As I mentioned in my previous blog entry, my son came to me with a good idea for a web site. So this week, while waiting for work to come in or to hear something (anything) concerning the third contract, I started fleshing out the requirements.
It has been fun and a great way to both fill my time and contribute to a possible future family fortune J. We need to find a great web developer and graphic artist, algorithm wiz, database designer and data miner. We need them to come on board for free, in return for part of the company. I currently have no idea how to do this and will soon start talking to friends to benefit from their experiences.
When I first started my career my title was systems analyst, and in addition to understanding the functional requirements, I also provided basic database design, with rationalized entities and their attributes. In Israel that is not considered part of the job, and also how we hold databases has changed and we have experts who work with the developers on this. As part of my son’s project I am again looking (at least) at the entities and attributes, as a large part of the added value of the web site will come from data mining. I find this fascinating and challenging and it reminds me of earlier times.
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