Agile

Unleash Your “cognitive surplus”

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A recent meme - cognitive surplus - has risen that describes the resources that have been brought to bare to accomplish a useful task once people get tired of wasting their time. The discussion started with a talk that shows how people have so much free time to work on improving the Wikipedia (the estimate […]

Automating Lunch

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

From Wikipedia:
Automation (ancient Greek: = self dictated), roboticization[1] or industrial automation or numerical control is the use of control systems such as computers to control industrial machinery and processes, replacing human operators.
We are talking about handing off some of the chores that humans used to handle in favor of those same tasks being handled by […]

Agile Provisioning

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

This is the first in a series of posts that will present how production database systems (and dependent systems) can be changed over time without breaking clients that access the database, and how to communicate these changes to the interested parties. While database professionals can easily see how change is required in the schema […]

Adapt or Delay

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Every technology project to be undertaken should be viewed in the context of existing functionality. For instance, if the goal is to create an enterprise-wide definition of a “Gold Build” for Oracle 10.2.0.3, you would obviously be wise to change the 5% that needs to be changed from the 10.2.0.1 “Gold Build”. Indeed […]