Cyclomatic Complexity  🌪 : …a software metric used to indicate the complexity of a program. It is a quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths through a program’s source code. It was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976. So it’s like those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books from when you were a kid, i.e. if you want to…

  I drove north of Cincinnati a few days ago to see my first total eclipse. I had seen a partial one before and almost didn’t see this one because it seemed redundant (one passed through here in 2017 that was, I think, 90%). Turns out 10% of the sun is still a lot of…

Values, Principles, Virtues ELI5 Answer: Values are subjective, personal, emotional, and arguable, while principles are objective, factual, impersonal, and self-evident because they are indisputable. Principles are universal truths based on natural laws. While values govern behaviors, principles govern the consequences of those behaviors. Values are the things that you think are good, or better than…

 kinds of features: new app new code, new class/function(s) new functionality that didn’t exist before updated app maybe new code, updated old code – same classes/function(s) same functionality, just enhanced  updated system system architecture – a system is updated (some component of the larger system) bigger than an app, difference here being one of scale…

 The song Big Rock Candy Mountain got stuck in my head the other day, it was in the background of some Instagram clip. It’s a classic old folk song, I think everyone knows it. I kinda/sorta did but like a lot of ear worms once it got lodged in my skull I realized I knew maybe…

I am currently setting up my first-ever Raspberry Pi. This tiny single-board computer can be used for a lot of practical projects, (mine will be a small database and/or file server). Besides being practical it’s also just fun to build something like that and see it work. They’re used a lot in education to inspire kids…

 An interesting article focusing specifically on Athletic Brewing and also the non-alcoholic beer trend in general.  This past year we made a serious commitment to to cut way back on alcohol consumption as a part of an overall attempt at healthier living. While that is great for ones liver it can pose some interesting social issues.…

  I was dropping off my car to the dealership for routine maintenance. The nice gentleman in the service department was taking down my info and asking a series of car-related questions regarding the maintenance history. Ah…here comes that sense of dread creeping up my spine. For some inexplicable reason I feel this compulsion to…

 The steps of BI (Business Intelligence) Requirements gathering Data Retrieval Data prep Data Modeling Dashboards/Reports So this has been in the forefront of my mind lately. I’m working on a project (work-adjacent but not directly related) where I’m standing up a SQL server in Azure, creating a database on that server, then populating data to…

I had never heard of Phillip Amour’s Five Orders of Ignorance until I read about them in Alan Page’s book “The A Word” . Quote follows: 0OI – Zero-Oh-I is lack of ignorance. It’s when you know something. I know, for example, that the first track on the Rolling Stone’s Sticky Fingers album is Brown Sugar.…