Any solution to a problem involves trade-offs. One of my managers a long time ago used to be fond of saying some variation of There are an infinite number of solutions to a problem. A subset of those will work. A subset of those will work well. A subset of those are actually worth doing.… Read More »
A recent article ‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth hit a couple of points that I have been explaining to people for years. Although the author makes a few interesting points, he misses several more. The author describes a system written using a “database as a service” system with little to no code, that solves… Read More »
XML.com: Opening Open Formats with XSLT [Feb. 04, 2004] This article by Bob DuCharme is a great example of something we don’t see enough of. He takes data from a defined XML application (OpenOffice.org Impress format). He uses standard tools (XSLT) to extract and format data useful to him. This is not the normal If… Read More »