Before I was an entrepreneur, I was a developer. And a geek…
After I was an entrepreneur, I let my inner-nerd come back to life!
Quoting Jim Gray [dead link] again: "We have an embarrassment of riches in that we're able to store more than we can access. Capacities continue to double each year, while access times are improving at 10 percent per year. So, we have a vastly larger...
[Version française] Almost everyday, I read someone saying "why would someone still use [a suposedly abandoned] IE when he could indeed use a [supposedly better] Firebird ?". Hold on guys... you know brainwashing may not be the best way to evangelize,…...
Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET - All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn…
"Verdana is my favorite Microsoft product." -Michael J. Tsai.
I have been realizing lately... it is very hard to blog while you code :( Guess what? I have been coding like mad for the last week! :>> Reminded me of high-school days :))
“A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a dangerously perfect match.” – Bill…...