Archive for October, 2007
Troubles with ICT Tribbles
Exhibit One
October 2007
I am in an environment that uses a third party tool instead of sourcesafe that does not integrate with the IDE – fun, that.
Oracle stored procs – no dynamic SQL in the apps (double-bugger). However I am going use my discretion on that issue.
They have got a consultant in to review their system architecture and he is recommending the Oracle SOA with a communication layer — wait for it — consisting of the Oracle Enterprise Bus. This of course makes all database requests onto the bus asynchronous, which requires a radical rethink of the way we develop our apps. I’ve already made my position clear – ie I can live with Oracle (only just) but bus architecture – like, NO WAY!!! Horrible memories of Infor are flooding back!!! I am pushing hard for a standard client-server tiered archetecture – good old presentation layer, business-rules layer and data access layer (even if half the DA layer lives inside Oracle). I want the business-rules to be served up by IIS web services, and seeing as we are a .net shop, I can’t really see any compelling reason why not, esp as our apps only service Keystart people on an intranet. One other brilliant idea this consultant had is that the service layer should include Windows Services to handle long-running jobs like database bulk loads. The reason for this is that apparently Web services don’t like long running threads. The only long running jobs that exist here are database bulk loads of 6-8 Mb, which only take a long time because the load process has been badly-written and takes about 2 hours. If you use the ODAC bulk loader that amount of data should take about 10 secs max. My solution – write a winforms app. Should take me about half a day max. Write a Windows service and a named pipes/TCP sockets comms protocol and handle any concurrency issues? Half a month if I’m lucky. So much for consultants. You should read his report – 23 pages, the first 19 of which was Computing Science 101, the rest actually addressing the issues – (see above).
To add insult to injury I have to go on an Oracle SOA course in November. Can’t wait for that one!!!
Any vacancies down there???
Actually I shouldn’t complain. This is actually pretty much a greenfield site, so I should be able to get the powers-that-be to see things my way and do things thay way they should be done. They guy I work with I’ve known for years and he sees things my way as well, so hopefully it will all work out. Otherwise I will be looking around for SQL Server opportunities.
PS – This is not MY story – just a random story from the internet
CyberDewey
Posted by ts in Computing, Information, Reference, Semantic Web on 15 October 2007
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A Hotlist of Internet Sites organized using Dewey Decimal Classification codes.
000 Generalities |
500 Science |
100 Philosophy and Psychology |
600 Technology
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200 Religion
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700 Arts and Entertainment
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300 Social Science |
800 Literature
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400 Language
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900 Geography & History
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About CyberDewey
The Dewey Decimal Classification is comprised of 10 Classes (Generalities, Philosophy, Religion, Social Science, Language, Natural Science, Technology, Art, Literature, and History). Each class is further subdivided into ten Divisions, and each Division into ten Sections.
This page displays the one hundred Divisions, each of which is displayed on a subpage. The numbers in parentheses show the number of links in each Division.
Related Materials:
- My article Organizing Computer Resources tells the tortuous path I followed before discovering that Dewey is a robust, general-purpose way to organize just about anything.
- The Subject Index contains an alphabetical list of the terms used in the division headings.
- The FAQ contains pointers to other Dewey resources, some suggestions for using Dewey, and a status report.
Internet Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Mundie, David A. CyberDewey: A Catalogue for the World Wide Web / David A. Mundie Pittsburgh, PA : Polymath Systems 1995 1. Bibliography 011.3 dc-20 [MARC]
