2001 I created the data warehouse. The reason was to help a purchaser with a forecast report. It would have been easy just to create a paper report from the mainframe ERP system I created 1979, but I wanted to create a better tool for business analyzing and reporting, but I did not get founds to by any software, so I had to create a system from what I had and free software. I was pretty sure the data warehouse would be around for some ten years or so, but not for twenty three years, still counting! I some years ago wrote that the swan song for the data warehouse had begun, it is a very long tune indeed. I would not be overly surprised if I can celebrate a twenty fifth jubilee next year.
Of course I have not done The Data Warehouse alone, I made the infrastructure and the tools to import and massage the data. Most reports, marts, apps etc, have been made by others, not to forgot the operations. A data warehouse is a complex piece of machinery that needs supervising, maintenance and tinkering 24x7.
For this year I expect to finalize the PHP 7.4 to 8.4 conversion, this is my worst job ever and I have done a lot of really bad jobs during the years. This upgrade is something I'm forced to do, I really did not want to do it, but you do not argue with IT security. I also need to upgrade MySQL. Both these things should have been done ages ago. But now I have to do it boring, boring, boring.
When I retired I said 'From now on I only do fun things that interest me.' Since then I only do boring things or even worse, I had to maintain some SharePoint apps for some years, that was hopefully the low moment of my years in IT. I have for some ten years wanted to start D programming, but I can not muster the energy needed to learn D. I also have looked at Raku but have not started yet. And now I'm looking at Java script again! I really hope I can muster energy this year to restart my career, I'm still only seventy one.
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