Category Archives: Programming

SQL Is Obnoxious

Posted on November 18, 2021 by David K.

I find SQL obnoxious, due to its brevity. Getting complicated desired behavior from it sometimes requires clever understanding and combinations of very simple primitives. Because it’s taken me about 2 weeks (off and on) to work it out, I present, … Continue reading →

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OKAY | Why the status quo is so hard to change in engineering teams

Posted on November 3, 2021 by David K.

Before we talk about how to prevent it, let’s see how learned helplessness can happen in a development team. There are 2 main patterns: Pattern #1: Process-related Learned Helplessness In this case, the team needs to follow processes that have … Continue reading →

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Ruby on rails : problem of verifiying the SSL certificate while installing bundle

Posted on October 15, 2021 by David K.

I’m new with ruby on rails and while creating my first project with this command rails new n_project, i got this error run bundle installFetching source index from https://rubygems.org/ Retrying fetcher due to error (2/4): Bundler::Fetcher::CertificateFailureError Could not verify the … Continue reading →

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Arch Linux

Posted on September 4, 2021 by David K.

I finally took a look at Arch Linux. I started the process of installing it with Parallels on my MBP. I got to the GRUB configuration step, and then thought, “What in the world am I doing!?” And then I … Continue reading →

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Kinda a big announcement – Joel on Software

Posted on June 4, 2021 by David K.

I took a few stupid years trying to be the CEO of a growing company during which I didn’t have time to code, and when I came back to web programming, after a break of about 10 years, I found … Continue reading →

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Nine things we learned from the Epic v. Apple trial – The Verge

Posted on May 28, 2021 by David K.

It’s particularly notable since some people are worried that macOS is inching toward the iOS model, making it a little more difficult to install unauthorized software with each new version. If you were already anxious about the Mac ecosystem closing … Continue reading →

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Time Tracking Web Apps

Posted on April 16, 2021 by David K.

I work for a tech outsourcing firm, but I’m fully-subcontracted to a Fortune 250. My company recently switched away from their home-brew time tracking tool (which wasn’t completely terrible) to Workday. The transition was rough. You had to click several … Continue reading →

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TECH | Stop using JPA/Hibernate · Blog de Laurent Stemmer

Posted on April 12, 2021 by David K.

Here an example of a JPA entity (using Lombok for “simplicity”): <sarcasm quotes mine> Source: TECH | Stop using JPA/Hibernate · Blog de Laurent Stemmer Through a very long series of unfortunate circumstances, I was backed into using Java/Spring/Hibernate/Angular in … Continue reading →

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Build Your Own Database Driven Website

Posted on April 12, 2021 by David K.

I don’t remember what prompted me to remember this book, but it was, perhaps, the biggest influence which has shaped my career. I had already been a programmer since I was a kid, and I had already written a couple … Continue reading →

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What I wish I had known about single page applications – Stack Overflow Blog

Posted on February 24, 2021 by David K.

I settled on JHipster, a development platform for building web applications using modern technology: Angular, React or Vue for the client side, and Spring plus Gradle or Maven for the server side. It’s been around for years, is very well … Continue reading →

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