by wp_sd | Feb 26, 2019 | Architecture, Design
When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he hated about contemporary architecture: wasteful, glass towers requiring tons of energy whose design had absolutely...
by wp_sd | Feb 21, 2019 | Design, Programming
Forty years ago, a Canadian bank pioneered a brand new computer system that allowed non-programmers to help write code. The paradigm was so disruptive that it was ignored by computer scientists for decades. But as web apps get increasingly complex, and web devs become...
by wp_sd | Jan 20, 2019 | Data Management, Database, Design, Mathematics, MySQL, Programming
Great chapter from the unmissable book by Peter Brawley and Arthur Fuller … http://www.artfulsoftware.com/ … Thank you boys! Most non-trivial data is hierarchical. Customers have orders, which have line items, which refer to products, which have prices....
by wp_sd | Jan 16, 2019 | Data Management, Database, Design, ETL, Mathematics
The problem of data transformation is solved in numerous ways with different levels of smartness and in different flavors. ETL (extract – transform – load) processes is a buzz word strongly related to this topic. Basically the requirement is to get a...
by wp_sd | Nov 14, 2018 | Creative, Design
Book review from http://ilovetypography.com/ It is hard not to simply gush about Paul Shaw’s Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story. For a life-student and consumer of design history and culture publications, it ticks so many boxes that...
by wp_sd | Oct 5, 2018 | Architecture, Design, Funny
In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house — looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think. >> Play Video
