A study was published in the Economist stating that people modify their behavior based on what they observe in their environment. Specifically, observing rule breaking increases the likelihood that the observers will also break the rules. The study tested this in multiple ways – one test left an envelope with clearly visible money [...]
Entries from November 25th, 2008
Open Source Fanatics
November 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Computing
Open Source still has that element to it that makes corporations and enterprises be leery toward it. Open Source companies have worked very hard to combat this attitude – painting it as a better alternative for a myriad of reasons. But the truth is that the fanatics that scare the business do exist. [...]
Convert Excel tabs to CSV
November 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Mac
I recently had the need to build data for a client in an Excel spreadsheet. Each tab in the spreadsheet had information that was easily editable by business staff. But the data in each tab had to eventually be processed by a Ruby script for manipulation and eventual insertion into a database.
I’m working on [...]
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Functional Business Programming
November 11th, 2008 · View Comments · Computing
There’s a lot of buzz around F#, an experimental, functional programming language from Microsoft. That buzz extends to C#. The current iteration (3.0) has some functional programming support and the next iteration (4.0) will extend that further.
I don’t see it. I’ve worked with a lot of programming teams. I’ve done Prolog [...]
