Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-30 Thread Peter Haworth
On Tue, 29 May 2001 21:55:18 +0100, Paul Sharpe wrote: > Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Paul Sharpe wrote: > > > Doesn't PostgreSQL carry on the Illustra tradition? > > > > It went to Informix most recently and then of course to IBM. > > But didn't it come *from* Postgres? Yes,

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread Paul Sharpe
Jonathan Stowe wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Paul Sharpe wrote: > > > > Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > > > James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time. > > > > > > I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Paul Sharpe wrote: > > Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time. > > > > I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C > > library out of them in the early day

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread Paul Sharpe
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time. > > I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C > library out of them in the early days. > > > > > "Illustra - Nice ideas, shame about the

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ooh that would have been very useful for me at one time. I've got bells ringing in my head about how hard it was to get a C library out of them in the early days. > > "Illustra - Nice ideas, shame about the locking approach > (and lack of outer joins,

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread James Powell
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:39:33PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:43:49 +0100, James Powell wrote: > > Also, I see you've worked with the devil known as Illustra! > > > > Me too, condolences! > > Me too. I even wrote DBD::Illustra for it, although by the time I got permissi

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:43:49 +0100, James Powell wrote: > Also, I see you've worked with the devil known as Illustra! > > Me too, condolences! Me too. I even wrote DBD::Illustra for it, although by the time I got permission to release it, no one else in the World appeared to want it. --

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You've got a link to 127.0.0.1 on your CV page (sorry, I'm nosy). Actually, you're not the only one. There are some very nosy buggers out there... :-) -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highw

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
James Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You've got a link to 127.0.0.1 on your CV page (sorry, I'm nosy). Fixed, ta. The perils of a two-tier Apache :-) > > Also, I see you've worked with the devil known as Illustra! > > Me too, condolences! They had the right idea... ;-) Still, at leas

Re: (Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread James Powell
You've got a link to 127.0.0.1 on your CV page (sorry, I'm nosy). Also, I see you've worked with the devil known as Illustra! Me too, condolences! jp On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:26:57PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > All the current projects are done and dusted and the T-shirts are at > th

(Chief) Wizard for hire...

2001-05-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
All the current projects are done and dusted and the T-shirts are at the printers (really!). I'm looking for the next round of excellent clients to work with. Take a look at my site at http://www.hodgkinson.org/ to see what I'm up to. Thanks, Dave -- Dave Hodgkinson,