Neat trick on United Airlines
Thanks to everyone for a great PASS US – I had a lot of fun at the conference. Today, I am heading to Japan. My ticket is an economy ticket, and it is a long flight (around 12h). The price for a...
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Making the Best Use of PowerPoint Slides
This week, I presented at the InsightOut conference in Tokyo, Japan. The experience has been amazing. I met a lot of interesting people from different database platforms. I would like to share some...
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Improving Slide Layouts– A Case Study
Very soon, it is conference time again, at SQLBits. As our team is preparing for this big event, I took a hard look at the slides we are using and the design we apply. While you may argue that spending...
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Happy New Year Update – and OOF
Happy new year everyone. First of all, thanks for staying in touch and reading my site. According to Google Analytics, I have over 27K unique page hits and there is a steady traffic of over 50 hits/day...
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The Hollywood Business Model is Broken
Last week, I watched “The Avengers”. Very nice movie, recommended. Why then, do I feel the need to rant today and tell the movie industry where to stick their business model? Let me give you some...
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The Curse of Self-Service
These days, we seem to be high on data and data related trends. My opinion on Big Data should be well known to my readers: it is something that has to be carefully managed and largely a fad for all but...
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OT: Things Fashion Stores and Designers just don’t Get
I have just returned from a trip to Milan, my lovely wife traveling with me. And after a full weekend there, I feel like ranting again. For my trusted readers, if you expect something technical from...
View ArticleHow I Host on WordPress
Last week, I was asked how I run my new WordPress site. I thought it might be worth sharing my lessons learnt from the redesign. So here goes. Themes The theme I use is called Keilir. It is designed by...
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Window’s UTF-8 Support is a travesty
As you may have noticed, I have been creating standardised data feed of ISO data lately. In case you missed it, you can find the data here: http://kejser.org/resources/free-data/. While I was working...
View Article(English) Need a Quick Performance Fix?
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The End of History
To technologists like me, there is something very strange in the air these days. A perfect storm of trends are coming together to create the conditions for an odd new world. Very soon, economics as we...
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