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Drizzle | 2010-01-06
Describing Drizzle’s Development ProcessYesterday, I was working on a survey that Selena Deckelmann put together for open source databases. She will be presenting the results at Linux.conf.au this month. One of the questions […]
MySQL | 2009-11-24
A Laptop for Developers without paying The Windows TaxI find it amazing that the U.S. Department of Justice can continue to cover its eyes and ears while Microsoft is allowed to exert its monopolistic power over all hardware […]
Open Source | 2009-10-28
If Ever There Was a Sure-fire Tenant…My wife and I have a double that we rent out to two couples. Luckily, one of these couples has been in one side of the double for a couple […]
MySQL | 2008-06-20
Removing Barriers to the Community – MySQL Moves to BazaarI’ve been at MySQL for two and a half years now as a community manager. Through this time, I’ve learned a number of valuable lessons about what it means to […]
MySQL | 2008-02-21
It’s About the Product, SillyToday there was a recent flurry of blog posts, starting with Charles Babcock’s interview of Jonathan Schwartz about Sun’s strategy of targeting Web 2.0 developers. This brought to light an […]
MySQL | 2008-01-25
Just Chill…Chilll Out, OK? There Ain’t No Devil in PDOv2A number of people have emailed me wondering why I haven’t blogged about the Sun/MySQL deal. Well, I’m still working out my thoughts on that, so I’ll leave it to […]
MySQL | 2007-08-03
YouTube Scaling Video – Cuong DoAlex forwarded me a link to an awesome scaling presentation by Cuong Do from YouTube about their architecture for scaling. He describes problems with massive scale-out, moving static content serving […]
MySQL | 2007-07-19
Interview with me on HowSoftwareIsBuilt.comA few weeks ago, I had a chance to speak with Scott Swigart about MySQL, open source, development and community challenges, and other stuff. He sent me a link to […]
DB Rambles | 2007-07-13
Congrats to the PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB/Sun Team for BenchmarksI wanted to write a quick shout-out to congratulate the PostgreSQL development team, the folks at Sun who work with Josh Berkus, and the folks at EnterpriseDB, all of whom […]
MySQL | 2007-06-15
Giving Tutorial at OSCON, July 23rd, Portland, OregonI will be giving a 3 hour tutorial on July 23rd at this year’s OSCON entitled “Target Practice: A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries“. If you attended my tutorial last […]