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The Not-Quite Lost Art of Code Reading
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The Not-Quite Lost Art of Code Reading | Motley Bytes The Not-Quite Lost Art of Code ReadingMay 12, 2014 by Eric Christiansen | Categories: Old DogNo Comments ↓When Coding was a Labor of LoveNot many people really realize how laborious it was to write program in the “old” days. When I started programming more than 40 years at age 13 things were a lot d…

New Post! Design Matters in More Than Just Software.
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Design Matters in More than Just Software. | Motley Bytes Design Matters in More than Just Software.October 30, 2013 by Eric Christiansen | Categories: Old DogNo Comments ↓In a prior post, Coding is Design, I described how all programming is a design activity. In this post I’d like to expand the discussion from software design to application design and exp...

New article "The Lineage Data Paradox" at http://www.motleybytes.com/archives/245 .

The Lineage Data Paradox | Motley Bytes The Lineage Data ParadoxOctober 5, 2013 by Eric Christiansen | Categories: Data ParadigmsNo Comments ↓SynopsisKnow where your data comes from.IntroductionData doesn’t come from nowhere. Initially, somebody has to key it in or some sensor has to measure and log it. Once data is in one computer is can...

Added "Update Delete Considered Harmful" white paper which describes the Virtual Update Delete, aka VUD, data paradigm. This is a radical new paradigm, patent pending, which is especially well suited to big data applications. See http://www.motleybytes.com/archives/182 .

Update Delete Considered Harmful | Motley Bytes Update Delete Considered HarmfulOctober 1, 2013 by Eric Christiansen | Categories: Data ParadigmsNo Comments ↓The Virtual Update Delete (VUD) Paradigm for Performance, Scalability and Manageability of Big DataThe link to the White Paper below describes a very important, radically different, US Paten...