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| bio | website | movingsql.com |
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| location | New Jersey | |
| age | 55 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | Feb 26 at 19:53 | |
| stats | profile views | 10 |
coder & programmer of many defunct languages...
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Jan 30 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 30 |
answered | Fernando J. Corbató's “Constrained languages” |
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Oct 23 |
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“Never do in code what you can get the SQL server to do well for you” - Is this a recipe for a bad design? While its certainly possible to try to do too much in SQL, I can honestly say that in 30 years of development and consulting, I have never seen an actual serious case of it (a few minor ones). On the other hand, I have seen literally hundreds of serious cases of developers trying to do to much in "code" that they should have been doing in SQL. And I still do see them. Frequently ... |
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Jul 5 |
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I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? @haylem: No, if you use phrases like "Code Smells" they will know what you are talking about and they will be insulted, no matter how you try to dance around it. I have been in this exact situation (I was working for a team of Chemists at one of the world's largest companies) and I can tell you with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight that the problem is the use of deprecating and negative language like "Code Smells". Thinking that you can talk around a room full of people who are at least as smart as you (and probably smarter) is a fatal mistake. |
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Jul 5 |
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I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? "Code Smells" is going to be insulting to them. Don't insult the folks who employ you. |
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Jun 24 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Jun 24 |
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Non-blocking ORM issues @James: Actually, all of the major SQL DBMS products have fully asynchronous interfaces built-in. They just aren't ORM. |
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Oct 7 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
