Six Steps to Effective RAD

March 9th, 2007 Comments Off

I’m sure that this topic will be irrelevant to most people. Usually, when your organization needs you to develop a new application they say to take as long as you want. Rarely do we actually have timelines or due dates. But I guess there might be one or two people out there who need to [...]

Consistent Reads and Multiversioning

March 8th, 2007 § 2 Responses

Came up with this demo for a class last week and I think that it’s useful. The demo illustrates one of the most important foundational concepts in an Oracle database: how Oracle provides isolation and consistency. For my favorite technical illustration of undo and redo check out slide #22 of the Redo Internals presentation on [...]

Life Requires a Sense of Humor

March 3rd, 2007 Comments Off

Aris, my roommate, just now left for work. He’s working a full day even though it’s a Saturday. He just reminded me that this is another reason he’s not paid enough… Here’s a snippet of the conversation we had right before he walked out the door: Jeremy: Why are you renaming your windows domain? That’s [...]