Mike-O-Matic

Today I am driving up to Connecticut to attend a wedding, so my writing capabilities will be limited.  Instead, I would like to present to you this site that a coworker passed along.  It’s called Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke.  I’m not sure if everyone is familiar with Marmaduke, but you will be soon.
Til next […]

Recently I found myself searching for a web designer to help me on some of 18th Street’s projects. A quick post to craigslist later, I had an inbox full of resumes and solicitations.
Like many non-designers, I have a hard time articulating exactly what I want my websites to look like; if I knew, I could […]

Oracle is a fickle mistress.
In the quest to extend the tenticles of the database to every part of the enterprise, Oracle (the company) has incorporated many questionable things into Oracle (the database). I still remember programming a stored procedure to connect to the United Parcel Service web server over HTTP with a particular undocumented […]

For many organizations, the choice to upgrade their technology platform is a watershed event. A chance to finally stop dealing with the frustrations of aging infrastructure, and reinvigorate their workforce with a newer, sexier technical challenge. Old wrongs are redressed, useless projects jettisoned for better integrated alternatives.
If not managed correctly, however, the transition […]

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Good post over at Maryland Media the other day. In it, Martin talks about the silliness of hiring managers to use “years of experience” as a catchall way of separating candidates. He says:
Why does experience matter at all? “Experience” is really just a one-word’er that gives an employer a sense of expectation – […]

Being relatively new to the (active) blogging world, I often visit ProBlogger.net to learn some of the newest tricks of the trade. The site is packed with information for those looking to earn a little money with their hobby. The $20 sitting in my AdSense account after 3 months tells me I may […]

I came across an article on Coding Horror the other day where Jeff talked about Ted Neward’s post, Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science. In it, Jeff more or less agrees with Ted’s (rather provocative) statement. He says:
It’s a scary analogy, but an apt one. I’ve seen developers struggle for years […]

For a long time, people looking to introduce animations to their website needed to resort to a third-party plugin such as Flash or Java applets to get the job done. The recent rise of AJAX and DHTML have changed the argument substantially. Semantic web programming, CSS, and Javascript form a powerful platform which […]

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