Category: work

  • New code at amazon.com

    Yay! The RSS Feed link in the plog finally shipped. :) 20:53 < cj> anybody wanna see something cool? 20:53 < toshok> nah, cool is overrated 20:54 < cj> http://www.amazon.com/gp/plog/post.html/ref=cm_blog_pl/104-6510586-3093500?ie=UTF8&pt=personalBlog&aid=PlogMyCustomersAgent&ot=customer&pd=1155228951.912&pid=PMCA19STJZD8MHMJEat1155228837&iid=A19STJZD8MHMJE 20:55 < cj> or, better yet… 20:55 < cj> http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/id/A19STJZD8MHMJE/ref=cm_blog_blog/104-6510586-3093500 20:55 < cj> click on the “add to your plog” button. it’s orange and on…

  • My work blog

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  • Look! We’re getting press…

    http://www.ok-cancel.com/comic/150.html

  • Amazon starts its own toy store

    So… a couple of years ago, when I first worked at Amazon, we had been working with a certain toy company to help them get their products online. Something didn’t work out, so now Amazon has its own online toy store! See the press release for more details. Well done, folks! Keep up the good…

  • Bye bye norseth

    cjcollier@norseth:~/Desktop$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 Time to return the computer to MySQL Thanks for letting me keep it long enough to clean it up, folks!

  • State of the C.J. – 20060625

    C.J. Blathers about recent major changes in his life. https://colliertech.com/~cjcollier/confidential/sateOfTheCJ20060625.ogg https://colliertech.com/~cjcollier/confidential/sateOfTheCJ20060625.mp3 Mail me for credentials.

  • Wall Street Cred

    So… I don’t normally read the Wall Street Journal, but I was sitting in a waiting room for a few hours yesterday and the security guard, noticing that I was bored, brought me a copy. I read the table of contents and browsed to an article on network neutrality. For those of you who didn’t…

  • Shaking things up

    It’s been a hectic week, and it’s only Tuesday. My wife and I recently made a decision to move on from MySQL. My passion is software development, and my experience doesn’t lend itself well to database development. Therefore, I’m returning to Amazon on Monday, if my intel is correct. Through a strange series of coincidences,…

  • New release of DBD::mysql (v3.0004)

    Patrick released a new version of the perl MySQL connector. This .pm was my introduction to the mysql world, way back in the day. If you can program your way out of a perl brown paper bag and you haven’t used this tool yet, I recommend you write a hello world program to get familiar…

  • MaxDB Synchronization Manager User Report

    United Drugs had occasion to use the Synchronization Manager in production at this year’s convention. Mark Thomas (of United Drugs) and the MaxDB team at MySQL have been getting a use case document together to present the experiences. We had a great deal of help from the SyncMan dev team at SAP Berlin and Chris…