Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Memorial Day

analysis
May 28, 20071 min

Here in Andover, Massachusetts, we have a Memorial Day parade featuring a bagpipe band, marching bands, veterans, Revolutionary and Civil War re-enactors, and scout troops. At the end of the parade, there's a service in the town's small park, at which one of the Girl Scouts always recites "In Flanders Fields." This is sometimes a comedy, when the poor girl forgets the poem, but is often quite movi

Here in Andover, Massachusetts, we have a Memorial Day parade featuring a bagpipe band, marching bands, veterans, Revolutionary and Civil War re-enactors, and scout troops. At the end of the parade, there’s a service in the town’s small park, at which one of the Girl Scouts always recites “In Flanders Fields.” This is sometimes a comedy, when the poor girl forgets the poem, but is often quite moving.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow…

Read “In Flanders Fields” and its background at the Arlington National Cemetery site.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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