March 24, 2004
The more things change...
It's funny. My first real job after graduation was working for UEA's Development and External Relations department (now the Communications Division). My job was to transfer the university's alumni records from a bespoke mainframe application onto a Windows database. I started developing the data munging application on a Digital Alpha, but quickly moved to running linux on my office desktop instead, which with a 486 processor and 64mb of RAM could easily outpace the Alpha. I remember downloading slackware onto a stack of floppy disks...
Fast-forward to today. The Communications Division's alumni database is a bespoke mainframe application again. What job am I doing? Data munging to rescue someone else's legacy database and to convert it to a more modern solution.
Funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Currently listening to Never Gonna Come Back Down (Timo Maas Mix) from the album Rare & Remixed (Disc 2) by BT
Posted by savs at March 24, 2004 1:11 AM