I go downtown to Backspace a lot, as often as possible. Aside from riding around on the Streetcar with the ole’ trusty laptop out Backspace is probably one of my top favorites for coding away. Good coffee, good donuts and other such foods, vegetarian stuff and some other grub – that might not be vegetarian... Continue reading →

Often I sit wondering how I should kill the time I have between cube builds and incremental builds. Even when I have a minimal amount of data in a cube the sucker can take a couple of minutes to even 15-30 minutes sometimes to build. It all really depends, but needless to mention, it isn’t... Continue reading →

I sat down and re-read my last blog entry. It might have come off in a way that I might not have wanted, but I’m 100% against deleting content or altering (except for spelling corrections). Amended text or another entry are just fine in my opinion for correcting things said before. It shows growth as... Continue reading →

President’s Day. Not sure why their is a holiday for the Presidents but I really don’t care, I have the day off! George Washington is probably rolling in the grave realizing we’ve not heeded barely a single of his or the fore fathers warnings. But as I said, I have the day off, so no... Continue reading →

A recent topic that has come up in discussion is pieces of middle tier patterns and libraries. I decided I’d enumerate some of the pieces I’ve used in middle tier work throughout my career, then I thought, “why?” Instead, I’m going to scour the net and grab some current libraries, CTPs, patterns and practices, and... Continue reading →