After having laid dormant for so long, CS-MIC has risen once again. Years in development, and months since the last update, CS-MIC is back with upgrades and improvements, both in the code library and in the project structure. Head on over to find out what the latest and greatest is all about.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Presentation Matters
As a professional software developer, my job is to plan, design and implement software solutions to problems. This involves learning about a business problem, the process that is followed, and designing software that makes this process easier or even automatic. Almost all software is written this way and for this purpose. And most developers do …
Tornado Warning
Standing in the bathroom waiting for the tornado warning to pass. I think the people in the hall are missing the point of taking shelter. Doesn’t matter if you stand outside in the hall if the hall is wide open and has two large open rooms on either side with window walls. 1/2 inch glass …
How I Wasted Two Days Learning SSIS Against My Will
So for two days I’ve been beating my head against the wall at work. The task was simple enough: Gather some some data. Cull the data. Dump said data to a file. Easy enough, right? Not so much. The Beginning I started this task like I would any other data centered task. I started with …
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Zombies
So I’ve been powering through an audio drama recently. We’re Alive is an amazing story about a zombie outbreak that is more complex than what I’ve seen in the past. In typical contemporary style, the zombies are fast. What this story does that I haven’t seen are how the zombies operate. To avoid spoilers, I’ll …
Computer Science Epiphany
It is a little embarrassing that it has taken me this long, but I recently had an epiphany as related to my career in computer science. It was kind of an earth shattering notion, really. It really hit home when I was attending the CodepaLOUsa conference. It hit me: just because someone is an authority on a subject …