{"id":1261,"date":"2007-04-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2007-04-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T12:00:00","slug":"not-quite-leaving-pythian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/not-quite-leaving-pythian\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite Leaving Pythian"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I decided to stop working with Pythian<\/a>, I was particularly disappointed about a couple of things. <\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned missing the friends I’ve made already, but I was also disappointed that I would have to abandon the ‘Dirty Dozen’<\/a> blog series. Although they’d proved more difficult to write than I expected, I don’t like not meeting my commitments. I’d suggested to Paul Vallee that maybe I could continue them.<\/p>\n

I obviously planted a seed in his head and, on my last full day, we discussed continuing our working relationship and I was really chuffed when we decided to carry on on a part-time, occasional basis. As far as I’m concerned I am a one-man (at this stage) consulting business so I want to be able to work for multiple clients when the work is interesting.<\/p>\n

We’ll define my continued involvement as we go, but the blog series will definitely continue and one is already in the pipeline. I think I might also be able to contribute to process definition, documentation and consulting on working methods in a rapidly expanding company, because those are strengths of mine (i.e. I’m the old curmudgeon! Well, maybe that word’s a little strong 😉) I hope there’ll be occasional technical work too but Pythian already have particularly strong technical resources among the full-time DBAs.<\/p>\n

In the future I might work more or less for Pythian depending on their needs and my own but I can say that I’m delighted that it doesn’t end there for now.<\/p>\n

Oh, and rest assured, one of the nice things about working with Pythian is that I can, as always, say whatever I want to say without fear of being reigned-in by corporate needs!<\/p>\n

A result, some might say 😉<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I decided to stop working with Pythian, I was particularly disappointed about a couple of things. I’ve mentioned missing the friends I’ve made already, but I was also disappointed that I would have to abandon the ‘Dirty Dozen’ blog series. Although they’d proved more difficult to write than I expected, I don’t like not… Continue reading Not Quite Leaving Pythian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1242,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/03\/leaving-pythian\/","url_meta":{"origin":1261,"position":0},"title":"Leaving Pythian","date":"April 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I've decided to leave Pythian. 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