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Development Done Right

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Matthias

In my projects, I’ve always been the one who took care of infrastructure, standardization and quality assurance from the development perspective. The funny thing is that I’m no admin and no QA guy, so most of it wasn’t even my … Continue reading →

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Professional Deployment and Operation of Web Applications

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Matthias

There are millions of web applications on the Internet that are under constant development. Paying software developers to work on bug fixes and new features is quite expensive already, but what’s often neglected is the cost for deployment and operation. … Continue reading →

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A Metadata Format For CSV Files

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Matthias

Using CSV files in batch processing applications has many advantages, most prominently interoperability between programming languages and tools. One of its weaker points is data integrity though. The format has no way to declare data types or additional metadata other … Continue reading →

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