Burning the Midnight Oil tonight…
I am working rather late tonight to get my system out to “production”. Well, not really production per se, but so that the owners of this company that are paying my bills may be happy. The entire team is slaving over this to be done by tomorrow morning so that “flashy lights” can be beheld by all tomorrow.
I am the Database Architect at this social networking company, which is numero uno in its niche. We’re using MySQL and PHP (no surprise there!) But the one cool thing is that I am using Ruby to do the data migration from the current poorly-written schema to the new one entirely of my design — powerful, robust, and delicious! Ruby is hellishly powerful and it’s expressive character is great for the job of migrating the data.
I am also writing an ER tool in Ruby as well, but that’s going to take a bit longer to complete. I want it to have the power of ER/Studio, but with support for MySQL that ER/Studio is rather weak on. I will also make this an OpenSource product, which will be very disruptive — lowering the bar for ER tools (ER/Studio costs nearly $5000 per seat) — and to boot others can write modules to support other databases, like Postgres, Oracle, MS SQL, and the like!
Oh well, for now — and I freely admit it — it’s vaporware. But percolating around in my brain, and must come out!!!
I have many things percolating around in the noggin that must escape into reality, and it will happen! Trust me on this!
Well, speaking of brains, mine is fried good, so time to lay it to rest.
