I am beginning to question the appropriateness of visual aids in professional software development. When I only occasionally had to look at database structures and test out SQL queries, I used tools like phpMyAdmin and MySQL Workbench which provide GUI visualizations and click-friendly database management. I now look back at those times in the same [...]
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My life without God
This is awkward.
Most of my family and friends consider me to be a devout Christian. Mostly they believe this because that’s what I’ve been until relatively recently. I have a few things to get off my chest about this and to set the record straight.
I was raised in a very devout and loving Christian home. [...]
S3, jVi, Turning 30 and Mortality
Amazon S3 is an amazing service. I just wrote some code at my day job to utilize S3 to offload static content to S3 which takes a huge load off the web servers. It has an amazingly simple REST API. It’s a breeze to use. I’m thinking about using S3 for my own personal backups. [...]