The CTO of the State of California, responding to being called out by Tech Crunch and the San Francisco Chronicle for setting aside $50 million to maintain an antiquated 70’s-era legacy system just to process unemployment checks, has challenged the public to “walk the talk” and propose better ways his state can conduct its IT operations.

Even though I don’t live in California, I can’t resist such a challenge.
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I do a lot of work with Sql Server Integration Services these days. Complicated Data Warehouse stuff mostly. While SSIS certainly shines with heavy-duty ETL work, it’s one of my favorite tools because it works just as well for simple automation tasks.

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I have one of those new Facebook vanity URLs.

Now, instead of that long and impossible-to-memorize URL, you can find my facebook page at facebook.com/jamelcato