Wishing you and yours a Merry and Happy Holiday Season! May you be healthy and prosperous in the New Year!
Warmest Wishes,
Nicholas A. Goodman
Founder - bayon technologies, inc.
For those paying attention (there are a few of you out there), you’ll notice that my blog (formerly nicholas goodman, consultant extraordinaire) has been folded into a new bayon blog.
bayon, my small boutique BI consulting firm, may invite other people to contribute to the world of Oracle, BI, Grid Computing, etc.
You may also have noticed that there has been a significant gap in time since my last post. The upside of my recent relocation from Boston, MA to Seattle, WA is that I’m in a beautiful new city with so many outdoor activities to chose from. The downside is, that for the past 6 weeks I’ve been surviving my projects, moving, etc.
Hope to get the observations flowing soon enough.
Not that I’ve done any application work on the platform in the last 2 years, but the application server / web site application framework ATG that was one of my former specialities is dying. ATG had some great features that were ahead of the curve in many respects including licensing the basis of JSP page compilation to SUN for inclusion in Java.
I had mixed feelings on ATG as a platform, seeing that it was not very open and took some time for Java programmers to translate fundamental concepts from other J2EE App Servers to ATG specific packages/functionality. However, as someone who is constantly endeavoring to bring immense amounts of business value with the least amount of complexity and custom code, ATG did rather well. They had a great set of JSP-esque tags that allowed for simple forms/tables/database access/table drawing/breaking results sets. It had some quick, rapid, and somewhat flexible ways to do about 85% of what most business wanted to do on the web.
The Application Server (DAS) is going the way of the dinosaurs I say, while the company is trying to focus on it’s strengths. I haven’t used any of their new Promotions/Publishing kits. Perhaps they’re enough to provide a new future for the company. With only a few million in revenue from their actual products you gotta figure the future is not super bright.
Goodbye Old Friend!
I’ve passed, at the mastery level, 2 of the 3 required exams for the Certified Business Intelligence Professional Certification issued by the ICCP and TDWI. Now, if I can just schedule a time for the third I can snag the actual certification….
I had considered for quite some time how best to share my thoughts, designs, ramblings, solutions with the greater BI community. While not perfect I have decided on publishing through this blog… As a consultant with limited amounts of time to devote to publishing (client projects keep me busy, luckily) this tool will allow me to quickly and easily contribute to the communities to which I love….
I apologize in advance for any misspellings, hasty or inaccurate assumptions, incomplete solutions, or other blatant mistakes. I do endeavor to present complete, accurate, whole nuggets of knowledge but don’t hold back with proofing/editing cycles.
I do hope you enjoy this blog, and encourage you to email me with feedback (positive or otherwise).
Best Wishes and Kind Regards