June 29th, 2008 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, Journalism
Been awhile since I wrote about Caspio, and since then they’ve only gained more media clients, which I suppose could be a lesson for me. But I think not. Rather, I hope what we’ll see in the months and years to come are the lessons that Matt Wynn offers from his experiences using Caspio. Here’s [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, General
I was all set to write a tract about why CAR folks should use revision control, but Rachel Greenham has done a fine guide to Subversion for Writers. The same applies to files produced in the CAR process, like SQL snippets and programming scripts. Do yourself a favor and use a revision control system. You’ll [...]
January 23rd, 2008 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, Teaching
Tomorrow marks the beginning of another semester of teaching CAR at George Washington University. It should have been last Thursday, but weather prevented me from getting back from New York in time. One of the issues that people who teach CAR have to deal with is which database manager to use. Most opt for MS [...]
December 7th, 2007 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, DIY
Update: a comment by James Glover from Dec. 8 got caught in my spam filter and I just found it today. It’s posted below.
So I did it. I signed up for the Caspio trial, despite the fact that I think the Terms of Service don’t allow me to do much with it. Anyway, onward! Ok, [...]
October 31st, 2007 | by Derek | published in Car Tools
As Adrian points out below, this might be more properly titled Data Normalization and CAR.
Like a lot of CAR folks, I got my start working with rows in tables. For a given story or project, you might need one database table or 20, but basically you “designed” the database - if you had that option [...]