Tootfinder

Another eclectic collection of books has been dropped off at the local “Little Free Library” with their “please don’t sell me” stamps and QR codes to the various books pages at https://Bookwyrm.social (Fedi GR alt) & @thestorygraph.com (Black owned GR alt) so that people can read about/review the books.

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

The Elephant In The Room
We have often highlighted in the pages of this magazine the seemingly never-ending sequence of fashion waves hitting the software industry. We have discussed in 2020 the one impacting type systems, and more recently, another one concerning object-oriented programming. What is important in both cases is not the details of the technologies per se, but the social mechanisms at play in both situations. In this edition, we will encounter yet another example of such a clash, this time concerning rela…