Category Archives: Editorial

Scary Data Collection

Posted on April 18, 2019 by

Most of us would feel fairly creeped out by finding out an AirBnb or hotel had security cameras watching us. I’m not a woman, and I’m sure ladies are especially bothered by this, but there was an AirBnB rental where … Continue reading →

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Securing Code Early

Posted on April 17, 2019 by

Last year I started to get alerts from Microsoft Repos that someone had put a piece of security information in their code that pertained to one of my Azure services. At first I was worried, but then I realized this … Continue reading →

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Capturing the Application Time

Posted on April 16, 2019 by

I’ve always thought that any times we recorded in a row were related to the actual data itself. Almost all of the time I’ve built software, we’ve assumed that the time a row is written or updated is the time … Continue reading →

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Building a Database Engine

Posted on April 15, 2019 by

I never wrote a database engine, unless you count writing code to read, write, and update flat files. I remember doing that early in my life with a friend as we tried to build our fantasy baseball game system. We … Continue reading →

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