Programming owes its strength to our long legacy of knitting
What if you could write a piece of code today that could be read, understood, and executed thousands of years in the future? Imagine the GitHub requests from the year 4018 for something you wrote today! Well, the knitting world is doing just that, using code (i.e., knitting patterns) written hundreds of years ago that can still be executed today. read...
Learning to be open without turning into a mesmerized chicken
I received my signed copy of The Open Organization straight from Jim Whitehurst’s hand just around the time I started living the open organization dream. I’d recently been promoted to take on a new role that I’d designed myself—a bit of meritocracy in action that proved to me how standing fully in open organization values can lead to great rewards. read...
MySQL without the MySQL: An introduction to the MySQL Document Store
MySQL can act as a NoSQL JSON Document Store so programmers can save data without having to normalize data, set up schemas, or even have a clue what their data looks like before starting to code. Since MySQL version 5.7 and in MySQL 8.0, developers can store JSON documents in a column of a table. By adding the new X DevAPI, you can stop embedding nasty strings of structured query language in your code and replace them with API calls...
