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Bear 1: "I need Agile. I need the one with big charts." Bear 2: "Oh God, I think I just had an aneurysm." Ahahahha! That was great. I honestly don't know a lot about development methodologies. I just like to make stuff. So no strong opinion. Funny! On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote: > On 1/8/2014 2:21 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> >> I lurk one of the postgresql dev lists and they are constantly making >> new commits and there always seem to be new features being added, most >> of which I haven't even started playing with. But I think I hear what >> you're saying. It's an older technology that's been pretty well >> explored and polished. Probably not much low hanging fruit. >> >> I haven't played with the NoSQL stuff yet. Probably because I find >> sql and it's super sets to be quite useful. One of you posted this a >> while back. Still cracks me up. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs > > > Or, try this abso-f2(*&$ng-lutely incredible commentary on one of the > currently-fashionable > methodologies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvks70PD0Rs > > or languages (and it's true that php developers never get groupies) ... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sygm9x9sBEo > > or trying to figure out the motives, background, IQ, or batshite attitudes > of OMG I WAS THERE! I KNOW THAT GUY! I KNOW A HUNDRED OF THOSE GUYS!!! THEY > WORK AT MOTHER BELL!!!! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OstpOap9KU&list=PL1FB3417C560AC0B7 > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OstpOap9KU&list=PL1FB3417C560AC0B7> (and, > yes, I almost soiled myself several times when listening to this). > > Bill, who is going back to the Scary Devil Monastery ... > > P.S. (With apologies to a certain BLU member who uses that method ...) > > >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:25 AM,<markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote: >>> >>> 'm not saying they are "dead" as in no one is using them, I'm more >>> thinking they are dead with regard to feature development. >>> >>> PostgreSQL and MySQL and the commercial databases just seem less >>> "important" these days with things like MongoDB and Cassandra. Don't get >>> me wrong, I think the NoSQL crowd are fairly delusional because >>> eventually >>> these NoSQL databases will all have SQL front ends and ACID >>> characteristics are vital to any real database. (but I digress) >>> >>> Traditional ACID SQL databases have more or less peaked. Data stores like >>> the NoSQL ilk are pretty much done feature wise as well. Stonebreaker's >>> next project is getting very little traction. >>> >>> Have databases become just another "word processor" like application >>> where >>> almost all the standard offerings are really good enough? I mean, jeez, >>> tomcat, apache, php, etc. are all jus good enough and there are no new >>> "must have" features as well. >>> >>> I guess the real question is what's left or are infrastructure components >>> pretty much done? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss at blu.org >>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> >> > > > -- > Bill Horne > William Warren Consulting > http://www.william-warren.com/ > 339-364-8487 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Eric Chadbourne 617.249.3377 http://theMnemeProject.org/ http://WebnerSolutions.com/
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