Oleg Sych

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for working with text. Unfortunately, like most powerful tools, it is also complex and difficult to learn. In business application development, I find myself having to use regular expressions only once every couple of month, which gives me enough time to forget how to write them. That’s where the […]

Today I am adding a new book to my shelf. It is Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott Ambler and Pramod Sadalage. This book extends the concept of refactoring to relational databases. Large enterprise databases are often accessed by multiple applications developed by different teams at different times and updated on different schedules. These […]