My first anti-pattern is a pet peeve. In many cases, it is not necessarily terrible, but like any great code smell, seeing ANSI-89 joins tells me that there may be deeper issues involved. What do I mean by an ANSI-89 join? Prior to ANSI-92's specification of INNER, OUTER, and CROSS JOIN, SQL developers had a…
Ryan Dempster: The very best mediocre pitcher in history?
This article is kind of fun, and reminds how remarkable Ryan Dempster was at not being remarkable. It's really unfortunate that Dumpster caught on so well as his nickname.
Rating Rockstar #2: GTA San Andreas
Samuel L. Jackson is the bad guy. Set in LA in "the present", included RPG elements that worked really well and were sadly not repeated in GTA IV. First to include a lot of aircraft. Why it's here: The sheer size of the world, the RPG elements, the brilliant story... there is literally nothing this game…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 