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Heaven has one hell of a baseball team

It’s hard to believe that, not so long ago, blacks were forbidden from playing Major League Baseball. For a person like myself, born in 1970 and never experiencing the true meaning of segregation, it’s hard to comprehend. Alas, it’s true. One can be disappointed by this tarnished past, or be proud of how we, as [...]

Posted 13 January 2009 § Personal ‡ Comments (2)

All-Star Game 2008

OK, it was about a week ago, but it was an experience I’ll remember for the rest of my life.

Posted 22 July 2008 § Personal ‡ Comments (1)

Operator overloading your domain model with interfaces and base classes

One of the challenges in rewriting my online baseball game is dealing with enormous amounts of data that needs to be stored as aggregates, and coming up with a domain model and data mapping pattern that works. In this blog post, I’ll outline how I addressed some of those issues.

The Data Model
Baseball is very much [...]

Posted 20 February 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (4)

Lost in (Google) translation

For the past few days, I’ve been working on importing raw play-by-play data for Japanese baseball. Once the import scripts and queries were written, I needed a way to audit the results. To do that, I needed a source for up-to-date statistics on Japanese baseball players.
Yahoo! provides a rather robust web site for the Nippon [...]

Posted 14 May 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)