acme (email not shown publicly) http://www.astray.com/ Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
"Non relational databases" have seen quite a bit of interest recently. There was a NOSQL meeting in San Francisco last week and they have very kindly put some slides and videos up. I find it interesting but haven't got enough data yet...
A couple of years ago, I heard someone talk about the possibility of eliminating "perlmod" as an obsolete technology. Fortunately, he could be assured that there was no "perlmod" deployed in his organization, so his objective was achieved.
Similarly, very, very few people use relational databases. Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL are all examples of databases which people call relational, but are not. Just today I wrote an SQL query which, as is so common, returned many duplicate results, something which does
I Defy Them to Name Any Relational Databases :) (Score:2)
A couple of years ago, I heard someone talk about the possibility of eliminating "perlmod" as an obsolete technology. Fortunately, he could be assured that there was no "perlmod" deployed in his organization, so his objective was achieved.
Similarly, very, very few people use relational databases. Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL are all examples of databases which people call relational, but are not. Just today I wrote an SQL query which, as is so common, returned many duplicate results, something which does