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The Pros and Cons of a Single Subscription Model
Is One Subscription Just Like Any Other?In discussions about the concept of subscriptions, I sometimes hear the suggestion that Advantage address market segments other than publishing and content … -
AdvantageCS Closing Out A Software Bug
Waging war against software bugs can take a toll. This Advantage engineer depicts the aftermath of one such battle.… I hobbled into my office. One leg dragging slightly like a long breath on a … -
Yesterday's Needs Today
In preparation for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece built over 20 new facilities to host the various events. The cost to construct these facilities climbed into the billions of Euros. … -
Dan's Blog: Important vs Urgent: Finding the Balance
I will assume that a good number of the readers of this blog are parents, and that you will be painfully familiar with the “work/parenting” balance we strive for in life, which at times seems so … -
The Best of “Both-and” Worlds
How the AdvantageCS Development Team Optimizes Contrasting StylesI am, by temperament, indecisive. Wishy-washy. Equivocating. I embrace both-and-ism rather than either-or-ism. It gets me in trouble … -
Staying Out of (Technical) Debt
A topic that you might hear software engineers discussing from time to time is technical debt. From the name, you can already guess it is something undesirable. To hear the developers talk, any …