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Doug, I got the problem with my presentation sorted out. Here’s the story … 🙂 ‘Readers will recall that I had a bit of trouble with my presentation on Tuesday. I got to the room in good time, set the laptop up correctly, so it was displaying on the screen, then walked out of the… Continue reading Collaborate ’06 – Presentation Update II – by Peter Robson

Back to some semblance of normality, able to attend several presentations without being preoccupied with having to do the same. Attended an interesting talk on rule based applications in SQL. Some food for thought here, but once again the slides were stuffed full of text, and code text at that. It’s complex, and no way… Continue reading Collaborate ’06 – Day 3 – by Peter Robson

I was deliberately low key over reporting my own presentation on Tuesday. The truth is, there was a bit of trouble, which I’m still trying to sort out. I think things are under control, but it will take another day or so before the full story can be told.

Whilst partaking of a pre-dinner aperitif with a lady who speaks Geordie, always leave the establishment a couple of paces behind her in case you need to pick up the bill she’s running away from. If the Chinese restaurant menu contains several ‘lung’ options, you may have picked up the one for the grown-ups by… Continue reading Advice for Gentlemen

People in our industry like to talk about ‘Real-world Systems’ or sometimes say, of course in the real world. Yeah, right. If computer systems were the real world, they would have to visit a bank on three seperate occasions just to get some old statement reprints; have to spend a couple of hundred quid on… Continue reading Real-world Systems

[doug] This is Peter’s posting from day 2. However, because he had a presentation of his own to do, he didn’t get a chance to attend so many presentations (try it for yourself some time, you’ll see what I mean). He’s also, in typically modest Peter style, completely neglected to mention his own presentation, which… Continue reading Collaborate ’06 – Day 2 – by Peter Robson

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My thanks to Peter for sending this through. Hopefully he’ll keep up the good work throughout the conference, but he’s unlikely to keep up with Mark Rittman’s dedicated blogging 😉 (Peter, it’s a war – you have to report back in the middle of the night!) —————————– Yes, hot, humid, affluent, excessive. The Gaylord is… Continue reading Collaborate ’06 – Day 1 – by Peter Robson

I’ve stolen both the link and the blog title from Daniel Fink. As an ex-Sun employee with colleagues still working there, he has a personal interest, but I have a huge soft spot for Sun, too, both in general industry terms and the fact that I enjoyed my contract there so much. http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/24/technology/business2_sun/

The more observant among you will have noticed that Derek Jr. has taken temporary leave, to be replaced by my ugly mug again. It must mean that there’s a conference coming up. I’ll be presenting the Parallel Execution Slaves paper at the UKOUG Northern Server Technology Day this Thursday. I might change one or two… Continue reading UKOUG Northern Server Technology Day