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Jeff Makes Software

The software musings of Jeff Putz

  • Poor physical coding environments

    Who was the rocket scientist that decided cubicle office environments were a good idea? I agree that certain occupations might be well suited for this, but programming is not one of them.

  • Getting sucked into Apple culture

    They opened up an Apple store here in the Greater Cleveland area, in a real trendy area on the east side in a trendy new outdoor mall. Make no mistake... I am a devout iPod user and there are more than 100 songs so far from the iTunes music store on the little guy.

  • Wi-Fi in weird places

    I coach 17 open Olympic volleyball for a club in Cleveland. We have practice today at an elementary school that I've not yet been to. Not knowing how long it would take to get here from the other side of town, having to cross through downtown, I just went for it. Better early than late.

  • Stored procedures, business logic and certifications

    I was getting into it on another site with this guy who insists that you should apply business rules to data in stored procedures, going as far as to quote something either on MSDN or in a certification training book. I disagreed with him but he was sure he was right.

  • When do you stop with the extensibility?

    The current project I'm on is with a major insurance company replacing, over the next four years, its old mainframe policy processing system. It's all fairly organized, but there are two problems that are making it less than fun.