October 10th is my last day as an Oracle DBA. After that – I start working as a person who provides technical resources to all of our staff over seas.
When a lot of people hear IT – they immediately think help desk. I’ve never done help desk. I’ve been a developer and done lots of application admin type stuff over the years – but no help desk. I end up in that role on an informal basis every so often, but I think everybody in my line of work runs into that.
The team I am joining, the Global Technology Office, is not all that big. So everybody pitches in wherever they are needed. It can mean lots of things. But what I’ve been told will be my little niche is providing help to developers outside the US that want to interface their systems with ours. An example would be someone out there trying to get WordPress or Drupal working with our identity management system.
This means I get to spend a lot of time focusing on stuff I really want to do – working with open source software. I can’t wait. It also means lots more working with MySQL. You have to take the bad with the good I guess. I’m stoked though – this is going to be really cool.
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We just had a couple good friends and their three beautiful kids visit with us. It was so great to see them. They are in the middle of their new staff training with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Technically they work for JAARS – in the aviation part of the ministry.
The Wycliffe USA headquarters are a couple hundred yards from our house. So they came out a day early and hung out with us. It was a lot of fun and our kids were sad to see them go. Hopefully their training schedule wont be too crazy and we will get to hang out again before they return to Arizona.
I don’t usually cross-post between my blogs. But I’m doing so here for a couple reasons. One is that the posts I’m going to mention would fit in really well over here – usually I don’t have stuff that I’m torn on where to post it. The second is that I don’t allow comments over there – for a host of reasons. But I’d like something up here in case someone reads and wants to discuss.
Basically I have been and will be writing down my thoughts in regards to mission/ministry and technology. The first is here, Connections Part 1 and the second is here, Connections Part 2. I’m just getting started but thought I’d point it out now.
