Ramblings from The Papadopoulos Group

Open Data - Open Government - Transparency

2011-07-20T12:41:00.001-04:00

I've been following the Open Data / Open Government movement for more than a year now. My interests are two-fold: as an IT professional who has been helping companies and organizations use data to make more effective decisions; and as a citizen who want government to be more transparent in its actions and more effective in spending tax-payers' monies. There seems to be a lot of interest in

Golden Horseshoe Venture Forum - Green Energy Companies - Synopsis

2010-10-07T13:14:00.000-04:00

Wednesday morning was the kickoff breakfast of the season for GHVF. The featured companies are all in the "Green Energy" space. First up was Gordon Presher of Solar Sentry: They have a product that monitors the solar arrays in a solar farm to ensure they are operating properly. Currently, monitoring is normally done only at the inverter. By monitoring the physical arrays problems which may

Silcon Halton Meet-Up #11

2010-09-30T11:49:00.000-04:00

Last week I attended my second Silicon Halton meet-up. It was an un-meetup, in that it followed an Open Space meeting format. At the beginning of the (un)meetup, participants were given the opportunity to suggest a topic of discussion which were then voted on by everyone. The following six topics were put forth: Entry into the US market Facilitating the hiring process Improving the Silicon

The Oracle Database is a powerful development environment

2009-06-11T10:29:00.005-04:00

How many application developers truly understand what a database can do for them? Many times I have seen code written by developers for business or presentation logic placed outside the database when it did not need to be. The load on the database, on the client and across the network increase unnecessarily, since more calls to the database are made, more data is transferred between the database

A beginner's look at Oracle Performance

2009-04-14T13:30:00.006-04:00

While reading the Helsinki Declaration posts, I got to thinking about a short document on Oracle Performance for Developers I wrote a while back for a US based fund company (AUM > 1Trillion USD).I'd like to share one paragraph:"An efficient application reads the fewest blocks from memory (logical reads) to perform the work it needs. It has a transaction size (redo size) that contains all the work