Tom’s Abbreviated Kindergarten Rules for Social Networking
Robert Fulghum in his book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, relates the challenges and realities of everyday life to some of the basic rules we learned in kindergarten. I’ve seen...
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A Data Geek’s Holiday Gift List
Well, the holiday season is upon us. For most of us, December is a time for celebration. Whether it is Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, or other secular holidays, our days include excess eating, office...
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It only takes 10 minutes of your time
I’ve been blogging about my experience in the data community for about the past six months. It’s actually been a pretty enjoyable experience. I have always considered myself a techie guy over the...
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Can you teach an old dog…?
My dog Bosley is almost 10 years old. For this past decade I’ve tried to teach Bosley how to fetch and return a ball or Frisbee. He just has no interest in playing fetch. He will go retrieve the ball...
View ArticleStaying relevant through social networking
Facebook membership now exceeds 500,000,000 members with the average person having 130 friends. (Source: Facebook) 1,000,000 people join LinkedIn in a typical week with the community boasting over...
View ArticleThe Mobile Data Modeler’s Christmas Wishlist
Technology marches on. In November I attended CA World. Among the most prominent areas of focus was virtualization, cloud computing and IT management via the cloud. The emergence of tablet and mobile...
View Article7 reasons data modelers need to be social networkers
Social networking has become a force not to be taken lightly. It has grown well beyond sharing photos with friends and family on Facebook. As data professionals, we are personally seeing how the...
View ArticleIs Microsoft Visio a data modeling tool?
Recently I was asked why I use ERwin to create a data model rather than Microsoft Visio. The person had heard that Visio could create Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD). He was really asking, “Why...
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