Data Management Blog

Renewed this one. I first took this in 2018 with a renewal in 2020. It's been interesting to see how it has evolved over time.  First, n...

The Supreme Court sided with Google in its suit over the repurposing of APIs under the aegis of "fair use". They over-turned the ...

Lots of hard work to achieve this for sure but well worth it! 

When will the end of push happen?  I'm desperately waiting for the humane demise of what has become an inhumane technology.  One that...

Yet Another Markup Language?  Really? That was my view of YAML for a very long time.  As someone who has no problem with various format...

Passed the exam today.  Really pleased at reaching this goal.  I guess I've gone from knowing just enough to be dangerous to being ac...

Adventures in cloud computing.  Like many folks, I've been reading about this new game changer for some time.  And been experimenting...

Recently gave a presentation on the relationship between JSON and Xml technologies.  I'd set it in the context of "friend or foe...

Reading quite a bit recently about the technology that is popularly known as Bitcoin .  The use of block chain computing power to solve math...

I've been in car maintenance mode as you can probably tell.  This time, its been a long standing issue. Quite frankly these brakes have ...

Here is another item in the "anything else" category.  Recently had some car trouble and make a short video of a repair I did.  I ...

Ran into a rather maddening problem last week.  I was working on a front end to a tool and was planning on using JSP within a Tomcat environ...

This goes into the "anything else" category. One of my other passions is rock and roll music. And many people who hang around th...

I want to give a shout out to Priscilla Walmsley's list of XSLT functions .  I have used it many times and find the site easy to read an...