Not just begging off your spare change anymore...
Everyone knows what a wino is. We've all seen Wimpy after he gets his cheeseburger loan. Flush with cash, he heads straight for the quickest corner Mom and Pop and takes care of business.
I can't completely empathize with the wino, because I'm predominantly a beer-drinking fellow. However the term wino is still fun and useful. Today, I've hijacked it to name my latest project. Every information technology project simply must have a catchy acronym; mine is WINO. It's a redux of LAMP used by the overzealous open source community. The acronym goes: Windows (instead of Linux), IIS (instead of Apache), .NET (instead of PHP) and Oracle (instead of MySQL).
Sometimes I think I'm the only WINO on planet Earth. Microsofties (lovers of .NET) tend to hate Oracle Database Server for all its power and stability in favor of the drivel that is SQL Server. Oracle clergy tends to view Microsoft-anything as heresy. I'm somewhere in the ether between these worlds and I'm tired of being alone. I am out to recruit.
WINOs can now unite under my project banner and obtain sage advice, peer validation and lively source code that burns the bush brightly enough to know that their way is the righteous in the kingdom of software bundles.
Link: WINO Project
Monday, January 7, 2008
And a Wino Shall Lead Them
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3 comments:
Okay...
I've always wanted to take a look at Oracle (being a SQL Server guy), so where do I start? :)
To get started being a wino, obtain Visual Studio 2008 (any edition), Oracle Database Server (free express edition is fine) and Subversion client (I recommend TortoiseSVN).
On this blog, I'll publicize and describe any meaningful commits to the source trunk and the availability of any new demonstration applications.
Eventually, if you decide you want to contribute and give back to the wino community (or pour one for your homie), I can hook you up with read-write access to the trunk.
Currently, I'm still cobbling together the code I already have for the basis of the initial commit to the trunk.
If I'd ever touched Oracle --ever-- in my entire career, I'd definitely be a WINO :)
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