Today I’m going to do a little bit of trolling, trying to get feedback from you. Instead of asking which is better between two competing products, I am asking for your feedback to continue, and improve my daily column. I’d like you to leave a comment, or drop me an Email, answering any of the following questions:
- Why do you read my editorial?
- What do you like most?
- What do you like least?
- Would you like to see anything new?
Here are the guidelines that tend to drive my content. Although I have used many different platforms over the years, I am, at the core, a Microsoft stack developer. Those are the tools my clients use; that’s what I know best; that’s what I get to do; that’s what I write about the most.
I am also an avid data engine enthusiast. I like them all. They were developed because they fit a need no other engine provided at the time. I continuously find or make projects to utilize as many as I have time. I believe the time is coming when you will no longer focus on a single persistence engine or technology.
I enjoy building HICH capacity applications. Rules engines and data mining are key skills working with massive data and distributed processing.
I really enjoy SQL, and love to make it sing. Set logic, for me, is like doing Soduku. There is nothing more fun than figuring out how to do something with set logic in a single query, than using looping logic, or even cursors.
I am always in school, learning new skills in code, processes, tools, etc. Patterns, principles, and architectural designs consume a great deal of my learning curve. These are transferable concepts, regardless of your programming language.
I get to write an Editorial for SSWUG to be published Monday thru Friday. I am supposed to write a few paragraphs, usually no more than a page, and often less. I have little restriction on topics, as long as they are targeted towards Information Resources.
That being said, would you respond to one or more of my questions? You can leave a comment here, or drop an email to btaylor@sswug.org. Add anything else you’d like to share if you have time. Write as little or as much as you like!
Cheers,
Ben