MySQL Performance Blog
Good news for all Percona Software users out there. There are more ways how you can get access to Percona Software. If you’re using Scalr (See also Scalr Project on Google Code) you might be interested in Percona Server roles support Scalr team has…
28 April 2011MySQL Performance Blog
There are many ways to slice and aggregate metrics of activity on a system such as MySQL. In the best case, we want to know everything about the system’s activity: we want to know how many things happened, how big they were, and how long they took. We…
27 April 2011Planet Debian
26 April 2011Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, I little while ago I posted about some techniques to remove duplicate code when declaring instance variables (see DRYing your instance variables). When I wrote that post I had not managed…
26 April 2011Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, I was skimming through the Stanford iPhone course last night (see previous post) and watched lecture 3 on Objective-C. One statement that caught my eye (see page 12 of the lecture notes)…
22 April 2011Wired Top Stories
Apple's iOS 4 allows your iPhone to store location data constantly without you activating the feature. The unencrypted file where the data is stored was discovered and brought to light by software hackers. The data is stored on your computer when you sync…
21 April 2011inessential.com
Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad, a video presentation by Omni’s UX lead Bill Van Hecke, is very good. I’m watching it for the second time.
21 April 2011MacOSXHints.com
I just got the DTrace book from Amazon and wanted to get a list of providers for DTrace that OSX supports. (DTrace is a probe/profiling tool created by Sun that came with Mac OS X starting with Leopard.) So I played with dtrace -l until I got the output…
19 April 2011Planet Debian
19 April 2011MySQL Performance Blog
Often I run into problems when trying to use mk-query-digest with tcpdump on “very” busy hosts. You might be thinking, “very busy is a relative and unquantifiable term,” and you’d be right, so I’ll phrase this differently. Let me give a little background…
18 April 2011