You got me interested. Any updates on this? +1 for transactional vs reporting design and performance and anything to do with advance database modeling. I'm from Sydney.
Daniel Tsui On Dec 16 2009, 9:53 pm, Karthik Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > I am liking the sound of this. > > 1. Thumbs up to the topics. Particularly interested in transactional > vs reporting design and performance. > 2. Format sounds good; a full day could be good too. I prefer weekdays. > 3. I am sure you will be good mate! > 4. Yes, I can bring my old beat-up MBP. Hopefully I get a new one for > Christmas.. might need to forward this to my wife! > 5. Sydney > > 2009/12/16 Xavier Shay <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hello! > > > There was bit of twitter interest in this today so here I am fleshing > > out the concept. > > > I'm thinking about running some professional training on database > > related topics, specifically aimed towards rails programmers. I don't > > see these issues talked about much in the ecosphere, probably because > > they can be hard, which is a shame because it's really important stuff > > for any commercial site. > > > Aside from my personal interest in the topic, I've dealt (and continue > > to deal!) with this topic a lot in industry, and feel it's stuff you > > really need to know as a professional developer. > > > In my experience the hairier topics can be difficult to grasp just from > > a lecture, so the format would be a combination of theory matched with > > practical rails examples, run over a couple of nights early in 2010, > > with notes and exercises and all that jazz to take home. I'd charge a > > couple hundred bucks, money back if you don't find it valuable. > > > Of course this is only worthwhile if people are interested in it. If > > that's you, please reply (privately if you wish) and I'll keep you in > > the loop. A few questions, if you'd be so kind: > > > 1) How do these topics sound? Anything missing? Anything too mundane? > > Data Integrity > > - DB level constraints > > - Key design > > - App level concerns > > > Concurrency > > - Locking > > - optimistic vs pessimistic > > - Isolation levels > > > DB Design > > - Transactional vs Reporting DBs > > - Performance considerations > > - Data warehouses > > - How to evaluate tech? MySQL? Postgresql? Oracle? CouchDB? Cognos? > > > 2) Format OK? Would a weekend be better? > > 3) Would you prefer a different presenter? Am I too boring? > > 4) Could you bring your own laptop? > > 5) What city are you in? > > > Xavier > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
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