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Clever Design – Lost Password
Type: <td> Image </td> Source: <td> <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/lostpassword">Online Web Site</a> </td> Comments: <td> Takes a boring but essential component of any community web site and gives clear sense of what we have all done at some time previously.
Read moreClever Design – Australian Beer Export
Type: <td> Image </td> Source: <td> Billlboard inside Brisbane Airport </td> Comments: <td> Simplicity, appropriateness with poster location and with a great Aussie icon. </td>
Read moreClever Design – Presenting your business card visually
Type: <td> Image </td> Source: <td> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834">Online Slide Presentation</a> (See Slide 67) </td> Comments: <td> Provides your details with that human touch, subtle but personal </td>
Read moreNew Category – Clever Design
I am sometimes really impressed by Clever Design in print media or TV media. Over the years I’ve even collected piles of ideas, who knows where they all are now. Time to consolidate into one area, a new category on my Blog aptly named “Clever Design”.
Read moreWebsite of the Day – Slideshare
I came across an interesting site while reading [World’s Best Presentation Contest Winners Announced][1] by [Guy Kawasaki][2] called [SlideShare][3]. It’s a happy medium between the bulk of image sites like Flickr and Yahoo Photos and video sites like Revver and YouTube where you can easily add Text to what you are wanting to say in a Slide Show.
Read moreEverything fails, Monitor Everything
From the recent [MySQL Conference][1] a number of things resonate strongly almost daily with me. These included: Guy Kawasaki – Don’t let the bozos grind you down. Boy, the bozos have ground me down this week.
Read moreReading the right MySQL Manual
I learned an extremely valuable lesson today on a client site. It’s important that users of MySQL read the right version of the manual for the product they are using. It’s very easy to just goto http://dev.
Read moreThe MySQL Conference recap
I recently had the opportunity to return and speak at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group . I spent some time talking about MySQL User Conference 2007 Summary and Life as a Consultant.
Read moreReading the MySQL Manual
I was asked the question today, “How do I show the details of a Stored Procedure in MySQL. The SHOW PROCEDURE ‘name’ didn’t work.”. The obvious answer was SELECT ROUTINE_NAME,ROUTINE_DEFINITION FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.
Read moreMySQL Cluster Certified
Jonathon Coombes recently blogged in MySQL Cluster Certified that he passed the MySQL Cluster DBA Certification as was the first Australian. Lucky for him I passed the exam after my presentation on the second day of the conference.
Read moreMySQL Conference – YouTube
MySQL Conference 2007 Day 4 rolled quickly into the second keynote Scaling MySQL at YouTube by Paul Tuckfield. The introduction by Paul Tuckfield was; “What do I know about anything, I was just the DBA at PayPal, now I’m just the DBA at youTube.
Read moreMySQL Conference – Get Behind Dorsal Source
In a community session yesterday at MySQL Conference 2007, I first heard about [Dorsal Source][1]. A collaboration between [Solid DB][2] and [Proven Scaling][3] that allows for community people to upload patches to [MySQL][4], get it compiled across multiple platforms, and have a downloadable distribution available on H/W individual contributors will never have access to.
Read moreMySQL Conference – PHP on Hormones
MySQL Conference 2007 Day 4 started early again at 8:20 am with PHP on Hormones by the father of PHP Ramus Lerdorf. A very funny man, one of the best insightful talks of the conference (rather scary actually).
Read moreMySQL Conference – Google
MySQL: The Real Grid Database Introduction Can’t work on performance problems until we solve the availability We want MySQL to fix our problems first. The problem Deploy a DBMS for a workload with too many queries to many transactions to much data A well known solution
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