Just a grabbag of tools that I’ve designed and written at/for a company to solve a problem I consider this category one of my strongest points as a software engineer/sre engineer. These were all self-driven in that I found/identified the problem/need for a solution an designed and implemented a solution…
Databases
In the work world that I’ve lived in, at times my team had to install, manage, upgrade and operationally support some databases and caching tools but this post is more about my use of these databases as an author of tools rather than talking about how I operationally handled things….
Custom tools I’ve written
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I really like writing custom tools Don’t let this scare you. My philosophy (see My personal tech guiding principles) is to use the standard “store bought” stuff generally and to only write something custom as a last resort. This post concerns tools at my most recent…
A bit more about me
I’ve always been a tech-geek. In the 1980’s my brother started an unsuccessful software company that produced pre microsoft word/pre word-perfect word processing software for the commodore vic20 and I used his software in high school to do my schoolwork and fell in love with computers and technology At my…