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Better ReadyRoll Script Naming

One of the things that I like about ReadyRoll is that the product will automatically build new scripts that are named in a sequential order. This usually results in a few scripts that look like this: As you can see, … Continue reading

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Starting ReadyRoll with an Existing DB

I’ve been working with ReadyRoll quite a bit the last few months, and wanted to start putting out some information. I’m looking to do a longer series, but here’s a quick post on getting started. When you install ReadyRoll, you … Continue reading

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We Manage Algorithms

“Every business is an algorithmic business.” That was a phrase that Microsoft’s Joseph Sirosh used in a keynote at SQL Nexus, talking about the future of software and data. Rather than managing data, many of us will move to manage algorithms, … Continue reading

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Abstraction

One of the core tenets of good software design is to abstract away details in any particular part of an application. We want to use well defined and constructed interfaces so that the implementation of any particular method or section … Continue reading

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