Helping you get your data where it needs to be
I read an article the other week talking about computer science students getting into trouble because they had "lifted" some code. I know that taking credit for someone else's work is wrong, but I have to admit that I lift code all the time. Why I steal code I do this for a couple of reasons. One is for consistency. If I am working in a … [Read more...]
Imagine you get on your system one morning, and it appears as if all of your customers are conspiring against you. Everyone seems to be sending you orders that you can't process for one reason or another. One customer is sending order files with made-up fields. Another is sending files that are not formatted correctly so you can't parse them. And … [Read more...]
I was reading an article the other day about checksums. I touched on why you may want to use checksums briefly in my book and thought I would go into a little more detail in this blog post. A checksum is a binary or hexadecimal number derived from the contents of a file. If you want more details about what they are and how to create them I will … [Read more...]