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Double Check Your Math

Posted on December 23, 2019 by way0utwest

Performing calculations in our applications is important. In fact, if we do any sort of math, we really want to ensure that our results are what we expect. That seems obvious, but I’ve run into applications where the code deployed … Continue reading →

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Do What Hurts

Posted on October 22, 2019 by way0utwest

A long time ago I heard a manager at a company say that if something is hard, we ought to practice it more and find ways to make it easy. Barring that, we ought to at least be comfortable with … Continue reading →

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Adding a License to GitHub

Posted on October 21, 2019 by way0utwest

I’ve rarely thought about licensing my code, but it’s something to be aware of for your work. Most of us freely share code, though I have started to add a minor copyright and as is notation to some of my … Continue reading →

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Very Hot Patches

Posted on October 8, 2019 by way0utwest

“At best it would crash” is not a phrase I’d like to have to use as a data professional. That’s a quote from an article that the Azure team wrote about hot patching SQL Server. While this sounds very scary, … Continue reading →

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