Screen recorder software for Mac

I’ve been researching what software exists for a Mac to produce video like screen recording and audio. Multiple people have recommended Camtasia however this is Windows only. I today with some research came across Jing Project which at first test seems perfect, easy to install, use and even deploy to an integrated Screencast .

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Beyond Blogs

I was reading today in a printed magazine Business Week the article Beyond Blogs . It’s unusual these days to actually read on paper what we can find on our online world.

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Corruption using MySQL AES_[EN|DE]NCRYPT functions

I was contacted this week by a previous client regarding a failure of processing data. This was a Contact, Financial and Media Management system I developed for a non-for-profit organization a LAMJ stack, and I’ve had to do nothing since deployment in the past 3 years, no bug fixes, no feature enhancements.

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Updated Website and Professional Blog

For those that have my existing blog bookmarked, or use any RSS/Atom feeds please update your information now. My new blog can be found at http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ RSS 2 is http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/feed/rss2 , Atom is http://ronaldbradford.

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Everything open source from Sun

In the recent interview Missed Twitter Questions from Jonathan Schwartz Interview at Web 2.0 Expo Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is quoted as saying “Everything Sun delivers will be freely available, via a free and open license (either GPL, LGPL or Mozilla/CDDL), to the community.

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Migrating my blog & updating WordPress

I’m migrating my existing WordPress run blog site at blog.arabx.com.au to a my new site ronaldbradford.com (which is not yet publically available) As part of this process I’ll be doing a number of upgrades/changes including:

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How does ape transition to man? (or at least coder)

By drinking “Brainiac” at Google of course. All my photos from the Conference Here

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Log Buffer #94: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

April 25th, 2008 – by Ronald Bradford Welcome to the 94th edition of Log Buffer , the weekly review of the database blogsphere. Adding to the list of usual database suspects, I have some more alternative considerations for our readers this week.

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Making business decisions for the community and the enterprise

I was prompted following a few key words by Marten Mickos at the Sun Dinner on Wednesday evening, and subsequent one on one discussion with Marten, to post my thoughts of some significant news this week announced at the MySQL Conference.

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Continued confusion in MySQL/Sun release policy

In review of some list posts today, I came across the Falcon Preview 6.0.5 downloads available from the MySQL Forge (even that is unclear, but the directory indicates this on the forge).

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Media Blob Streaming getting a Google boost

The 2008 Google Summer of Code MySQL Projects are now available. MySQL has 14 listed projects, one of the ~190 different Open Source products listed. Unfortunately there is no summary to see the total number of projects being sponsored across all products.

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The database frontier

Jay’s opening lines regarding the final MySQL Conference keynote speaker was: “I work with a lot of data. I think peta-bytes, maybe exa-bytes”. This was relating to Jacek Becla from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, giving his presentation on “The Science and Fiction of Petascale Analytics”.

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The top 20 design tips for MySQL Enterprise data architects

The slides from my 2008 MySQL Conference Presentation can be downloaded from here .

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Q: What a MySQL fellow does?

A: Maria, an ACID, MVCC engine that plans to be the default non-transactional and default transactional engine for MySQL. Presently development with a team of 6 people and plans of adding 2-3 developers the work on Maria should see the 1.

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