October 2003 I sat one day, arriving a few minutes early, at 7:48am. I’d spent the last few days tearing through tons of code and schema designs. I finally was at a point where the product was working. I looked across to my fellow associates’ seats and smiled. Today I was proud that I would... Continue reading →

One of the things I really got ingrained in my habit while working at Bank of America was the respect of other people’s time. Especially in fast moving projects this is a very important thing to practice. While working at BoA one could literally be let go if they did not respect other people’s time... Continue reading →

In many ways describing what is and is not an actor is best left to project specifics and personal experience. Below I’ve outlined a good rule to follow when trying to figure out if a “thing” is an actor or not in a use case. Continue reading →

Sometimes I hate stupid statements like that. More secure than “what” Linux is what I’d like to know. But to the point, some articles printed that I picked up from Steven Smith‘s entry on the topic. Usage stats of operating systems 90 day report of security vulnerabilities Continue reading →

I’ve been on a run about coding standards lately, reading about them, figuring out which to follow and which to not follow. Well one thing I had not been looking at much was database standards. I realized I had a bunch of questions; how do you name tables, according to what schema, are views concatenated... Continue reading →