Archive for April, 2006

April 29, 2006

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Book Review

Book Review: Pragmatic Ajax

Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, and Dion Almaer bring us a valuable and enjoyable book describing Ajax. It is full of running examples, points out the major gotchas, and it’s a good read too! Recommended!

April 22, 2006

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Articles

Grotesque Hackery in XSL

Between the new book review page and a few other things, I just spent a few days in a painful, test-free update of my web site scripts. Here, a report on how much it hurt. Lessons learned? We’ll have to see what I do. Like lots of folks I know, I haven’t figured out how to do what I know I should.

April 17, 2006

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Book Review

Book Review: Refactoring Databases

Scott and Pramod have done an excellent job with this book. It’s full of practical advice about how to improve your database design, when to do it, and even how to manage the transitions. If your project involves a database, this book can help.

April 14, 2006

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Articles

Impact of Overtime on Productivity

More features will always bring more revenue, more customer satisfaction, other good things. Therefore there is always pressure for people to work harder, longer hours. This is demonstrably a Bad Idea. Here’s some evidence, and some ideas about how to know if pressure is too high.

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Why Did You Do That, Ron?

Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.

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