Like the picture? It’s not really relevant to anything contained in the following post except that it is an excellent visual aid for describing my professional life of late. “To leave whatever you’re doing, you have to change your course.” Yep, that about sums it up.
Let it never be said that I can’t be motivated [...]

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Those familiar with my personality (the real-life, much more interesting one) know that I am given to spontaneous speechifying on frequent, mostly inappropriate occasions. As a result, they rarely encourage me to share one of my not-so-humble opinions or to grace them with my pithy, Gibran-esque observations on the nature of the human condition, et [...]

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As you may have noticed if you paid attention to our recent new releases, DataDirect XQuery now fully supports MySQL(R).That means that finally MySQL users have access to a standard way (XQuery) to get access to their data as XML. To see how all this works, and how MySQL users can take advantage of this [...]

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