Max De Marzi

Jim Morrison died in 1971, I wasn’t even alive then. I didn’t learn about The Doors until the Val Kilmer film from the 90s. I was still too young to really understand them but I became a fan of the music nonetheless. In the last few months I’ve learned more about doors. I learned about this concept of one way and two way doors. The idea being that one way doors can only be broken through once, but if you don’t love the decision you made you can walk through the door two times and be back to where you started.

When I was a new Java developer I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night hyperventilating and covered in sweat. Usually from a nightmare about Maven and fighting with pom.xml. We dream of Software, but does Software dream? I don’t know, but I hope when Maven goes to sleep at night, it wakes up screaming thinking about CMake and CMakeLists.txt… I know I do.

Rather I should say, “I did”, because I went looking for help on youtube and ran into a template for C++ projects by Jason Turner which made the nightmares stop. We’ll start our new project by blindly copying that into our repository and removing a few GUI related things we won’t be using. Watch the video for all the details, I only understood half of it, but it was enough. There I learned about Conan.

I could not decide if I wanted a Rhinoceros or Cthulhu as a mascot for this new project, so I went with both. The image you see above is what I ended up with. It’s absolutely outrageous and fits perfectly with our theme. That was going to be the name by the way “Outrageous DB” but it was kind of long, so I went with “Rage DB” instead. Right about now you may be thinking, wait, what are we doing, what is this new project? What is going on?

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