Started a work related blog

Started a blog for just work related stuff. It's at http://toad.henrik.org/ if someone is interested. I moved some recent postings from this blog to there. I figured the work stuff might be interesting for some users of Toad, but these people will probably not care where I go on vacation and other stuff I put here.

First review of Toad for DB2

Just had to share this review of one of the products I am working on (Original review)

"Worth Using?

In a word: yes. A command line processor is not without its charms. But when you have to work fast and the nostalgia of typing line by line has worn off, nothing beats a solid GUI.

But Toad is a prince of an interface. It helps me accomplish everything I might need and a few things I didn't think about. The application runs fast, it's fairly intuitive, it has extensive context-sensitive documentation, and it makes cool croaking sounds when you start it up. What else can I say? I love it, warts and all. I'll kiss this Toad anytime. It leapfrogs over other database tools I've seen. And best of all, with a name like Toad, writers can make cheesy cliches for days."

Fun times

Finally done with the release of the Toad for DB2 which is the last release for a while. Usually the way it works when you do software development is that the most fun period of work is right after a release. Because that is the time when you can tear stuff up and write new stuff at a furious pace, so from the developers standpoint that is definitely the most interesting time.

Because of the DB2 release which was finished this Tuesday there has been a ridiculous amount of work lately. But I can still mostly do it from home so it's not so bad. And off course, as always I still find this being one of the most interesting things to do.

Apart from that I've also been out partying quite a lot lately so all in all there hasn't been that much time for sleeping so I think I'm going to take it easy for a few weeks now.

As some times before I'm going to end off with a quote. This time it's from George of Seinfeld.

"Kramer goes to a fantasy camp. His whole life is a fantasy camp. People should plunk down $2000 to live like him for a week. Do nothing, fall ass-backwards into money... and have sex without dating. Thats a fantasy camp."

Random tidbits

Just some random updates on what I'm up to here. I've been working like crazy lately because of two products that I'm working on are going RTM (Release to management). The first one is Toad for SqlServer and the second one Toad for DB2. Because I'm involved a lot in the framework that we are building all these products on I tend to get swamped when anything approaches released. Hopefully it should slow down a bit in a few weeks.

I've also heard two different tidbits about life in Laguna here. The first one is about me leaving for home for two weeks and managing to forget to lock the front door of my house. My neighbour found it unlocked and later told that she thought "Wow, he must feel really safe in this neighbourhood". Needless to say, I don't feel that safe and I guess it was just a case of temporary insanity at 4am in the morning as I left.

The second one is that I heard from a friend of mine that he got robbed at knifepoint here in Laguna Beach outside the Stop and Go just half a mile from where I live. I honestly didn't think that kind of stuff happend at this place. At least not often enough so that I would actually meet someone it had happened to. He is ok though, and he only lost a couple of bucks.

Went RTM with my first product today

I went RTM today. If you don't know what it means, don't worry about it I didn't know it before I started at Quest either. It means either "Release To Marketing" or "Release To Management" or "Release To Market". Anyway, it basically means that we ship our product. I've done it once before, but that was just an adaptation of TOra (The product I sold to Quest) and it was never a commercial product, only a free offering.

So the plan is going drinking tonight and going to Mammoth skiing during the weekend.