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July 11, 2019 Uncategorized

TDR – Summary Data

“Things done right” is a series of blog entries focusing in on both legacy and modern design and implementation componentry

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April 17, 2019 Uncategorized

The interview coding test

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

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February 23, 2019 Uncategorized

On second thought

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

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December 7, 2018 Uncategorized

“I can use DQL!”

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

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October 19, 2018 Uncategorized

Building résumés

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

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October 10, 2018 Uncategorized

The case of the fictional monkey experiment

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

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September 29, 2018 Uncategorized

Concerning the Design Catalog …

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

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September 15, 2018 Uncategorized

DQL roots

A few years ago, I and 3 of my colleagues were drafted for a skunkworks effort, a throwaway project. Prove

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September 4, 2018 Uncategorized

Testing .. just do it

True, though paraphrased discussion (circa 2002): Me: We should have a full test harness and throw low level errors so

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