It looks like there may be a problem with replies via email with the nu-sports.tssi.com site, I think I know how to fix it, so there may be a test message or two today.
Mike Nolan
This is a test reply via email
Gotta luv new software.
rsl
Yeah, but I’m used to it, been doing it my entire career.
Mike Nolan
You and me… both of us.
This year I started learning MailerLite, and I’m about to embark on learning Joomla.
WHEEEE
Go B1GCats
rsl
I had to learn some things about Joomla years ago, it was and still is baffling. I think it has improved since then (it would been hard to make it worse!), but fortunately that site (with the company I used to work for and still consult with) is winding down as they transition to newer software products. They’re using Drupal now, with a new programming team so I don’t have anything to do with it, thankfully. Drupal strikes me as being slightly less confusing to use. (But only slightly.)
Meanwhile, I"m working on learning Ruby with Rails, because that (plus javascript) is what Discourse uses. Fortunately for me, it uses PostgreSQL as its database platform, I’ve been using it for over 20 years.
Mike Nolan
It does appear to be missing the subject tags (e.g. [NU Sports List] [Northwestern Sports]) which are super handy for filtering.
-Cynthia
I pulled the subject tags because I thought they were cluttering things up, I can put them back.
Ah. There are other ways to filter now that the “from” is consistent, so I can adjust if people prefer the cleaner look. I just wasn’t sure if it was intentional or not.
-Cynthia
Mike,
I worked for Michael Stonebraker’s company Relational Technologies Inc in the late 80’s. We were selling a commercial version of the Ingres database that Stonebreaker and his friends developed at Berkeley. During that time the Bay Area was a hotbed for relational database technologies (Oracle, Sybase, Nonstop SQL, Informix, DB2). RTI probably had the best technology, but Oracle had the best salesforce and a “take no prisoners” CEO. Ellison left a lot of dead bodies in his wake, but Oracle ended up dominating the space and Ellison became one of the wealthiest people on the planet. He was also an early adopter of SQL and used that to beat up RTI.
One of my projects at RTI was shoehorning this beast of a database into PC’s running SCO Unix. That was only possible because around that time, PC’s got 32 bit architecture, a bigger address space, and 80M hard drives. Even then, it was pretty obvious to me that other collaborations like Sybase and Microsoft were going to yield more nimble PC-based products. So I left. Even Microsoft ended up buying Sybase out of their partnership in order to strip the product down to something that could run in a Windows environment.
RTI got bought by ASK a year after I left. Stonebraker had already returned to Berkely. Four years later ASK got bought by Computer Associates.
Stonebreaker started working on Postgres. In the Mid-90’s it became an open source project, but still hobbled some by its lack of SQL support. When that got resolved, PostgreSQL started to take off. In bit of irony, one of Stonebraker’s last projects at UC Berkeley before he left for MIT was a project called Mariposa. That was commercialized by Cohera. Peoplesoft bought them in 2001, and it 2004 Peoplesoft was acquired by (you guessed it) Oracle.
Jeff
Unless he’s moved on in the last few weeks (again), my older son currently works as a Site Reliability Engineer at YugaByte, which uses PostgreSQL as a front end to their custom back-end storage product.
I talked to him once about the possibility of using YugaByte with a database I set up some years ago, but it was way too small for YugaByte’s business model, only 200 GB. (!)
Mike Nolan