S.Lott-Software Architect

I was told a horror story about a bad database schema migration. Let's call the author of the horror story HPL. HPL related a tale of ...

Appleworks (formerly Clarisworks) is software that's been dead meat since 2007. See  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks#End_of_Ap...

It may be helpful to look back at ' How Managers Say "No" ' which is about breaking the RDBMS Hegemony. I got an email i...

Got an email looking for help in attempting break through the RDBMS Hegemony . It's a little confusing, but this is the important part o...

The HamCalc program binhop is one of those little nuggets of beauty that might be helpful or might be useless. Or. Perhaps there's some...

A recent question "what we might expect, in terms of 1) Time to completion, 2) Cost to implement according to the mockup, 3) Monthly ...

I get emails looking for help with technology choice. Essentially: "I've got this idea for game-changing software idea, what techno...