So I signed up for my Always Free Autonomous Database (AFAD) and a boatload of other cloud services. OK, what shall I do with them? Hmmm....well....as some of you may know, I've gotten very concerned about climate change and human-caused extinctions. I started a project with Vincent Morneau called fabe - for all a beautiful earth - to help all of us reduce consumption, rescue species and reconnect to nature. Check it out at https://fab.earth . Yes, it is an APEX application and it is already running on an Oracle Database cloud service, so....what else? You know the saying "think globally, act locally"? Well, if fabe is global, then my work on invasive species is local, very local. When I lived in Chicago, I went out to the nearest "wild" spaces I could find and cut back buckthorn trees that didn't belong in Chicago, out-competed native trees for sunlight, and killed off those native species. I rescued trees - and the literally millions of living...
For the last twenty years, I have managed to transform an obsession with PL/SQL into a paying job. How cool is that?