MySQL Performance Blog
This post is the second of a series that started here. The first step to build the HA solution is to create two working instances, configure them to be EBS based and create a security group for them. A third instance, the client, will be discussed in…
29 June 2010Macworld
A Hong Kong-based firm has released a suite of templates designed specifically for use with the iPad version of Apple's word processing app.
29 June 2010Planet Debian
The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP directory in Debian Edu, and in the process I started to miss a GUI tool to browse the LDAP tree. The only one I was able to find in Debian/Squeeze and Lenny is LUMA, which has proved to…
28 June 2010Planet GNOME
28 June 2010Planet Debian
From time to time I find myself using git-svn with projects using subversion, this is all nice and fine but it takes quite some time to do the ''initial import'' if you are doing it over a remote transport such as ssh+svn. One trick to speed things up is…
28 June 2010inessential.com
I’ve noticed, in looking at other people’s Cocoa code over the years, that sometimes people still do weird things with retain, release, and autorelease — as if they’re not quite sure on the basics of memory management yet. So I thought I’d talk about how I…
28 June 2010Macworld
Now available as a native app on the iPad as well as the iPhone, Stanza certainly differs from other e-readers out there -- most notably Kindle and iBooks. While the app has some minor flaws, it still offers a pleasant reading experience.
28 June 2010Macworld
Steve Jobs's keynotes and Apple's product pages have a finite amount of space with which to tout what's new in iOS 4. These are the new features and polish that didn't make the cut, but may still make someone's day.
24 June 2010Planet Mozilla
This is a guest post from Tomas Barreto, a developer who works at box.net. They recently adopted HTML5 drag and drop as a way to share files with other people using new features in Firefox. The included video is a pitch for the feature and service, but…
23 June 2010Wired Top Stories
The App Store and the Android marketplace are attractive lures for developers, but apps built to run on the mobile web can still impress. We take a look at the best frameworks available for mobile-web developers.
18 June 2010