Yak Shaving (uncountable): (idiomatic) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem. (idiomatic) A less useful activity done to consciously or unconsciously procrastinate about a larger but more useful task. Both interpretations of the term Yak Shaving as explained by Wiktionary are absolutely accurate … Continue reading Yak Shaving is a Good Way to Improve an API
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10 Reasons not to Choose a Particular Open Source software
We're all Software Engineers of one type or another. Most of us have one thing in common, though: We're lazy. And we know that someone else was less lazy and has already solved that tedious problem that we're on. And because we're not only lazy but also stingy, we search for Free Open Source software. … Continue reading 10 Reasons not to Choose a Particular Open Source software
Development schema, production schema
Most of us separate development data from production data, physically or at least, logically (except maybe Chuck Norris (official website, no kidding!)). If you're lucky and you can afford multiple Oracle / other-expensive-database licenses, you might clone the same schema / owner name for every application instance on different servers. But sometimes, you can't do … Continue reading Development schema, production schema