Blogging away!

For a long time, I wanted to create a web site with some articles that reflected my thoughts on database and J2EE. During the 15 odd years of my experience in the software industry, I have realized that there is a huge gap between the middle tier folks in Java and the database folks (or the backend folks.) In fact my book - Expert Oracle JDBC Programming - was largely inspired by my desire to fill this gap for Java developers who develop Oracle-based applications. Although most of my industry experience has been in developing Oracle-based applications, during the last 2 years or so, I have had the opportunity to work with MySQL and SQL Server databases as well. This has given me a somewhat unique perspective on developing Java applications that use database (a pretty large spectrum of applications.)

This blog will contain my opinions on this largely controversial subject (think database-independence for example), on good practices related to Java/J2EE and database programming (Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server). From time to time, it will also include any other personal ramblings I may choose to add.

Feel free to give comments on any of my posts here.

Enjoy!