I’ve got it on my list to write about the similarities between musicians and programmers. It’s of interest to me because I am also a musician and have known a relatively large number of people that were accomplished programmers as well as accomplished musicians.

Interesting link. I feel for the guy. Sadly I traded off my 62 Gibson SG in the late 70’s for a piece of %$#& Ovation acoustic. I’ve made a couple of horrendous decisions in the past that cost me dearly. But honestly, the decision to trade that guitar is the only one I think back on and wish I could undo.

Interesting that you think about your current project as molding clay. I find I often start out with that frame of mind on a project, but that often shifts to more of a sculpture metaphor. (i.e. “I just chip away everything that doesn’t look like a horse.”) I had a friend that told me he viewed it as if he was going into battle (and spent several minutes describing what he meant, in excruciating detail).

Thanks again for the comments.

Kerry

odd tangent: hitting next blog link a few times from Noon’s blog landed me an interesting useless music tidbit, I know not why (date posted, maybe): http://bertnews.blogspot.com/

One of my current tasks is to write a front end for some data entry, to move the effort from one group closer to the group that generates the data (and gets some of it bar-codable). So I’m taking the data entry program and hacking away, I actually did think of it like molding clay before you said anything about it.

On the limited browsing:

Well what do you know. Google is amazing! Thanks for sharing.

On the raw materials:

This is really an interesting topic (to me anyway). I would like to spend some time writing about it. Anyway, I don’t think of the language as a raw material, like clay or stone or wood or paint. I think of it as a tool like a chisel or a paint brush. Using these tools (which are not consumed in the process) a thought can be transformed into something real and tangible. Music is very similar in that a tool (instrument) is used, and basically a thought can be transformed into something at least semi tangible. It’s the closest thing to magic I can think of. Not to dismiss the fact that we are all standing on the shoulders of countless men and women that went before us. Without the advanced tools we have at our disposal, it would be very difficult to do what we do. Here’s to the pioneers!

Kerry

Some limited browsing of the scripts directory is available.

http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/scripts/

While browsing that directory is not allowed, you can try putting in the directory followed by the explicit file name you are looking for. Like so:

http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/scripts/find_sql.sql

Kerry

You got a very good scripts written for a daily use , is that possible to share all your scripts by any chance ?

Regards

Bala