Donโ€™t Fear The Rewrite

Keith Shakib Articles, Programming, Tutorial 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Over the past dozen years, Iโ€™ve been involved in half a dozen engagements where my role was to lead an effort to rewrite a …

My Experience With FireDaemon Pro

Keith LaPee .NET, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Opinion Leave a Comment

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Introduction There’s a nifty piece of software I’ve run across called FireDaemon Pro – I’d love to share my experiences, as it’s a great …

First Experiences With Windows 8

John Boardman Articles, Opinion, Programming 5 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.This is a departure from many of the other Keyhole blogs, in that it deals with system software and hardware. However, make sure to …

Is NoSQL The SQL Sequel?

Lou Mauget Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Opinion, SQL 8 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.โ€œCanโ€™t we all just get along?โ€ย  I assert that the explosion of so-called NoSQL database management systems (DBMS) is not displacing the well-known relational …

Programmers and the Amazon Have This in Common

Tim Broyles Articles, Programming 1 Comment

Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Have you ever been stuck on a problem, some seemingly un-explainableย production malfunction in the code? Youโ€™ve stepped though it with the debugger, run enumerable …