Another Year Has Passed

It's been a while since I wrote a post now, this year is not so much to write home to mum about. Not much €work, not much work at all really. Since the Covid struck business have been bad. But more work than Yesteryear, actually a little more work than I want. I'm finishing an upgrade of my Data Warehouse to PHP 7 (and 8.1 soon). The big problem was the SAP connector, it was much more work than anticipated. I'm now using Kralik's SAP connector, a very nice piece of software! Now I will start port the Data Warehouse to Azure, this will be interesting eventhough I question the wisdom of the move. The company is writing a replacement for the Data Warehouse. I think it's best just leave my data warehouse as it is, but the company really want to move it to Azure. Many years ago I predicted I would retire before the Data Warehouse, I was right, I was retired years ago. Now I start question myself if I will stop work before the Data Warehouse will be decommisioned. When that happens I will probably ask myself if I will die before the Data warehouse:) Next year 2022 apart from porting the Data Warehouse to Azure (wich is much more than 'lift-and-shift') I will help the DW guys with DW support, and maybe a bit with the DW-successor, I have discussed the Bill-of-Material logic which is a bit complex, and they are under-staffed so they may ask for some help with the . Next year I have promised myself to pick up another (computer) language, I'm interested in Raku and D. Also Svelte and Webassembly looks very interesting. I'm also qurious about Spark. And Yesterday Andreas told me I would enjoy an Oculus headset. So I'm not out of ideas for the future, the question is am I eager enough to start up something new. Time will tell. Anyway apart from peace on Earth I wish you all a happy 2020.