essen, Germany, a day before DNUG 2019, jet-lagged and somewhat dazed. The hotel cocoon that wraps

(Disclaimer – though I do not and will not disclose identities or venues in what follows, I must say I

I write code, at an average of about 3000-5000 lines a year. But sometimes a lot more, like in 2002-2004

Every trip I take there are moments of apprehension. I won’t call them fear; it’s not that strong a sentiment.

If nothing else in life I want to be painfully honest. Of course honesty can be painful not just for

So, DQL. More about DQL. I was writing some more automated tests yesterday and part of the automation is to

We celebrated the shipment of Domino V10 at Brunswick Zone Lowell Lanes, about a 15 minute drive from our office

During a wave of fatigue in the end game of shipping a piece of software, a quality engineer (that is

I had heard a story of an experiment performed on a community of monkeys. Don’t worry, it’s not true. Well,

Efficiency in programming languages is achieved by avoiding bad practices like excessive looping, too many I/O or network operations and