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Fotolog New Messenger Feature
Fotolog has released interactive chat yesterday. See Official Fotolog Release . I’ve got four accounts here for my photos. Vehicle Plates ,Cool Vehicle Plates ,Lifes Short Adventure & Arabx So I’m logged on, and I get this popup message like this:
Read moreMySQL NY Meetup Presentation
Tonight I spoke at the NY MySQL Meetup . The topic “Practical Performance Tips & Tricks” was a full packed 1 hour session, with 4 x 15 minute sections on Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and MySQL Proxy.
Read moreOther iPhone experiences for corporate users
I am not alone in my experience as a corporate AT&T/Cingular user wanting an iPhone. See my last post iPhone activation – Finally after 3 days . In the past 30 minutes I’ve read the same pain from many people.
Read moreiPhone activation – Finally after 3 days
If you have been following my iPhone saga, last time was iPhone for corporate users. What a debacle So after 3 days, my phone is finally activated, however it was no as simple even with the required hoops mentioned last time.
Read moreiPhone for corporate users. What a debacle
What a debacle. Here is how poorly AT&T have handled the management of the iPhone for the millions of “individual” users that have their bill paided for under a corporate account.
Read moreiPhone interest at the NY Apple Store
As I mentioned earlier , I purchased an iPhone the night of release at the NY Apple store without much difficulty, certainly no line. This video gives you an indication of the iPhone display area and empty sales lines.
Read moreThe iPhone
Apple today released the iPhone . It was released at 6pm on Friday June 29. Who releases a product at 6pm on a Friday? While walking up 5th Avenue before dinner I noticed a line of people outside a Cingular (now the new AT&T) store (the only phone network you can get an iPhone for).
Read moreMySQL Proxy. Playing with the tutorials
I was playing with the 5 sample tutorial Lua scripts available here with the MySQL Proxy , but I was doing something a little inefficiently. I started mysqld, then I started the MySQL Proxy with the lua script, then connected to MySQL via the proxy.
Read moreThe algorithm is banned in China
This is an image I took yesterday of a billboard “The algorithm is banned in China.”. I don’t get it. This one has “Ask” in the bottom of the image.
Read moreIt doesn’t take long
Google Van is one of the sites now sporting images found as part of Google Street View which has been on line for about a month now. What is the world coming to!
Read moreWhat’s your disk I/O thoughtput?
MySQL uses disk. Ok, so everybody knew that. MySQL uses disk in two primary ways. Random I/O (Reading & Writing Data/Index blocks) Sequential I/O (Binary Log, InnoDB Redo Log) Historically it’s been best practice to separate these onto different spindles, and also separating the OS and tmp space onto a third spindle.
Read moreTop 5 Best Practices for MySQL
We had the Top 5 wishes for MySQL started by Jay recently. So in true chain letter fashion I’m starting a new one this week. “The top 5 Best Practices for MySQL”.
Read moreGot MySQL Proxy yet!
If you haven’t got MySQL Proxy yet, then stop and get it now. Jan announced the release a few days ago of this new product offering from MySQL . I first heard about MySQL Proxy at the recent MySQL Conference 2007 and actually used it a few weeks later to help address slow running queries during benchmarking with a granularity of milliseconds — Wow.
Read moreQuery Cache is deterministic
I was reading some points on a Blog post today here . I didn’t see it via Planet MySQL but via a Google Alert. The post has several good beginner points on MySQL Performance, but included the point “Literal current date is better than using the CURRENT_DATE() function because literals will use the query cache but functions won’t.
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