Notes from the Tooting Bec Underground
xkcd comic.
posted by APC at 7:14 am
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I'm a freelance Oracle practitioner, specializing in database design and development.
I studied history at university but didn't want to stay in academia. After my finals I read "Neuromancer" by William Gibson and decided to try computing. Those were the days when a history graduate with no relevant experience could get a job in IT. Luckily, I had an aptitude. At school, one teacher had repeatedly told my class that history was a training in the gathering, analysis and presentation of data; we scoffed but he was right. Also I enjoyed programming COBOL. It was like being paid to solve crossword puzzles all day.
Since 1992 I have worked on Oracle database systems. Over that time I have worked as a data modeller, designer, developer and DBA. I have also undertaken assignments as a business analyst and a technical architect. If pushed, I would have to say I'm happiest writing PL/SQL programs. I am least happy when attempting to marry a normalised data model to the needs of an ORM tool.
I was made an Oracle ACE programme in 2003 . In the same year I won the Oracle Magazine OTN Contributor of the Year award.
Also known as Arfur C.
2 Comments:
Oh how cartoons reflect life ... thats too close to the bone. My wife would frame and stick it on my office wall.
Tim
There was a New Yorker cartoon I once cut out for my wife. It showed a woman pointing a revolver in the classic NYPD style and saying to her seated male partner, "step away from the laptop and hold up your end of the conversation."
Cheers, APC
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