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SD Times reports : “…Evans Data today released statistics that showed MySQL usage growing among developers over the past two years. The results of this two-year survey showed that 40 percent of American developers are using databases in their work, and among those, 25 percent more are using MySQL than were two years ago. A […]

Dare added together the some of his experiences. You would be surprised how many projects I’ve seen like this. I especially like the piece on Schedule Chicken. Its fantastic.
I think this list is almost as great as Spolsky’s top 10 check list for tools and process.
Link here…..

Speaking of LINQ, Caber Computing offers a beta for a product called SqlTac which hopes to do several interesting things. First it attempts to provide a graphical representation of the “soundness” or efficiency of your db. Secondly it allows you to cretae  versioned set of scripts plus a test database containing – you guessed it […]

Jeffrey Palermo pointed out that MS (ScottGu) maybe coming out with an MVC implementation in ASP.NET. I welcome the idea. At the same time I am very curious how they will solve the routing table that is so handily managed by RoR for example.
In the case of our PathNET implementation , we actually used a […]

I used to hate Scobles posts. All this Rah Rah Rah for Microsoft. Then he left. And ever since I’ve enjoyed him a little more  
So here he is taking Ballmer and company to task on the issue of Leadership. He makes some very interesting points about Google in the process.
It reminds me of […]

Many teams are in the business of creating the same, or virtually the same, application again and again. Typically, the core logic stays the same, but there’s often the need to customize the interface and often customer-specific business rules. As with all teams, companies struggle with how to keep down their development and maintenance costs. […]

Rocky has a great post about the increasing complexity of our world and the increasing trend toward specialization.
I agree with him and like to add that perhaps the success of RoR with its well defined universe of “stuff” is a testament to the fact that there are plenty of people ready for the simpler […]

Louis Davidson at simple-talk has an article by the same name. I’ve pulled the following section from it, because I am currently faced with EXACTLY this problem. One of our Architecture Astronauts thought it would be good to store differing types of data in one table.
One of the hardest things in our industry is […]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This time I want to write about  team / management structure and how it may affect the quality of your end product.
Recently I commented on the book “Founders at Work”. Specifically the interview with the founder of ArsDigita. Some time has passed, but even now I find myself rerunning a couple of lines of […]