Category: Business
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Teaching and acting (or, why I don’t plan to sell recorded classes in the near future)
Several weeks ago, my wife and I saw a wonderful play at our local theater in Modi’in (“Mother Courage and Her Children“). At the end, the actors came out to receive their richly deserved applause. Three times, the actors came out, took their bows, and were warmly applauded by the audience. We loved their performance…
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Convention over confusion
One of the most celebrated phrases that has emerged from Ruby on Rails is “convention over configuration.” The basic idea is that software can traditionally be used in many different ways, and that we can customize it using configuration files. Over the years, configuration files for many types of software have become huge; installing software…
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Hello, world (again)
Hello out there! I’ve been privileged to work with many great people and companies since 1995, when I first started working as a consultant. I’ve helped companies to create Web applications from an idea, to learn programming languages, to improve their business processes, and to optimize their databases. The time has come to describe some…