Jinn of Quality and Risk (2003-Jan-17)

Jinn?

According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.

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Projects

Travel, around the world. Sleep, less. Profit, more. Eat, deliciously. Find, a new home.

Bio?

Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant

2003-Jan-17

Nailing relational databases

The Fishbowl: a significant number of people who are using a Relational Database, shouldn't be. They shouldn't be for one of the following reasons:

They're not storing enough data.
They don't need to make arbitrary relational queries.
They don't need ACID transactions.

Extreme archaeology

NYT: the Braidwoods discovered some of the earliest known buildings and copper tools as well as the oldest known piece of cloth. They also helped transform archaeology from a field primarily devoted to providing museums with recognizable and intact artifacts to a discipline that studies the processes of change.

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