Showing posts with label IP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IP. Show all posts

Sunday, December 16, 2012

"Schema-less Models" and the New World Disorder



There is a tendency in the database field to distort, use poorly defined
terminology, or use it inconsistently.  As I already argued in previous posts, technologies that are founded or used without foundation knowledge and understanding will prove costly fads.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Forward to the Past: "Out-clevering" the DBMS



When I see a title like "Software Engineering: What are some clever programming techniques that aren't used often enough?" my antennae come up. More often than not (1) programmers consider certain things clever only because they are not familiar with history (2) in its quest for solving problems engineering sometimes tries to out-clever science, which usually spells trouble.

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