MySQL Performance Blog
I recently worked on an uncommon slow query: less than 100 rows were read and returned, the whole dataset was fitting in memory but the query took several seconds to run. Long story short: the query was a join involving 21 tables, running on MySQL 5.1. But…
6 March 2014Slashdot
kc123 writes "In an effort to deal with copyright infringement Getty Images is launching a new embedding feature that will make more than 35 million images freely available to anyone for non-commercial usage. Anyone will be able to visit Getty Images'…
6 March 2014inessential.com
I’ve written three blogging systems. At UserLand I wrote Manila, which powered editthispage.com and a few other sites way back in the ’90s and early ’00s. I’ve written two more just for my own use. The first, PHP/MySQL-based, powered this site for seven…
6 March 2014Planet Mozilla
6 March 2014Planet Mozilla
Last week I built a little tools called github-pr-triage. It's a single page app that sits on top of the wonderful GitHub API v3. Its goal is to try to get an overview of what needs to happen next to open pull requests. Or rather, what needs to happen…
6 March 2014Planet Debian
I used to use Fetchmail and Gnus with its mail splitting capabilites and nnml backend to handle my private mail setup for many years. This worked pretty fine since I am used to accessing my home server through SSH. I have Gnus running inside of a GNU…
4 March 2014MySQL Performance Blog
MySQL software developers are under pressure to do more in less time and create applications that adapt to ever-changing requirements. And it’s true that some of a developer’s time is wasted when his or her method of optimizing involves trying every…
28 February 2014MySQL Performance Blog
The MySQL client has some functionalities some of us never use. Why would you use them and what is the added value of this? Every DBA and developer has had a moment when he or she needs to connect to a MySQL database using the command line tool. Therefore…
27 February 2014Slashdot
badger.foo writes "Have you ever wanted to know what's really going on in your network? Some free tools with surprising origins can help you to an almost frightening degree. Peter Hansteen shares some monitoring insights, anecdotes and practical advice in…
27 February 2014Planet Mozilla
The YUIConf folks have just posted their recording of a talk I gave there last year. I had planned to talk generally about the Firefox Marketplace, how it differs from other app stores, and how those differences create an overall … Continue reading →
27 February 2014