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re: Come Fly With Me

Travis Russell — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:05:03 GMT

Next time you are in China, try the "drunken shrimp." its quite a show when they dump live shrimp into a glass bowl filled with Chinese wine, and the shrimp commence to bouncing about trying to get out of the bowl. Once they stop moving, the cover is removed and you dig in! I was only able to choke down two of these but it is an experience I will always remember.

re: Hamming It Up in Madrid

Josh Salomon — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:39 GMT

Hi John,

As part of the SID 12 content you forgot the introduction of financial charge side by side with AppliedCustomerBillingRate to support both the display of charges on the bill and the reporting to financial systems. As part of this effort Characteristics pattern was added to ACBR so now dynamic attributes of charges are supported as well.

re: Come Fly With Me

John Streete — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:17:54 GMT

John, thanks for that link. That website is a great resource for use case (and other artifact) information of all kinds.

re: Come Fly With Me

Mark Haas — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:28:39 GMT

I had a similar squab incident in San Francisco many years ago at an IEEE conference. Dr. Stephen Yau (then the chair of the Computer Science at Arizona State) took a bunch of us to his favorite Cantonese place in China town. We ordered on of the multi-course set dinners. The third course was a pheasant dish. Just as I was looking out the window at what I thought must be some of the largest pigeons I've ever seen on the sidewalk the waiter came out and announced that they had run out of pheasant and wee going to substitute squab. It made me think twice. However, it was the best dish of the whole meal (wherever the squab was obtained from.) lol

Mark

re: SID and Database Design - At Long Last Love

Candace Beneke — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:02:07 GMT

Just found this post and link to the first three chapters of the book. It will also be helpful for people working on SID certification mapping.

re: A Winter Wonderland

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re: The Times They Are A-Changin'

John Reilly — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:18:20 GMT

Howdy, Abdel. I am not quite certain if I understand your point. The time frames are not meant to indicate change versus transformation, but how often these processes execute. Many members believe these time frames are representative of the frequency in which these process executed many years ago and no longer apply as mentioned in the examples I provided.

re: The Times They Are A-Changin'

Abdel Yousif — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:43:33 GMT

I make a distinction between using the above diagram in the context of "change versus transformation". If a company is in the process of IT and business transformation, then the time frame in the graph fits the vertical grouping. Once a platform is deployed and is operational, we make daily "changes" that I believe out of scope of the diagram presented here.

re: SID and Database Design - At Long Last Love

John Reilly — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:06:44 GMT

Thanks for pointing these typos, Tomas...and thank you all for your kind words and encouragement!

re: SID and Database Design - At Long Last Love

Tomas Hajny — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:30:34 GMT

Thanks, it's useful!

To give something back, list of spotted typos follows (pages listed as physical references provided by the Acrobat Reader, not the logical page numbers displayed in the page footer):

- Page 12/71: "CharatcteristicSpecification"

- Page 37/71: "...requires an application to do maintain..." (and probably also "If" -> "It" in the following sentence

- Page 39/71: "data base design" (although this may be intentional; similar to another "data base" on page 69/71?)

- Page 39/71: "...could deferred..."

- Page 39/71: "For example, in the..., then..." (probably "if")

- Page 51/71: "Therefore, there are examples that depict this technique have not been included."

- Page 56/71: "Also, not that PartyRoleType could represent..." ("note" instead of "not" probably meant there); also the following sentence has a trailing space at the end.

- Page 56/71: "EntitySpeCharUse" (probably "EntitySpecCharUse"?)

- Page 61/71: "implementation should prototyped"

- Page 64/71: "are not shown but are present in the logical data model, but are present in it"

I guess that they'd be corrected during proofreading later on anyway, but why not to fix them right now...

Tomas