Planning notes 

Intead of writing another technical post (as I often do), I feel that writing something more lyrical and closer to our business is important. This is particularly the case because I keep writing these programming articles (in Russian, of all languages!) that only get seen by about ~1000 people at most, and get only one day exposure each – though admittedly, it might seem like I’m flooding the scene with far too much information that’s a bit difficult to digest.

Here are a few themes I want to touch on – they are still technical, mind you, but there won’t be any code shown.

Oracle is one RDBMS that I can’t ignore, nor can I abide having no experience in working with it. Although I’m still fairly loyal to .Net (save for a few brief forays on the C++ side), I feel that I need to leverage my skills with this DB somewhat, at least to the point where I can build a simple CRUD-oriented system using some ORM. I certainly don’t have time to become an Oracle expert, but then again, the beauty is that I don’t have to.

FPGAs are coming to mind again after I looked at the list of Microsoft Research projects. It’s a poorly-kept secret, but given the fact that FPGAs are fundamentally better than good old CPUs for parallelization, it’s bizarre that we don’t yet have PCI computation cards stuffed full of them and programmable with something similar to .Net Micro Framework. Of course, I imagine Intel would not want this, because computing systems will suddenly become scalable and it would be a lot harder to sell motherboards and other unnecessary crap. Too bad.

Test rig… yep, we’re definitely getting one. I don’t know the specifics yet – it could be something driven by HyperV, or just a fast machine with lots of power for running VMs. Honestly, I don’t know, the only thing I know is that some projects require a superfast unroll and there’s no practical way of setting it up locally. That and the fact that sometimes you do need several machines to verify that something is working – this concerns WCF, MSMQ and anything else that travels over the wire.

Java strategy. Having left Java development years ago, I have no real strategy for Java, making the assumption that I’ll be able to stick to .Net. On the other hand, not being one to pass up opportunity, I think there might be scope for Java. I just don’t know when.

Assistant!!! Yep, I’ll be hiring one – it’s not a priority yet, but I need someone to do passive R&D around the tech I work with, and I’m generally prepared to pay a reasonable wage for any know-how generated during this – particularly if this converts to something meaningful in the long run. Plus, there’s lots of administrative nonsense to take care of that doesn’t even relate to tech: things like procurement, accounting and general bureaucracy duties that I for one am really tired of.

Опубликовано 5 февраля 2010 г. 17:08 в Dmitri Nesteruk's Blog

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