tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343900372012-01-21T00:44:34.230-08:00Articles and ideas about various types of technical stuffs related to software engineering including SDLC and Development Methodologies, Database Administration, and Software Development technologies. Unless the writer specifies, posts and their technical deliverables are written by me. I try to make my posts as variant as possible, a trend to keep this blog to be not specified by only one technology.Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-8202525623898483842008-10-07T00:24:00.005-07:002008-10-07T00:59:52.191-07:00

Hi folks,A short one, for the sake of keeping my weblog updated.Recently I have been working with a development team on various sub-projects of a bigger project. The development of some other modules was finished and the new features were being introduced in form of new sub-projects. The team was eager to adopt Agile development. So we decided to do so in one of those sub-projects in order to get

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-72082637154682609782008-04-23T19:05:00.006-07:002008-04-23T20:12:50.800-07:00

I just wanted to write a quick one about the IT Architect Regional Conference SEA which was over yesterday. I will definitely continue writing about all the questions that I got during the two days conference as I've promised.One of the questions was that how I have become entitled to be a Senior Software Architect at this age.Well, the quick answer would be that I was lucky enough to find out at

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-29746545933342069882008-04-09T22:21:00.002-07:002008-04-09T22:28:17.386-07:00

HiI'll be a delegate in W.C.I.T 2008 (World Congress on Information and Technology) which is being hold in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this coming May.See you all there.

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-54011507755849479202008-04-06T23:38:00.005-07:002008-04-06T23:55:57.100-07:00

Hi folks,I'll be speaking in one of the sessions at the IT Architect Regional Conference of South East Asia in Malaysia. Here is the link to the conference home page:http://www.iasahome.org/web/itarc/KLThe topic's title in the website is stated as "Managing Changes and Mitigating Risks in Software Development" which is not correct. The topic that I intend to talk about is "Planning Iterative

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-84547338842856186992008-02-12T00:32:00.002-08:002008-04-23T19:04:46.594-07:00

Hello folks,I know, I know. It's been quite a few month. I received not many emails and comments from friends, which I chose not to publish them, and all, in a nutshell, were asking "what the hack I'm doing".Well, I haven't been doing anything but work. I also have been looking at my weblog every week and thinking what a pity it is that I don't have enough time anymore to update my weblog. Truth

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-22532082214774570332007-09-13T19:54:00.000-07:002007-09-13T20:03:26.195-07:00

Hi folks,Here is another published article of mine on IASA's web site. I hope can keep it up.This is the direct link and this is a link through IASA's content repository.I also figured out that you can not post any comment on the IASA's forum unless you are a member. So please do it here whatever it is.

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-81864441551422770922007-08-10T23:56:00.000-07:002007-08-11T00:26:05.569-07:00

Hi everyoneRecently I've allocated some of my time to write articles to publish on IASA's web site. I thought it might be a good idea to save some times and reuse them as my posts here. That's what we are supposed to do as architects; reusing. Isn't it?Here is one: Overcoming Requirement Challenges with IIDIf it wasn't there as IASA's repository get updated fast then use the direct link.By the

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-23095989132355224722007-06-27T09:39:00.001-07:002007-06-27T10:18:40.213-07:00

HelloI’ve recently joined a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) provider company which gives me an excellent opportunity to put my knowledge of SOA and SaaS in action. So I guess that’s what is going to shape my future posts here.Well, here is one.SDPs (Service Delivery Platforms) are playing almost the same role for delivering Software as a Service (SaaS) as Operating Systems do in desktop

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-82911364418227222252007-06-04T18:26:00.000-07:002007-06-04T18:39:58.961-07:00

Hi everybody,You might have heard of MSA (Master of Science in Analytics) by now.It’s an intensive 10-month professional graduate degree program designed by Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University that focuses exclusively on the tools, methods, and applications of analytics and is designed to educate professionals with sophisticated technical skills necessary to

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-30170813877799344872007-04-21T09:24:00.000-07:002007-04-21T19:11:10.028-07:00

Hi folks,What would be your answer to the above question? Use-Case driven, Test-Driven, Scenario-Driven, or perhaps Feature-Driven.People often talk about these drivers as the only forces steering projects and shaping project plans. But in fact these mechanisms are used for defining and managing projects’ scopes. I believe without Iterative and Incremental Development (IID) approach you won’t

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-22360594066719243912007-03-23T01:31:00.000-07:002007-03-23T01:52:57.126-07:00

Hi guys,Recently I’ve became so busy that I totally forgot about my blog. Even when I try to do everything perfectly, something comes up and ruins my plans. Well, that’s the nature of our jobs anyway. Nothing is predictable.A while ago I was reading an article at Dr.Dobb’s Journal from Scott Ambler (see his profile at IBM) here. I suggest you guys to read it as well if you haven’t yet.It actually

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-90851326654540794022007-02-22T08:29:00.000-08:002007-02-22T08:45:05.398-08:00

Hi folks,These days loosely coupled sort of integrations are much more common especially using SOA as the business processes are becoming more dynamic and object-based development platforms are increasing, but I don’t think it means tightly coupled ones are defunct.In fact I believe if there is a stable way to integrate heterogeneous systems (.NET and J2EE in our case) in a tightly coupled manner

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-72035261540446666262007-01-20T08:35:00.000-08:002007-01-22T02:41:35.709-08:00

Good day,Before finishing this series, I would like to point out a very important matter. A few days ago, a colleague of mine, asked a question about the current series and the point of doing that much of configurations to implement RLS for an application that users always face the application itself; not its database. So basically developers can implement the logic in the application.I believe I

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-23149102694672644482006-12-22T19:20:00.000-08:002006-12-22T21:34:58.800-08:00

Hello guys,As I promised, in the second part I’m going to show you how to implement Record Level Security (RLS) in Oracle and in the next one we will talk about SQL Server’s way to do such a thing.Before I start, I must thank all my friends who sent me e-mails with ideas and suggestions. But I want to ask you guys to post them on the blog next time as comments so that the others will know what

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-3581864245868932592006-12-03T20:56:00.000-08:002006-12-03T21:09:58.852-08:00

HiA friend of mine sent me an e-mail to know why I have became lazy to update my weblog. I’m just so busy at the moment with a new coming project and don’t have enough time to make a post more than once a week. So I guess I have to apologize to those are really following my posts.Anyway, in this series I’m going to present how we can implement access controls in databases at row level, Row Level

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-87165108046374287062006-11-24T01:49:00.000-08:002006-11-24T01:56:56.464-08:00

Hi folks,It’s been a long time since the last post. If you are asking about the vacation, that was perfect. I really needed a break.Anyway, I’m going to make this one short and brief.If you are an Oracle expert or pursuer, you’ve probably been following Oracle’s Open World and its news. One of the biggest one was Oracle’s announcement of distribution and support of Red Hat Linux on October 26.

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-44615864370613286092006-11-03T19:48:00.000-08:002006-11-03T19:51:05.164-08:00

HiWell, this time I’m not going to write any thing technical.I just wanted to let you know that I’m in a vacation and that’s why you don’t see any update on my weblog.I’d like to cut any connection or whatsoever with the cyber world and have a break.See you soon

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-19860280487524872282006-10-23T10:31:00.000-07:002006-10-23T11:05:56.037-07:00

Hi folks,I know, it’s been a while that I haven’t made a post. I was kind of busy with a new project. You know?Any way, I'd like to write about something a little bit different from the other posts, Iterative Development.Well, it may sounds easy and obvious. That’s what I thought when I heard it for the first time. But usually when I ask this simple question that what Iterative Developments is, I

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-1160926195324192622006-10-15T07:55:00.000-07:002006-10-15T08:42:25.222-07:00

Hi guys,I've decided to stop TFS posts, which seems to have most adherents, for a while and go back to the other topics.That's why in this post I'm going to write about Oracle's Shared Pool and the way it is being used and also introduce a package named "DBMS_SHARED_POOL".So if you already know what it is that I’m going to talk about this time, you better don't get your mind dirty here.Every

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-1160500230112577922006-10-10T09:12:00.000-07:002006-10-15T08:42:25.165-07:00

Hello there,I’d like to write about other aspects of team development using TFS this time and close this series. But it seems I can’t. I didn’t realize TFS deployment is that much troublesome.I tell you what. I make this post about TFS deployment and close this series for now and I’ll continue it after I write about other topics. The reason is simple. I’ve missed other stuffs like Oracle, BI, or

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-1159948944643242732006-10-04T00:27:00.000-07:002006-10-15T08:42:25.102-07:00

Hi there,In the first installment of this series, we discussed about the reasons of needing something like TFS when we are running a project on Microsoft’s platform.This time, we are going to take a look at the architecture of TFS.TFS is based on a multi-tiered architecture, consisting of a client tier, an application tier, and a data tier.Data tier consists of SQL Server 2005, which stores

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-1159597570402596282006-09-29T23:09:00.000-07:002006-10-15T08:42:25.040-07:00

Hi folk,I’ve decided to stop posting about Oracle and as I promised write about MS TFS (Microsoft® Team Foundation Server) for a while. To me, the biggest challenges of medium size to enterprise wide projects, are managing the artifacts and deliverables in one single place, directing all development efforts toward one target, lack of project’s predictability, and last but not least distributed

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-1158984330603666272006-09-22T21:00:00.000-07:002006-10-15T08:42:24.979-07:00

HiAs I promised in first part, we are going to have more technical tips this time. So I go directly to the point.In my opinion, there are two reasons to get confused when someone (as a SQL Server DBA or Programmer) wants to peek up Oracle and vice versa.1- Similar Terms which at the first glance have same meanings but have different implementations.2- Doing things in Oracle in the same way

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-1158432276982103512006-09-16T11:21:00.000-07:002006-10-15T08:42:24.906-07:00

Hi I know. I’ve published my last post a day before yesterday. But you know; I got e-mails from my friends and family all around the globe that what I’m doing is so exciting and I want to take this opportunity to thank them all for encouraging me.That’s why I decided to publish this one so soon. But I make it short.In the first part I’m going to talk about the main issue that people like me might

Amir Gheibihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514793908105948763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34390037.post-1158302883905962822006-09-14T23:32:00.000-07:002006-10-15T08:42:24.804-07:00

Hi everyoneI'm so excited to make this post as it's the first one in my first blog.You know, I was thinking what I should really start with; Database, C# or something not technical as I'm at the beginning. But then I decided to start with something that I love most, RUP.Well, this one is not purely about RUP. But the sample that I'm gonna use here is from RUP.Here we go...SysML (System Modeling

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