August 2009 - Posts

• playing "Let's Pretend" with SSN data

  The trouble with surrogate nulls (storing real data and pretending that it represents missing data) is that you never know when the real data is going to be interpreted as real data. Here’s a twist on the surrogate null issue: a case of shorter SSN numbers Read More... Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:33 AM by Paul Nielsen | 1 Comments Filed under: surrogate nulls

• UI Design Mock-ups made easy

  As I ramp up my new software company, one critical need I have is to communicate my UI ideas to clients and .Net programmers. I’ve used Excel and Visio for the task and wasn’t very satisfied with either. I figure that most of my blog’s readers are also Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 6:56 PM by Paul Nielsen | 7 Comments

• SQL.alt

  Here's an interesting post analyzing several no-sql options from a developer POV. http://bjclark.me/2009/08/04/nosql-if-only-it-was-that-easy/ Read More... Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 9:05 AM by Paul Nielsen | 0 Comments