Okay, yes, it’s a ‘domain aspect template’, but I used ‘D’ yesterday and today is for ‘E’, so ‘elements’ it is. Three years ago I drafted a domain template the first time, but what’s changed now that I’ve revisited my deity template? Let’s see… starting from the top, and understanding …
Time to look at an easy one: the template for describing a deity. This was actually one of my first topics last time I worked on Divine Trappings. I wonder what’s changed. Last time, I started with my Entity Template, and that’s a pretty good thing to start with. This …
Yesterday, I put up a list of all the posts from the 2021 A-Z Blog Challenge, for those interested in what came before. For those who want something a little simpler and quicker, here’s a summary. What I Think First, where I’m coming from, to explain why I’m doing this. …
Revisiting a topic I’ve written about previously gives me an opportunity to reread older posts. In this case, I’ve written a fair bit of material that’s worth revisiting. The posts from the 2021 A-Z blog challenge show a lot of my thinking, a fair bit of how I thought things …
In the 2021 A-Z Blog Challenge I took a run at Divine Trappings. Something of a follow up to Polyhedral Pantheons, Divine Trappings are descriptive elements that might be applied to a deity (and their associated religions) based on the domains assigned to that deity. I didn’t quite finish the …
My last post explored a few of my use cases and how they might work… and ended with a situation that puzzled me: how do I resolve the ‘original file name’ of a document file, when I have merged multiple copies of the same document (and file) from different sources? …
A recent post included some quick validation of a tentative design… and failed it! I argue this is a successful validation exercise: if the ‘first-best results’ prove a design or implementation is correct, ‘second-best results’ find a problem before it matters. Second-best results are just fine by me, they me …
My previous post, Quick Validation, concluded almost immediately the more abstract model I was considering is not suitable for my purpose here. You might be wondering why. In a relational database, referential integrity is a critical consideration. Normally a table may contain fields defined as ‘pointing at another table’. These …
My last post looked at some abstractions that might do good things for me, but as with any design decision (or even design think-hard-about) it’s a good idea to validate it. Even if it’s not possible to prove correct, it can at least be possible to determine it’s not a …
In my last post, regarding Operations, at one point I started to write “and everything can have Tags”… when I realized that can happen, but takes a little extra work. What if they could, though? Early in this series when I wrote about data modeling I recognized that many entities …
