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Moved my blog to octopress

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Its been about a month since my blog moved to octopress, wanted to write about my experience. I had been running my blog for a some time now using Movable Type upgrading as and when new versions where released. Over time I realized that upgrading was fraught with errors as lot of steps had to be done manually. Customizing the layout was risky as there was no way to preview your changes and commit only when I was comfortable. With the release of Movable Type 6 there is no longer a free version to download.

Workshop at Enterprise Data World 2010

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Doing a workshop on Agile Database Development at Enterprise Data World 2010 at SF. See you there.

Presentation on Database Refactoring

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

My Presentation on Database Refactoring at QCon was recorded and is live now on infoQ here

Japanese Version released"

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Japanese translation of Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Designhas been released, thanks to Yasuo Honda for the information. The Japanese version can be found here

Tool support for Database Refactoring

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’m always on the lookout for better tool support to do database refactoring. Just noticed that liquibase has come out with a IntelliJ plugin to support database refactoring.

This is really cool and hopefully one of long list of tools that will support database refactoring in the future. so enjoy

Podcast on Keeping Gray code Fit

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Me, Andy, Jeff and Marjorie discuss how to keep a long running project fit in this Podcast, also on iTunes. We discuss the management of technology, people, processes and tools on longer and more mature applications. Specific topics such as refactoring, knowledge management, innovation, staffing, production support and others are covered.

Cannot make it out to XP Day London

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

After a lot of frustration about my schedule, I have had to come to this conclusion, that I cannot physically make it to London, XP day.

I’m going to miss it. Nick Ashley is going to take up my spot and I know he will do a great job.

ThoughtWorks at Oracle Open World

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Thoughtworks is going to be at Oracle Open World. I’m excited about this especially since it will give ThoughtWorks and Me to talk about software practices and how to apply these software practices to the database development world, off course I will talk about my books Refactoring Databases and Continuous Database Integration. ThoughtWorks will have a booth at 343 Moscone South and I will be there on Nov 14.

ThoughtWorks Master class series in India

Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I will be presenting about Evolutionary Database Design and Database Refactoring at ThoughtWorks Master Class Series 2007 at Bangalore on May 19th and Pune on May 26. This will be the first time I will be presenting in India.

The Master Class Series is an annual seminar organized by ThoughtWorks India. It focuses on topics which are cutting edge, but the content of the seminars is drawn from real-life experiences on live projects. The presenters are all people with extensive hands-on experience and have delivered successful projects using the concepts they are talking about.

My Latest eBook is Out"

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

After finishing the first Refactoring Databases book. I started on a short ebook project, this book was going to tackle on a very specific technical topic mentioned in the first book. I wanted to write about all the specific scenarios and all the techniques I follow on the various projects.

The result of this effort was Recipes for Continuous Database Integration: Evolutionary Database Development, thanks to Martin Fowler for the title. This ebook laid out in a recipes kind of format provides various ways you can integrate you database into you development cycle and make evolutionary database development a fun thing to work with

Promoting Thoughtworks

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I have been working at Thoughtworks for 8 years now, its a fun place to work. Reason I’m blogging about this, ThoughtWorks is hiring in the US, UK, Australia, India, China and Canada. So go ahead send your resume to work@thoughtworks.com

Winning a award

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I received the good news. The book I co-authored with Scott Ambler won the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award in the Technical Books category. I was dumb enough not to attend the awards ceremony and receive the award, anyway when I started on the book project couple of years back I was afraid if the book would do justice to the Martin Fowler signature series, under which this book appears. The Jolt award award and all the comments I have received from many people in the last year, put me at easy, give me the feeling that finally I can relax and not worry about letting down Martin’s signature series.

Inactivity"

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I had been on vacation for sometime. Started back work and getting connected with work and life again.