CRUD, finally

It took a while, but my “CRUD, Only When You Can Afford It” article has finally been published. I’ve been working with Jon Tobey on my articles to make them more readable and more consistent. I can tell you, when he returned my first draft (the blog I wrote earlier) there were so many questions in it. My first thought was that I had to rewrite much of it and I thought of the amount of time I would have to spend. But, it’s a good thing. If he asks me how I get to a conclusion, tells me that two sentences are contradictory, asks for an example or even asks me how this fits with one of my other articles or someone else’s article, then I have to take those questions seriously. If my wife reads it, she’ll tell me where she lost me, if Jon reads it, he’ll tell me why.

Jon also helped me with “Dealing with Concurrency” and with the “Razorbills”, which I hope will be published shortly in the “Microsoft Architects JOURNAL Issue 4”.

For those who read my blog, I hope they like the article better.