Grey Matter: Code Generation On A Budget
A large word document plonked into my outlook inbox with the specs for my latest project. After reading through I came across the database schema from hell.
It starts like this:
And ends merrily like this:
The fields are of a revealing nature so these are just substitutes.
The problem is that these are columns of a […]
Borland: Adapt Or Perish
I cut my development teeth with cutting edge technology like DBASE III+ (10 points to anyone that can remember what pack does!). I then moved on to even more cutting edge technology called Access 2.
Inevitably I found myself in Visual Basic 6. Which was pretty fine until a succession of rough experience on two projects […]
Browser Browser
So I installed Internet Explorer 7 on Friday. I have despised IE ever since I can remember, and used Firefox even before it was called Firefox. Yes sir, I distinctly recall downloading and extracting the zip file that contained a browser called Phoenix. Version 0.4
I cannot begin to enumerate the things I find so irritating […]
Downloads, Versions and Coupling
It amazes me just how even the biggest companies continue to make a very fundamental mistake — failing to clearly label the versions of their software. How many companies release software and fail to indicate the release date and/or version numbers, leaving you wondering if you should download it or not? More than you’d think! […]
