Modeling Information: Part 1 - The programmer’s trick

Sunday, December 28th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

My latest project at work has lead me down an unexpected road of wrapping my head around modeling information from a very high level.  It’s made me realize a lot of my own past mistakes of overlooking the obvious.  As a self-taught programmer, I’ve picked up some very fundamental bad habits.  Since I’m a programmer, I’m going to start there with a simple concrete problem.  Through the next parts in this series, we’ll hopefully work our way toward an ultimate generic model for information.

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