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The Hobbyist and the Professional
I first coined this term in February 2006 in a paper titled “Overcoming the Challenges of Establishing Service and Support Channels” for the conference “Implementing Open Source for Optimal Business Performance” View Paper.
Slow Queries aren’t always that bad!
Well, now I have your attention, Slow Queries are bad (unless it’s a single user system and you don’t care). However there are worse things then slow queries in a large enterprise system.
Web Site – Speed Test
Want to know your Internet Connection speed in a real world test? Want a fancy graphical presentation of your internet Speed? SpeedTest.Net has you covered. As you can see that even provide graphics results to can use on your own site.
Google Doodles
Sometimes using that Firefox Google Quick Search causes you to miss out on the best part of the Google Search experience, and that is the Google Doodle . Now while I’m tempted to include one here, I’m respecting the wishes of Google which request you use an official logo and “don’t feed the kangaroo“.
Stories that impress and motivate you
I’ve worked for two Internet startup companies, both around 2 years each, both now long dead. The first was due to eventual lack of new VC funds, the second gross financial managment in the second year (apparently, when we were told there was no money December one year to pay us, the company that made large profits every month for over the first year, then had made losses every month for the past 12 months, but nobody knew about it.
MySQL Trigger Features
Sheeri talked a little about MySQL Triggers in One TRIGGER Fact, Optimizer Rewriting Stuff . While it’s great that MySQL 5.0 has Triggers, there are some things that I feel could become features in future releases.
Handling Error Levels in Logging
In reviewing some provided code to a client, I observed a number of actions contray to generally accepted practices regarding logging. This is what I provided as the general programming conventions with regardings to logging.
The Windoze CLI, or lack there of.
There are many reasons why I hate Windoze, here is just another example. I need via the command line, change to a given directory, so I can manually run a command.
Brisbane Users Group – MySQL Hackfest
Last night we had a number of keen souls at the Brisbane MySQL User Group . I was very impressed to see the majority of people with laptops at hand.
Compiling MySQL Tutorial 3 – Debugging Output
Continuing on from Tutorial 2 . When reviewing the 2.1. C/C++ Coding Guidelines for MySQL, you will see that the MySQL Source uses within the C/C++ code DBUG (Fred Fish’s debug library).
Google at “The Simpsons”
I have a friend that is a DBA with Fotolog . A very novel idea that works well. Worth browsing to see what people take photos of. You never know what you find.
A lesson in Perl Package Syntax
I was given a perl program today, however running on my Fedora Core 5 install gave me the following error. $ ./nameofcommand Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
It’s makes me cry
I got home today and sat down to read my home email list. Nothing new. But on a MySQL mailing list, there was an enquiry why performance was slowing in a given application.
Your Ideal Job Requirements?
I came across in my papers while searching for some taxation information, a list that I made to use as an evaluation in an “ideal job”. This goes with a general comment I made only a few weeks ago to a number of colleagues.