New Blog Round-Up

I've spotted a few useful posts lately and a few friends have started blogging so I thought I'd draw people's attention to them.

Neil Chandler is a UKOUG regular as well as a central and well-loved member of the informal London Oracle drinking massive (well, that's what I'll say about him in public anyway ). He's an Oracle DBA and a contractor like myself so hopefully he can add a few interesting technical tales and gotchas as he encounters them. He's only just started blogging but hopefully if I draw attention to his blog, it will kick-start him past that critical start-up phase.

I'm researching SQL Plan Management for a client at the moment and whilst trawling the net for any useful resources, Maxym Kharchenko's Intermediate SQL kept cropping up. He has a number of posts about SPM that delve into the nuts and bolts and have proved really useful to me. It looks like there's other good stuff on there too.

But, with apologies to Neil and Maxym, I saved the best for last even thought it's absolutely nothing to do with Oracle. Over the past couple of years, I've been fortunate to work with some very smart, young and occasionally handsome people but that's more true of some than others One that it's been a pleasure to meet but is going to be lost to me all too soon is Gustav Andersson who, as well as being a top-notch Java guy (confirmed by other Java guys) has stuffed my head full of Agile/Scrum nonsense and been a good boss in recent times. (There's a lesson in there for managers everywhere - old guys can work perfectly well with much younger managers as long as they respect them!) But there's more to Gustav than that - a lot more - and, in retrospect, I realise I shouldn't have been surprised that he's about to embark on a magnificent venture. He will be blogging about it at The Modern Nomad and as soon as I read the first couple of posts I was as jealous of him as usual. You'll see what I mean when you read it. It's personal and far from light but it's so refreshing to read something completely different and nothing to do with Oracle.

The posts are currently just slightly in the past while he plays catch-up and he was reluctant for too much early publicity. As usual, there's plenty for me to jealous of there - a better template, better grammar, more substantial thoughts expressed more clearly and all from a Swede teaching me to write English. Actually, damn that guy. I'm glad he's on his way so he can stop the rest of us looking bad His blog is going to be great.

Good travels, man ...