Tag Archives: software development

Costing Cool Projects

Posted on December 8, 2010 by way0utwest

I ran across this article on how accounting can kill innovation, basically talking about the issues of applying our standard accounting rules and ROI calculations to innovative ideas. When an idea is too new, or too different, applying estimates of … Continue reading →

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Coding With Music

Posted on December 3, 2010 by way0utwest

Lots of developers use headphones and music at work, though I think corporate life in cubes encourages this, just to block out the distractions. When the walls of your office stop at the 5 foot level, you might need all … Continue reading →

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Google Scale

Posted on November 16, 2010 by way0utwest

I heard someone talking the other day about how Google needs to optimize their code. They really pay attention to low level operation of their software, actually having people spend time writing compilers and ensuring they generate efficient code. This … Continue reading →

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More Triggers

Posted on November 12, 2010 by way0utwest

In the old days of T-SQL, back when we wrote “CREATE TRIGGER …. FOR INSERT” we could only have one insert/update/delete trigger for each table. Eventually SQL Server allowed us to have multiple triggers, and even have some control over … Continue reading →

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