ASE Cluster Edition Featured on Sun's Homepage
I just found out that ASE Cluster Edition is being featured on the sun.com homepage. Pretty sweet!
Here is a link to the featured story.
Cheers,
Dave
New PocketBuilder Demos
I am finally adapting my PocketBuilder Demo applications, so they can be included in the PocketBuilder DVD.
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TechWave 2008 Call for Papers Extended!
Due to popular demand we are extending the TechWave Call for Papers one extra week to Monday, March 31.
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Sybase at EclipseCon this week
Sybase is one of the silver sponsors for EclipseCon2008. Some of us will be at the sybase booth. Note that the exhibit hall pass is free
and you can sign up online. DTP and Sybase are going to be represented in various talks and tutorials. Please stop by if you've any
DTP/Sybase questions. You may also want to stay for one of the evenings as most of the evenings there is a party
sponsored by one of the companies. Stop by at the booth if you just want to find out which is the cool party ..)
Tutorials
- Implement Schema Editing Based on Delta DDL (Dafan Yang, Sybase)
- Data Applications in Eclipse: The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (Sheila Sholars, Loic Jullien, IBM; John Graham, Sybase)
- Enabling support for a new database or data source in Eclipse (Philippe Ombredanne, EasyEclipse/nexB)
Long Talks
- Introducing DTP Open Data Access Framework (Linda Chan, Actuate)
- Introducing the DTP SQL Query Builder (Brian Payton, IBM)
Short talks
- Creating Windows Mobile Database Applications with Eclipse (Jose Ramos, Sybase)
- Push for Usability of Data Tools Wizards (Brian Fitzpatrick, Sybase)
- DTP Help-Helper Plug-in (John Graham, Sybase)
TechWave 2008 Call for Papers... Now open
We are now accepting speaker proposals for the 60 and 90 sessions at the upcoming Sybase TechWave conference August 4 - 8th 2008.
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ASE Cluster Edition Released
On Tuesday, we announced the release of Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition (I will call it ASE CE going forward). See this link for the press release.
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Death by Meeting – Feels like we all go through this!!
This is probably relevant not only to IT folks, but also to all those poor souls who feel like a good part of their life is getting wasted attending meetings.
My x-boss recently recommended me this book "Death by Meeting” by Patrick Lencioni. I wouldn't say, yet, that it has immensely helped me as I haven’t put the recommendations into use but I can say it has changed my perspective, in a positive way, on meetings. Patrick provides an excellent take on meetings and how they are approached today and instead of framing it like any other “Help the manager” book, he weaves a story and tries to bring out the essence of his ideas using the story as the backdrop. One thing it does is it makes it a more interesting read compared to many other books that I’ve bought and lie in my “To be Read” pile.
Two main points regarding meetings that comes out of the book.
a) Create conflict in meetings and don’t try to use meetings just to get a consensus. Without conflict, it makes the meetings very boring as there is no drama involved. But I think care has to be taken not to make it overly dramatic. I think he calls this positive conflict and uses an analogy with movies where most of the successful movies have conflict, tension that make the viewers engrossed and feel like they are involved.
b) He recommends using different kinds of meetings to accomplish different things. In our organization we tend to distinguish different kinds of meetings but there is no structure to how we distinguish them. One thing to keep in mind is that this structure author recommends may not be applicable to all organizations, especially one like ours where developers have schedules and projects that they are working on and daily checkin meetings won’t be as meaningful.
- Daily checkin – Quick five minute meeting with quick updates from all team members.
- Weekly catch up – Quick round up and then focus on few agenda items, established based on earlier roundup, that are of higher priority for rest of time left in the 1/1.5hr scheduled time
- Monthly strategic – These meetings are where pre defined agenda exists and topics are discussed in detail to determine strategic direction. These meetings need to have a lot of exchange of ideas and not just be a monotonous capture of each person’s thoughts.
- Quarterly offsite – This helps managers to step away from office and discuss strategy, personnel, competition etc.
Hopefully I can start applying the principles in my meetings and will update on how it worked….
On your marks... Get Set... Go!
The PowerBuilder Team, including my collegues John Strano and Dave Fish are going to accelerate your developement in the first two months of 2008 by presenting an educational webcast series. They will be holding webcasts covering a range of topics from Windows Forms and Web Forms, to Smart Clients.
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Mobility Crystall Ball!
As we are gradually coming to the latter part of 2007, so I thought it was about time that I charged up and dusted down my mobility crystal ball!.
Here's what I believe will occur over the next year...
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