About Mobility

A little bit about my middle (older) brother — see Carlos (Rafael) Ortiz Longo (Wikipedia).

…he is the brain in the family

(yes, the manned space program is in our blood)

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P.S. It is very cool to see all those people who have been contributing to my brother’s Wikipedia page; thanks all!

Michael Stonebraker is a DB guru — over 30 years of experience with database technologies. He started with Ingres (and the open source PostgreSQL) developed at UC Berkeley, he taught at UC Berkeley, is currently an adjunct professor of computer science at MIT, and is an expert on “federated database and stream-processing markets”. Stonebraker was recently interviewed for the ACM Queue by Margo Seltzer, co-founder of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, now owned by Oracle.

A couple of good quotes from the interview:

“If I want to be able to read and write a data element in less than a millisecond, there is no possible way that I can do that from an application program to any one of the elephant databases, because you have to do a process switch, a message to get into their systems. You’ve got to have an embedded database, or you lose.”

“In the stream processing market, the only kinds of databases that make any sense are ones that are embedded. With all the other types, the latency is just too high.”

“C++ and C# are really big, hard languages with all kinds of stuff in them. I’m a huge fan of little languages, such as PHP and Python.”

“Look at a language such as Ruby on Rails. It has been extended to have database capabilities built into the language. You don’t make a call out to SQL; you say, “for E in employee do” and language constructs and variables are used for database access. It makes for a much easier programming job.”

“Let’s look at Ruby on Rails again. It does not look like SQL. If you do clean extensions of interesting languages, those aren’t SQL and they look nothing like SQL. So I think SQL could well go away.”

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Every now and then I like to write about a (mobility) blogger that I really like…

And today, I want to write about The Pondering Primate weblog… And while he is known as the Pondering Primate, his real name is Scott P. Shaffer, CEO and Chief Innovator at Visionary Innovations Inc. Scott is also an Iron Man - literally.

Scott (and his weblog) is a great source of information on mobile marketing and Physical World Connection (PWC).

Scott says: 

"every physical object will allow connection to a designated
website and the mobile phone with it's physical world browser
will be able to surf the "real world", the physical one"

The Pondering Primate is a great weblog, with great insights, and fun to read.

Past reviewed mobility blog stars:

* Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect

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After reading about Guy's loop, it occured to me to have my own Film Loop, about the people who read this Mobility blog… So I have created The Mobility Weblog Film Loop — join the loop and add a photo of yourself with comments. This should be a fun exercise, a fun way to see who reads this blog…

I just learned via Erik's blog that Guy Kawasaki has started his own blog — Kewl! I've met him before and he is a great guy, and one of my favorite speakers and authors… I am a follower of his doctrine and about the importance of making meaning… Welcome to the blogosphere Guy!