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Software Quotes and Counter Quotes
Certain phrases and motifs are repeated in software efforts.
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Design Orientation and Optimization
Considering how to concurrently maximize output via vertical and horizontal optimization.
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The Triad of Graduate Studies
The Research Community, Research Subject, and Research Process.
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Software Learning: The Art Of Design Regret
How should software engineers try to classify their reflections?
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Key Value
Of all non-relationals, the key-value store is by far the most popular due to its extreme simplicity.
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Is Computing a Team Sport?
I take a peek at the history of computing to see if pioneering early developments were the results of team effort.
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The Art Of Speedy Systems Conversions
System conversions represent a type of development in which project scope includes all the effort of an initial software release, plus an entirely new set of complexities...
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Document
Document databases are particularly useful in app development.
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Now What? Order and Test
Exploring minimal control flow operations ends in flowcharts.
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Column
The elements of one of the most used and popular data designs around.
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Understanding NoSQL Database Types: Graph Databases
SQL represents data stored in rows and tables, while high-growth NoSQL is data stores arranged via nested documents as columnar schemas or key-value pairs. One...
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NoSQL vs. SQL
Broadly, NoSQL has an absence of strict schemas for entities/attributes, while SQL rigidly relates/regulates the two.
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NoSQL: A Beginner's Guide
What exactly is NoSQL, and why should it matter in today's hyper-connected society?
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Time to Resurrect PSP?
The Personal Software Process encourages programmer discipline. Largely forgotten, it does have a few wrinkles, but understanding and applying its core ideas remains...
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The Year-Round Joys and Benefits of Open Source Software
One of the things that makes us programmers feel warm and fuzzy is open source software. Companies support open source too. Why give something away for free? A...
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Tracking Down a Seminal Work on Computer Construction – in Russian
A Russian edition of Rutishauser's standard work on computer construction.
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