Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated.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.“A DBMS as an application server? Is it Lotus Notes?” CouchDB CouchDB seemed odd to me in 2009 because it had … no SQL! …
iPhone/iPad Development With MonoTouch – A Tutorial
Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated.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.What if your boss came to you today and said: “We need to build a mobile iPhone/iPad application for our company’s legacy desktop application.” …
Is NoSQL The SQL Sequel?
Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated.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.“Can’t we all just get along?” I assert that the explosion of so-called NoSQL database management systems (DBMS) is not displacing the well-known relational …
Are you Simple-minded?
Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated.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.Just a few months ago, I hired someone to install a picket fence in my backyard. I had three separate quotes of varying price …
The Data Access Layer, Part 2 – Using the Criteria API
Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated.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.In Part One of this series, I reviewed the basic design goals of a Data Access Layer (DAL), those being: Contain all of the …