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Book Club 10/2024: Fallacies of Distributed Computing
October 28, 2024
Happy Halloween! Boo! I'm celebrating now for two reasons. First, the weather is very nice where I'm at; I prefer wearing more layers and Fall is the perfect...
Book Club 9/2024: Blogroll
September 28, 2024
As I posted a couple weeks ago, this month is the anniversary of restarting my blog! As though trapped in a Norm MacDonald interview, I'm frequently asked by...
Book Club 8/2024: Labor
September 2, 2024
Happy Labor Day to those in the US! This is the August Book Club but I'm sending it out a couple days late to coincide with Labor Day. I don't have a central...
Book Club 6&7/2024: Postgres
July 29, 2024
I hope you all in the northern hemisphere are enjoying summer; I've been trying to take some extra time here and there to enjoy things before Minnesota...
Book Club 5/2024: SOLID
May 29, 2024
Happy Memorial Day to those in the US, I haven't had time to post a lot this month but hopefully this one is controversial enough to make up for it! SOLID,...
Book Club 4/2024: I Don't Like ORMs
April 24, 2024
Indeed, Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) are a negative thing to me. For the uninitiated, these are tools which automagically provide ways of mapping data...
Book Club 3/2024: Simplicity
March 25, 2024
Everything is too complicated. Not just in software, everything! This isn't a novel concept, Teddy Roosevelt would have us believe that anything worth doing...
Book Club 2/2024: Recovering from TDD and Unit Tests
February 24, 2024
I'm on the record as having labeled myself a unit test hater. This is perhaps a bit extreme taken at face value; I like to advocate for approaches which...
Book Club 1/2024: What is a Software Architect?
January 24, 2024
This question - what is a software architect? - is a bit of an expansive one; I wouldn't think that I could ever answer it thoroughly, much less succinctly...
Book Club 12/2023: Workflow, Process, and Agile
December 16, 2023
Ho ho ho merry book club day - I'm sending this one out a bit early; tomorrow I'm headed on vacation and won't be back until the new year. Preemptively...
Book Club 11/2023: New .NET, New C#
November 22, 2023
I'm looking forward to turkey day tomorrow gobble gobble! This year I'm thankful that I work in ecommerce so I get to have a peaceful extended weekend...
Book Club 10/2023: Functional Patterns in C#
October 27, 2023
Happy spooky season! This month I've focused on functional domain modeling and related patterns. We're just a few weeks away from the release of the next...
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