I’ve been working a lot with Castle’s Active Record and Ruby on Rails in the last month and as a result have written significantly fewer basic CRUD operations and database access code. It’s been an addictive experience and has caused me to rethink the proper role of hand-written database code (sprocs) within an application. Although [...]
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In my last post I mentioned that I had recently decided that it was time to overhaul my approach to managing tasks. The changes I implemented were mostly inspired by a book by David Allen called Getting Things Done and I have been extremely pleased with the results so far. As promised, here are some [...]
I’ve always been somewhat prone to procrastination, especially in my personal life, but I’ve watched with growing trepidation as my task list has slowly grown out of control over the last several months. Part of this trend is due to being a new parent. I expected that having a newborn would consume the majority of [...]
