I realize that most people who read my blog read it in a syndicated fashion, so I thought I'd let you guys know that I plugged my del.icio.us links into the sidebar here for everyone to view. I post lots of stuff ranging from crap I want to remind myself of, to cool examples of web 2.0 ideas-- The links are as diverse as my interests, so think of it as a glimpse into the inner Joe.
Those of you Californians, listen up! I'll be attending a conference on search engine marketing in San Jose this week, with a weekend in the SFO/Oakland area afterwards. Clear your calendars!
Congratulations to the Shift2Ingres TU2k4 team! They entered the Computer Associates Ingres Challenge and came away with the largest prize, $400,000 US. Read more about it here and here.
The idea of the challenge was to write migration tools for CA's recently open sourced DBMS. They decided to offer large cash prizes out to the developer community rather than develop the tools in house. The Shift2Ingres team developed tools to migrate from Oracle, including support for all kinds of Oracle-only stuff. This just goes to show that TU2k4 was in fact the best TU ever.
Congratulations guys!