It was the “Grand National” yesterday, so I bought a copy of the “Daily Mirror” for its tips and form card. It’s good to see that its instincts are coming back, the inside front page had a picture of a Tory poster which has the question “How much does it cost to clean a hospital?”, which had been defaced with the comment “You should know, you privatised hospital cleaning!”. …
Ready, Steady, Vote
A general election has been called for 5th May.
Consolidating Sybase
This is/was a short note on design options available when creating multi-tenancy solutions for Sybase hosted applications. It looks at server sprawl, multi-database and multi server patterns. It examines Sybase workspaces and Solaris name space partitioning tools. When designing system platforms for Sybase based applications, three patterns are available. …
Blogs, Ally or Adversary
There is a bit of storm about blogging going on at the moment. Tim Bray started it here, with a sharp manifesto for its goodness, but you may have missed Claire Giordano’s contribution, which apart from making the business argument, lists a bunch of links from both the blogosphere and more traditional media outlets and usefully checkpoints the debate. In summary, businesses that want to tell the truth, benefit from authentic knowledgeable spokespeople. …