Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • Around the turn of the century I built a “middleware” layer for an Oracle to MySQL bridge which enabled legacy systems to keep running while modern and open source tooling could be built.

    The biggest challenge was moving from columnar to row based data … that and compiling Solaris tools using Oracle libraries.

    Oracle is like sendmail, user friendly, just very picky whom it makes friends with.

    I’m getting flashbacks to debugging an Oracle connection file.









  • Writing software is about problem solving skills which improve with practice. Often the process involves breaking down a problem into smaller pieces and breaking each of those down, until you know how to “solve” each problem.

    Writing down each “solution” and stringing them together is then the actual “programming” part of this activity … which brings with it a whole new layer of “problems” to “solve”.

    It’s as much art as it is accounting and the more you do it, the better you get at it.

    Source: I’ve been writing software since 1982.