Author: C.J. Collier

  • Creating a Synchronization Management Scenario

    This is a follow-up to my earlier article on the MaxDB Synchronization Manager. In the months since my prior article, the Synchronization Manager has proved itself production ready and capable of replicating real-world databases in demanding scenarios. Take the following as theoretical and emperical examples of such scenarios (not necessarily in that order): i) For…

  • Aggregated at adoppt

    My Blog at Adoppt

  • Have I mentioned Perl yet? No…

    I write and enjoy Perl. If you want to know how to write Perl, let me know, and I’ll try to schedule some time to learn you what I know…

  • libtao-opengl-cil has been packaged for Dapper!

    Wow! lurfagrin made my tao dist packages into .deb packages! http://colliertech.com/downloads/tao/ If you’re running Ubuntu Dapper Drake, you can install libtao-opengl-cil using this command: $ sudo apt-get install libtao-opengl-cil This is one of the pre-requisites to building gtkglarea-sharp. Thank you thank you thank you!

  • On vacation

    So. I’m on vacation. But I’m thinking a bit about work-related stuff, like Raimi’s MySQL-related blog entries: http://www.lkcc.org/~raimi/nb/archives/cat_9/ In case any of you out there read German. I know enough to figure out that he’s got a link to me in it :) Mark Thomas has created a blog as well. http://blog.theoupneustos.com/?cat=2

  • Building a domU with debootstrap

    http://www.option-c.com/xwiki/Create_a_Debian_VM_with_debootstrap

  • Sun server… incoming…

    Holy crap. Sun is sending me hardware for a try-n-buy thing. They say they’ll ship it in about 10 days. I wonder how disappointed they’re going to be when I wipe the OS they ship with it and install Sarge… Thanks to Ask for the tip. Now… how am I going to make this thing…

  • Planet MaxDB, MaxDB Project

    Well, I set up an aggregator for folks who blog about MaxDB. If you are one of these folks, please email anybody who is aggregated at Planet MaxDB, or join us on #maxdb on irc.freenode.org I am using the monologue code to aggregate the blog feeds, and while I was altering the default template, I…

  • Customer’s experience with Sync Manager

    14:34 < MThomas> Time to install and configure Sync Manager in development environment: 4 days, one of which was 15 hours long. Time to install and configure in production: 30 minutes. I’ve written a bit of documentation that might help you get things running in the same way: http://wiki.colliertech.org/index.php/MaxDB:Installation http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/syncman/part1.html Create a Synchronization Scenario

  • 150 million and counting! | Spread Firefox

    150 million and counting! | Spread Firefox Over 150 Million downloads of my homies’ web browser. You should download it, too.