Code & Coffee - 10/15/2021

 No official topic today

• Brief discussion on crypto currencies
• Really DODO coin?  not sure that would be my first choice for a coin name.
• Spanner database is pretty cool
• Distributed SQL database
• New feature: 100% compatible Postgres interface
• Camping and shooting guns
• Reminiscing about Calvinist Cadets
• Digitizing slides
• Dust is not your friend
• The dynamic range of film is still impressive
• Still not going to back to film though
• Kodachrome was noticeably better with the older pictures
• The project brought back some good memories
• Ebay fees
• They charge seller fee on tax????
• Who would do that aside from Michigan where you pay tax on tax at the gas pump
• Performance testing
• is more than just load testing, really it is.

Next week:  Re-introduction to SOLID

Code & Coffee - 10/8/2021

 

• Camera background stuff
• What's in your background
• How much do you just let anything go or carefully compose the background
• Facebook went down a little
• Rumors... 
• Apparently they stopped advertising part of their network on BGP
• I don't use Facebook often but when I do it is down
• Re-org
• Is a lot of trading one set of problems for another
• Remote/Onsite hybrid working
• Remote vs on-site ratios
• Differences in how personal connections are created and maintained
• Buying and selling cars can be fun
• Bruce told about a video where a guy put a for sale sign on a car and waited for the real owner to show up and nearly ended up buying it from the owner
• We recounted more interesting car sale stories
• Odd git behavior
• comes from odd devs
• pr wants to merge 39482393 commits from develop_future_dev_nextgen_evenbetterthistime to develop_future_nextgen
• No frameworks!!!!!
• Java manifest files are not fun
• Oh that one with the ejbs is ok, but only cause its old and not fun
• QOTD:  "They had the ultimate pimped out Jenkins instance"
• Same language on front end and back end??
• Well it worked so well for Java, lets try it with Javascript
• More discussion about this
• Understanding principals of software design
• Where is the experience and where does it come from
• Architecture is ..... delaying the decision
• NOT picking tools and toys
• The tech is the problem.... so let's switch the language, yeah that will work.
• No not really, you are in tradeoff land, just trading a set of known problems for a new set of unknown problems
• It is not always a bad idea, but you have to come up with the real reason.
• Happy birthday Dave S. enjoy the Oculus Quest and the virtual working.
• Talked about roller coasters and dinosaur parks and unexpected movement vs controlled movement and the queasy factor involved in each.
• It is hard to pick out a gift for tech people.
• Time to take out the trash!