MySQL Performance Blog
Prior to version 5.0, MySQL could only use one index per table in a given query without any exceptions; folks that didn’t understand this limitation would often have tables with lots of single-column indexes on columns which commonly appeared in their…
14 December 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
With the well-hyped release of the new Google Maps app came the quieter announcement that the company is also releasing a Google Maps SDK for iOS. The SDK allows app developers to prefer in-app Google Maps instead of Apple's iOS 6 maps. The SDK will also…
13 December 2012Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
In addition to releasing its own Google Maps app for iOS, Google is now offering up its improved, vector-based maps to iOS developers looking for an alternative to Apple's at-times flawed data. Developers can essentially replace Apple's native MapKit APIs…
13 December 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
12 December 2012LWN.net
Linus has released the 3.7 kernel. "Anyway, it's been a somewhat drawn out release despite the 3.7 merge window having otherwise appeared pretty straightforward, and none of the rc's were all that big either. But we're done, and this means that the merge…
11 December 2012Planet GNOME
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing with a Jenkins installation at jenkins.openismus.com, building some of the Openismus projects. Here are some notes about my experience. This runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. Initial installation was…
10 December 2012Planet Mozilla
Building Resilient Systems on AWS: Learn how to design and implement a resilient, highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure on AWS. One of my favorite social APIs was the Open Graph API adopted by Facebook. Adding just a few META tags to each page…
10 December 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
10 December 2012Slashdot
Michael Ross writes "Since its introduction in 1994, JavaScript has largely been utilized within web browsers, which limited JavaScript programmers to client-side development. Yet with the recent introduction of Node.js, those programmers can leverage…
10 December 2012Planet Mozilla
Since version 1.0, UpShot supports using your own custom domain name to share your screenshots via Dropbox. However, you have to do some work on the server side to make it happen. Here are two ways to point your own, custom domain at your public Dropbox…
9 December 2012