Reducing the Cycle Time
Building software can be hard and lots of people have tried various methodologies to improve the way their teams work. Steve notes a lot of the process is the same, but he has a preference.
2024-12-04
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software development
Separate Reads
Today Steve wonders how many software developers use separate connections for reads and writes in their application.
2024-11-13
111 reads
Tech Debt Perils
Ignoring technical debt can cause no shortage of problems for companies. Today Steve has a recent example of this.
2024-10-21
151 reads
Everything is Code
The executives at CrowdStrike testify before the US Congress, noting their software development process needs work.
2024-10-11
157 reads
Keep. It. Simple.
How simple should software development be? Steve notes it can be simple, but not too simple.
2024-10-09
172 reads
Storing and Retrieving the Initialization and Configuration Data for Applications
All developers hit the problem of how and where to store and set their configuration, profile, or initial data. A long time ago, it was generally decided that simple text files containing key/values were best, stored with the application. After all, you are relying on being able to entice busy people to get the permanent settings right for their requirements, folks who are generally not interested in your elegant computer science constructs. Not only that, but the settings must be parsed very quickly and efficiently, otherwise a process that uses the tool will slow to a crawl.
2024-10-04
Bad Stored Procedures
Stored procedures can be poorly written, but Steve prefers them over embedded code.
2024-09-20
399 reads
Event Streams for Persistent and Asynchronous Microservice Communication
This article looks at how you can use event sourcing to maintain persistent and asynchronous communication between microservices.
2024-09-11
A Lack of Architecture and Planning
Today Steve talks about how we end up with software systems that don't appear to be well engineered.
2024-08-19
195 reads
A Programmer's Attitude
The way we approach development can have a big impact on quality, as well as how smoothly our team works together.
2024-07-19
161 reads
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Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers