{"id":2913,"date":"2019-06-20T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2019-06-08T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T12:36:34","slug":"the-clipboard-and-the-pencil-and-the-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/06\/the-clipboard-and-the-pencil-and-the-database\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clipboard and the Pencil&#8230;and the Database"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before embarking on a new database, or any new system, learn what it is we want and need.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s create a database to track this,&#8221; said an eager and well-meaning person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But,&#8221; interjected another well-meaning person, &#8220;do we know what we need or want or anything?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My livelihood has been technology. Of course I will look to a technology to solve a problem. I, however, urge the use of time. Hence, I propose <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Longer than Necessary Law<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Before building a database or other system &#8220;to help us keep track of things,&#8221; use a pencil and a clipboard to keep track of such things for a period of time that seems longer than necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That period of time may be three months, six months, or even a year. Long pause (I have heard such many times). Really folks. If we don&#8217;t work at this for a long while, we won&#8217;t really understand what we need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who knows, maybe we can save a lot of precious resources by moving slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Before embarking on a new database, or any new system, learn what it is we want and need. &#8220;Let&#8217;s create a database to track this,&#8221; said an eager and well-meaning person. &#8220;But,&#8221; interjected another well-meaning person, &#8220;do we know what we need or want or anything?&#8221; My livelihood has been technology. Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,235,35,292],"tags":[240,236,157,295],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-testing","category-time","category-tools","tag-analysis","tag-testing","tag-time","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}