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Network World: Database administrators in high demand

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Matt Zito was quoted in this week’s IT Careers and Training Alert by Jon Brodkin.
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Boring Jobs Dull the Mind (and Insight Failures)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Here is an interesting article:
BBC News: Dull jobs really do numb the mind
New research shows that people who are asked to perform repetitive tasks eventually go into “autopilot” mode in order to economize the work required to complete a task. I know this is true for me - ask me to create 20 databases and […]

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 […]

Celebrate 20 years of Perl at Perl Seminar NY

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

New York City is not necessarily known as a hotbed for OO perl development. Yet through various groups such as the NYC Perl Mongers and the Jim Keenan-led Perl Seminar NY, our Perl movement thrives and more importantly, really does function as a cohesive community. My guess is that it has something to do with […]

Oops - What Just Changed? Production Downtime Ensues.

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

There is a story circulating describing how the VA had a simple issue cascade into a full day of production downtime. We can learn from their failures! The initial problem turned out to be an improperly executed change in port numbers, but they wouldn’t determine that until much later. There was no visibility into […]

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