Posted by -CELKO- on 08/15/07 19:33

>> Nowadays when I go for interviews, many interviewers hope that I can produce a schema in just 2, 3 minutes... <<

Grab a felt-tip pen and paper napkin -- the drawing tool and surface
is important. Draw a box for every physical object they name anywhere
on the page. Draw other boxes or shapes for any kind of relationship
and connect them to the members of the first set of meaningless blobs,
while bullshitting with a lot of techno-babble.

"Here is a table for the automobiles, one for squids, and -- of course
-- one for Britney Spears since she will be very important in the
<insert name here> industry next week. If she marries a squid, we
will have a marriage relationship table here, yadda, yadda, yadda..."

Now, spill water on the napkin or put it in your pocket.

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I just re-read this before posting. I was trying to be humorous but
it really reads like "stand up tragedy" because I have been called in
to shops where they "Code first, design later" just like we did
decades ago and with the same crappy systems as a result.

The research into legal problems and industry standards for a new
system can weeks or months even in an established system. Thank
Google we can do it 1000 times faster today!

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