You’ve heard of Test Driven Development and Feature Driven Development, maybe even Behavior Driven Development. But have you heard of Configuration Driven Development? Perhaps not, read on! [Read More]

Introduction A while back at my job, we needed a solution for splicing together multiple databases seamlessly, with the database user being blissfully unaware this is happening. The discussion of how and why we were doing this are out of scope for this post. Rather, I’ll discuss one subproblem which... [Read More]

Edited 11/07/2020 for updated advice and to belatedly address discussions in this reddit post [Read More]

SWon Software Until now, I had a stand-in for a blog name following the ever-funny joke template: Bloggy McBlogface. Now I’m unveiling my new blog name: SWon Software, or Swon Soft for short. As in, Stuart Wheaton on Software. It’s pronounced like “swan”, hence the logo. [Read More]

Mortgage Decision Woes I bought my house almost 2 years ago now, and one of the big lessons I learned is that there’s always another lesson to be learned. Totally , but it’s true. I first smacked into this once we finally chose a house and had our offer accepted.... [Read More]