Double, double…
Been a while since I’ve pointed to his blog - but this one is one that resonated with me.
I related to it for this reason: when people describe what problems they are facing in technology - they very often assume the person they are describing it to have the same background, nomenclature, experiences. What they forget is we don’t work with them, we don’t share the same jargon and most importantly - we haven’t been staring at the problem like they have for the last 5 days - it is all new to us. And therefore, we need lots of detail.
For me, this manifests itself in a question like this: I have this/these table(s). I need a report that looks like this: …. This query is failing. Please correct it.
It won’t matter how loud or long they say "Please correct it", it won’t happen - we don’t know what the question is yet!
Double, double - indeed.
It’s a holiday weekend in England and that means our local shopping centre is hosting yet another collector’s fair. Unlike the others there will not be a Dalek, Wookie, Blake’s-7 cast member in sight, and probably none of those autograph hunters that actually look like Vogons, Klingons or extras from the Lord of the Rings. [...]
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I saw on the news today that 1 in 3 peeple in England have problems with spelling. One of the commentators sujested we shud follow Portugal’s egsample, who have resently proposed changes to simplify and consolidate Portuguese.
I think a revamp of the English langwage is well overdue. Silent letters and multiple [...]
LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
This ain’t no Flickr! Every blogger needs a place to host screen shots. Flickr is the best place for photos (IMHO) but they ask that all the images you post be photos (not that they’re rabid about that). But now there’s SCRNSHOTS.com. Unlimited screen shot uploads. You can tag them for easy searching. The photo b
Been long time since i posted something the reason being have started in new directions ……working with OIM , OID & stuff these days .
So will be writing a post to install/config OIM in next couple of days & will keep on posting regularly on the topic.
I’m attending WebVisions here in Portland Thursday and Friday. Good stuff so far, and very different than those mega-conferences I’m used to at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Rather than let you pine for content, here’s a taste of something new. Some of you may know that I made a guest apperance on Web Worker Daily [...]