When professions intersect

This afternoon, I took part in an online "virtual coffee break" with STC. During the conversation, something was mentioned about indexing. At that point, my mind shifted. To me, at that moment, "indexing" didn't refer to technical communication, but rather to SQL Server. A number of things occurred to me at that moment. Although "indexing" …

My first robotics competition

Last Saturday, I had an opportunity to attend my first robotics competition! The opportunity came up when my friend Andy Levy came to town with his team for a competition! Andy wrote a couple of 'blog articles about his robotics experience; you can read them here and here! It was a fun time, and I …

An introduction to the C4 model

(Image source: The C4 Model for Software Architecture) This week, I was introduced to a new (to me) methodology called the C4 model. Now, in this context, C4 does not refer to the high explosive. In this case, C4 refers to a development methodology. Mostly, it refers to software development, but it has other applications …

Improvement through rewriting

If you're an application developer (or at least you used to be one, like me), how many times have you come across an old piece of code that you wrote and said to yourself, "what the f*%k was I thinking?!?" You say to yourself, I can write that much better now than I did back …

The #Coronavirus chronicles, part 19: Revisiting MIDI sequencing and songwriting #COVID19

Years ago -- another lifetime ago, it seems -- I was a songwriter. I actually had several demos that I put together (you can listen to them here), and I had a few friends who helped me put them together (mostly because I don't play the guitar, and I can't sing worth a damn). My …

Uninstalling SQL Server

As I wrote earlier, I discovered, much to my chagrin, that I vastly underestimated how much disk space I would need when I purchased my laptop. So I went to Amazon and bought a new 2TB internal SSD for my machine. It'll take about a week or so to arrive. Until it gets here, I …