What had started as a simple invitation of a friend to play video games turned out to be a “Business Tour” and a very interesting interview with the Chief Designer and Workflow Manager of Alebrije Estudios in Monterrey, Mexico. 

As a Sun Microsystems alumn, I feel compelled to offer an opinion on the upcoming purchase by Oracle, in particular about the future of MySQL.

Get a bunch of techies together and you can easily start a war of words over any technology.  Each will claim his favorite technology as "the best."  But it is all pointless because they're just tools.

Most of us are used to creating web forms based on a hard-coded database schema and a hand-crafted HTML form that maps directly to this schema.  This works, but the form will always look the same and do the same forever.

This is my second posting and I want to talk about how we’ve implemented SCRUM at Nearsoft.