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 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.…

 In our innovation week I looked at an overlapping mesh of topics that (I think) all dovetailed together nicely. Initially I was interested in checking out Cypress component testing – a new feature released a few versions ago that I had read up on a little but hadn’t had time to play around with much.…

Recently we got fiber installed at our house raising our connection speed up to a gig. We could have went higher (2/2.5?) but honestly a gig seems like so much (8x faster than our theoretical top speed on coaxial, which we never actually hit – 200 mbps)  that it seemed crazy to punch it up,…

function destroyer(arr, …throwAway) {   return arr.filter(elem => !throwAway.includes(elem)); } destroyer([1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3], 2, 3); The above was a solution on Free Code Camp on their Javascript course, part of the ‘Advanced Algorithms’ section. The problem posed was: You will be provided with an initial array as the first argument to the…

 Devmoot happened this past Friday at Relix, right up the road from my house. It’s a tech conference sort of akin to Codestock just a bit smaller, happening on a single day and on a single-course track (speakers all lined up in one room, one audience rather than the mix/match style of Codestock). Tech conferences can…

 Today is Saturday, September 23, 2023. Today is officially the first day of fall.  i.e. the “autumnal equinox”, when the sun’s energy is approximately balanced between the northern and southern hemispheres and the 24 hour cycle is ~ 12 hours day/night. After today the northern hemisphere will begin to tilt away from the sun, shortening the…

A Dive at Ft. Dickerson  Check out the above link, kinda cool. 

Up on the rim of the Arctic circle sits Iceland. It was founded a very long time ago (early middle ages? 900-something AD) by Danish settlers and has a pretty interesting history (go see the ‘Saga’ museum if you’re ever in Reykjavik, as well as the national museum).  This church is called Hallgrìmskirkja. The statue…

 Intro As a QA Engineer I’ve been a part of the software development process and certainly worked around source control solutions a lot. TFS, Azure DevOps, GitLab…I also had my own GitHub account for literally years…which sat there for most of that time practically unused outside of forking a repo here and there to look…