February 2006 Blog Posts
Just wanted to make a quick announcement that I'll be starting a new position on Monday working for Pets Marketing in Canton, OH. They are owned by the hartville group and are involved with pet insurance which is something that is pretty big in Europe and Japan and on the rise here in the United States. This is a really good opportunity for me to get into a relatively young and growing company and hopefully make a solid impact.
The shop is running with the latest and greatest- .net 2.0 and SQL 2005. The culture is solid and the upper management seems...
I was meeting with a group of developers the other day and the topic, which I will not go into detail about came up about using a transactional database structure for some data that required a history versus the typical method of keeping current records in one table and on any change writing to a history table. I've seen some transactional based structures in other projects before and I was slightly surprised that more than half the people in the meeting had never seen one before. This can mean only one thing: it's blog time!
Disclaimer: While I have a bit...
I don't normally post links, but this article is great.
http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/3573356
So, I see that Delphi is for sale. I'm actually not all that surprised since there are free alternative IDEs popping up everywhere, the most notable of which is Eclipse. The IDE and tools market seems to be losing margins rapidly as free components and tool sets compete with traditional corporate offerings.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I often note that the Open Source community seems to play catch up to the for profit offerings. Open Office for example has been chasing Microsoft Office for years and each time it starts to catch up Microsoft has to...
Culture is king. Think about that for a moment. Think back on all the jobs you've ever worked, successes and failures. When it all boils down to it, a strong culture is probably the most influential factor in the success or failure of an organization.
Case in point: If you've been paying any attention at all to the business news lately, you'll see that Ford and GM are scrambling to remain competitive after taking some serious losses in the midst of one of the biggest economic booms we've had in a while. Why do you suppose this is? The truth is...