I’m going to have to take a moment and backpedal. I described the MySQL Sandcastle as an excellent construct for shared development against a large repository without stepping on the toes of fellow developers. In theory this is excellent, and in practice it’s proved rather useful especially where projects call for deviation of underlying structures
Developer sandboxes are crucial for quality software creation: a place to work in a locally destructive way, trying new avenues to problem solving at minimal risk. There are several different ways to put a sandbox together, but all essentially built around the concept of a scaled down copy of the target production environment. In the
I’ve written a lot about my health over the past few years, and my efforts to try and do something about it. Each little clue gave me new hope, into which I threw my full energy. I took every inch and reveled in it, moving as far as I could before inevitably declining once again
As most of you probably know by now, I have returned from Seattle Washington to Salt Lake City Utah. This move was brought about by the end of my employment with Amazon.com, which overall is a mixed blessing – I am with my family again, even if it does mean I’m back in the job
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