From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Fine Tune Monarch

September 25, 2008

When I’m at my desk for anything longer than just a couple of minutes, you can almost guarantee that there will be music playing. And it’s usually one of the many songs I copied from my constantly growing CD collection to my computer. It’s no wonder that the iPod and portable media players in general [...]

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Is 80 Percent Better Than 100 Percent?

September 22, 2008

Technology blogger Robert Cringley wrote today about 80 percent solutions.
“80 percent solutions … are fast, increasingly reliable, and keep the end users in the loop from almost the beginning.”
This got me wondering: do 80% solutions now suffice nearly 100% of the time? And is this acceptable? Should we strive for more? Is the incremental improvement [...]

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Monarch Programming Class

September 15, 2008

Monarch is such a tremendous tool because it makes it possible for us do some pretty amazing thing with data, without needing in-depth technical skills.
You don’t need to be a master of Structured Query Language. You don’t need to know about ActiveX Data Objects. You don’t need to know about how to write software that [...]

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