On a project I’ve been working on, I’ve recently seen several ADOdb cache write errors being thrown. When searching Google for a possible cause I didn’t find anything, so I thought I’d put this bread crumb out there for any others who might be experiencing the same problem. ADOdb is a database abstraction library for [...]

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Recently I picked up Chad Fowler’s book My Job Went To India.  Lousy title, sure, but the content of the book is good.  Whereas The Pragmatic Programmer is good, general technical advice, My Job Went To India is good, general career advice.  I’m about half way through it so far and recommend it. Lesson 11 [...]

Neal Ford has a recent post called Sidekick Oriented Architecture.  I recommend reading it for the stories he tells, but the point he makes is a good one: Service Oriented Architecture is only achievable through message passing. It’s a simple concept that makes sense when it is articulated, but unless you consciously think about it [...]