The Official Google Blog
Hey—we've moved. Visit The Keyword for all the latest news and stories from Google Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture This week I sent a note to Googlers about some of the Chrome team's favorite extensions. So…
15 July 2010MySQL Performance Blog
So lets imagine you have the server handling 100.000 user accounts. You can see the CPU,IO and Network usage is below 10% of capacity – does it mean you can count on server being able to handle 1.000.000 of accounts ? Not really, and there are few…
14 July 2010MacOSXHints.com
Sometimes you need to Quick Look a file, but you're in Terminal or iTerm or something. If you're dealing with images, you want to see them before you do anything. But you don't want to use the open command. That's where qlmanage comes in.qlmanage is a CLI…
13 July 2010MacOSXHints.com
AppleJack has been updated to work with Snow Leopard with the release of version 1.6. In a nutshell, AppleJack is a command-line utility and series of scripts for running repair tasks in Single User Mode when a bootable startup disc in not available. It's…
13 July 2010Macworld
This freeware utility for creating a powerful troubleshooting drive gets a major upgrade that supports 10.6 Snow Leopard and Apple's latest Intel Macs.
13 July 2010MySQL Performance Blog
Recently we had couple posts dedicated to performance monitoring, i.e. Color code your performance numbers, Performance Optimization and Six Sigma, so you may understand we consider stability of performance numbers as one of important area for database…
12 July 2010MySQL Performance Blog
This post is the third of a series that started here. From the previous of this series, we now have two working EC2 instances that are EBS based. The first instance is the monitor, usually an m1.small type instance and the second instance is hamysql, a…
12 July 2010MySQL Performance Blog
I very much like the fact that MySQL allows you to embed comments into SQL statements. These comments are extremely convenient, because they are written into MySQL log files as part of the query. This includes the general log, the binary log and the slow…
6 July 2010TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Developer If you're looking for a simple and easy-to-follow introduction to iPhone 4's new backgrounding abilities, head on over to Oliver Drobnik's weblog and check out his latest write-up. You'll find a lovingly crafted graphic that walks…
6 July 2010MySQL Performance Blog
When examining MySQL configuration, we quite often want to know how various buffer sizes are used. This matters because some buffers (sort_buffer_size for example) are allocated to their full size immediately as soon as they are needed, but others are…
5 July 2010