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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.
Read moreHandling 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.
Read moreMicrofox ?
I’ve added Digg to my general lunch time reading web sites. I came across this yesterday. Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond . Well, isn’t that nice, the big boy opening his pond (including all the sharks) to the little fish.
Read moreThe fast pace of technology in a Web 2.0 world
I had need to goto the Wikipedia this morning to review the terminology of something, and on the front page in Today’s featured article is Mercury. Being a tad curious given I’d heard only on the radio a few hours ago that Pluto was no longer a planet in our Solar System, I drilled down to the bottom to check references to other planets (quicker then searching).
Read moreNo Spam Today
Huh, tricked you. As if! However I was looking at my Akismet Spam section in WordPress , the open source software that runs my blog, and it gave me this message.
Read moreBecome named in Firefox 2
So, FireFox have come up with a novel idea to promote it’s product. Check out Firefox Day. The official blurb: Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.
Read moreCompiling MySQL Tutorial 2 – Directly from the source
Should you want to be on the bleeding edge, or in my case, don’t want to download 70MB each day in a daily snapshot (especially when I’m getting build errors), you can use Bit Keeper Free Bit Keeper Client that at least lets you download the MySQL Repository.
Read moreCompiling MySQL Tutorial 1 – The Baseline
Pre-requisites This tutorial is aimed at Linux installations that has the standard development tools already installed. The INSTALL file in the source archives provides good details of the software required (e.
Read moreMySQL Response to Bugs
I’ve read at times people complaining about the response to bugs, and people bag the support of MySQL on the forums at times. Well today I logged a bug, not the first and I’m sure it’s not the last.
Read moreMercurial Version Control Software
I got asked (being a Java developer) about what was involved in creating an Eclipse Plugin for Mercurial. Well in true Google style, why invent when somebody probably already has. A quick check finds Mercurial Eclipse by VecTrace.
Read moreWhat is software quality?
Greg Lehey wrote today Is MySQL getting buggier?. The underlying question of his comments is a more fundamental and passionate topic, and especially for me. That is “Software Quality”. The quintessential question is this.
Read moreDifferences in syntax between mysql and mysqltest
As I wrote earlier in Using the MySQL Test Suite I found an issue with using the current MySQL Sakila Sample Database as a test with mysqltest. I was running an older version of 5.
Read moreUsing PBXT 0.9.5
Paul has released Version 0.95 of his PBXT MySQL Transactional Storage Engine. Here is what I did to get it operational under CentOS 4.3. su - useradd pbxt su - pbxt wget http://www.
Read moreUsing the MySQL Test Suite
MySQL provides two different tools to test the MySQL Server with SQL statements. One is mysqltest and in 5.1 mysqlslap. Both of these tools have quite different purposes. This is a quick review of the usage of mysqltest.
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