https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/programming/ Recent content in Programming on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:22:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/digital-tech-trek-digest-3-2024-01-17/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:22:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/digital-tech-trek-digest-3-2024-01-17/ Lessons from going freemium: a decision that broke our business As an entrepreneur always considering how to produce a sustaining passive revenue, what licensing model to use, and how to acquire and retain customers, the allure of a freemium model is ever present in so many offerings. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-to-using-dash-as-a-delimiter-2021-11-22/ Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:47:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-to-using-dash-as-a-delimiter-2021-11-22/ Spaces or tabs. Using 2 spaces verses 4 spaces. Defining variables as lowercase v InitCap, environment variables UPPERCASE or not, using underscore ‘_’ or dash ‘-‘ as a separator. These are all un-winnable discussions among your friends and colleagues. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/loops-in-shell-scripting-2015-03-19/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:21:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/loops-in-shell-scripting-2015-03-19/ If you are die hard Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) scripter, it can be a challenge not to be enticed by the syntax niceties of the Born Again Borne Shell (/bin/bash). One example is the `{. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-testing-2015-03-11/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:08:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-testing-2015-03-11/ In software development this is a simple question. What is [the purpose of] testing? If asked to give a one sentence answer what would you say? I have asked this simple question of attendees at many presentations, and also to software developers I have worked with or consulted to.