On The Margins(Masood Mortazavi)PostgreSQL Surveys- June 18, 2008 PostgreSQL.org community pages contain some interesting surveys.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/postgresql_surveys A PostgreSQL Monitor- June 16, 2008 Jignesh Shah has implemented a simple PostgreSQL monitor using Netbeans 6.1, which also has facilities to make packaging and distribution of a Java app much easier.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/a_postgresql_monitor1 Opinions and Social Pressure- June 15, 2008 Solomon E. Asch's "Opinions and Social Pressure" (Scientific American, Vol 193, No. 5, 1955) was probably one of the best papers I read during an organizational behavior class I took at Haas School of Business during my studies there. (Barry M. Staw has published the paper in his Psychological Dimensions of Organizational Behavior. The 2nd edition had the paper, and I'm sure Professor Staw has kept it for his 3rd edition. ) A BBC radio program gives very good summary of the paper...http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/opinion_and_social_pressure II II- June 14, 2008 . .http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C Subtle Significance of Job Satisfaction- June 9, 2008 I quote the following passage from the conclusion to Dennis W. Organ's paper ("The subtle significance of job satisfaction," Clinical Laboratory Management Review, (JanFeb 1990) 4, no.1, 94-98): Management research and theory have taken a long time and a torturous path in catching up with the insights of Chester Barnard. More than half a century ago, Barnard noted the essential condition of the "willingness of persons to contribute efforts to the cooperative...http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/subtle_significance_of_job_satisfaction MIT Online Courseware- June 4, 2008 MIT Online Courseware has gotten better and better with time.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/mit_online_courseware Community Statistics for Netbeans Database Usage- June 2, 2008 "The database support in NetBeans allows users to connect to a database and view and modify the database structure and data. These graphs show which database servers users connect to most often." Of particular note, besides the large usage of MySQL and Oracle, is the large usage of Java DB (Derby), and the significant PostgreSQL usage.http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/community_statistics_netbeans_database_usage Modern Persian Ceramic and Carpets- June 1, 2008 A friend sent me a link to an interesting video report on a ceramic exhibition by Iranian women artists posted on Jadid ("new") Online. (Interviewees in the report speak in Persian but you can read the English subtitles which provide pretty good translation.) Jadid Online's report on carpets by the late Iranian artist, Abolfath Rassam-Arabzadeh, contains an amazing display of his works described by his daughter, Zhila, with a sneak view into the museum and...http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/entry/persian_ceramic_art |