Welcome - what is this blog about? Why the weird name?

Welcome. I haven't been blogging for a year or two, but my dear friend Cary Millsap talked me into it yesterday, sort of.

A little background:

Cary and I are part of a five-person "Junta" that determines who can join a club of performance nerds known as The OakTable Network (named after a big oak table in my kitchen back in 2002). I think we're about 100 members, and Tim Gorman jokingly refers to us as "The Mighty Dames and Knights of the OakTable".

All the current members have worked in the Oracle database world, but of course a good portion of us have moved into other areas over the 20 years since the inception of OakTable.

So when Cary asked me if we could do a podcast or two about his new book, I thought it was a good way to start blogging again. When I've done a podcast, I can post it here with comments, and spread the word... 

So why is the blog called teoryofspeed?

Well, I now work for a company called TEO. The Danish word for "theory" is "teori", and this blog will mainly feature topics that have to do with speed, getting things to go faster, performance, etc. Also, The Theory Of Everything has been done many times, so I thought it was time for the theory of speed :-).

Hence TEOry.blogspot.com....

Now, the first couple of blogs will be about podcasts I do with Cary, but then I'll get other people, perhaps mostly Oakies, as we're called, to chime in, commenting, adding, and critisizing the grand theories of performance, improvements, speed, and so forth put forward.

Because there's certainly not a Great Unified Theory on this available, and thus situations where performance is an issue are done in very different ways, depending on who does it, what technologies they're working with, etc.

For now, let this just be my introduction, and then we'll see how the first podcasts with Cary goes.

I'll be back :-).

Best regards,

Mogens