Author name: awgibbs

Stored Procedure Management With Rails

awgibbs / November 26, 2009

Maintaining synchrony between application code and a database schema in a production system can prove a burdensome affair. As soon […]

awgibbs / September 6, 2009

I’m not supposed to be writing this essay right now. I’m supposed to be well into a three hour bike

awgibbs / September 5, 2009

“There’s no shortage of things on which I’m asking our R&D and acquisition folks to focus.” — Ashton Carter, September

awgibbs / August 7, 2009

Oh, the joys of getting to the gate at the airport 3.5 hours before your scheduled takeoff… $7.95 to use

awgibbs / August 4, 2009

Presently in the midst of taking the 50th annual two-week Human Factors Engineering short course offered by the University of Michigan, I

awgibbs / February 26, 2009

Brevity is the soul of wit, or so we’re told, though BP Oil wasn’t listening when crafting the user interface

awgibbs / August 1, 2008

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, I was a high school student. In hindsight, this involved many

awgibbs / July 29, 2008

Last week while sitting in a “tutorial” session at OSCON 2008 I had occasion to ponder the relationships between the

awgibbs / July 27, 2008

I ceased using Windows at home altogether a few years ago, ending up strictly on Linux after a period of