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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…
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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!
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Interaction
Hey all. Please comment on this entry. I’m trying to get an idea of who’s listening to what I say. Why do you read this blog? Are you interested in community wireless networks? OpenGL development on Linux? Family? Business Intelligence? Synchronizaton Manager news? Freecycle™ development? Random Perl bits? Something else I’ve forgotten about? I’m finding…
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New release of MaxDB: 7.6.00.27
I’m happy to announce new releases of MaxDB 7.6. The Devs have put a lot of time and energy into this release and it addresses many issues. Take a look through the Change Log for some details. Grab a copy of the new release here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/maxdb/7.6.00.html
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Contributed to PeterZ’s talk at MySQL UC 2006
Hey, look! Peter mentioned me in his presentation at the UC this year. UC2006-MySQL-Performance-Landscape.pdf I let him use the Sunfire T2000 I borrowed from Sun (which I should return today) to generate some statistics for the talk.