learninggeneralist — If you've owned a prosumer camera or a DSLR/ SLT, you may have seen the histogram display on your camera. It may have even left you confused. One of the more ignored tools in your arsenal, the histogram is a great diagnostic for your image. Taken step further, it's also...
thinkvitamin — Greetings, folks! If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest Rails news, we have a new version! Ruby on Rails 3.2.1 has recently been released with some very welcome changes! Faster development mode – Rails now only reloads the classes you’ve actually changed between requests in development mode. Explain queries –...
blog.jonudell — In yesterday’s Keene Sentinel guest editorial, YES: Press for more domestic oil, Andrew Morriss consistently misreports oil production figures. Saudi Arabia: 8.1 billion barrels/day; Russia: 10.4 billion; America: 7.9 billion; Iran: 3.7 billion. Those numbers struck me as wrong by orders of magnitude. So I consulted my favorite online scientific...
fromdual — In my set-ups I have different MySQL versions (MySQL 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 and 5.6, Percona Server 13.1 and 24.0, MariaDB 5.2.10, 5.3.3, Galera 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0) running in parallel at the same time. Up to now I have not found a practical way yet to do this with RPM or...
thedailywtf — "We're replacing an old PHP website," writes Roggo, "to examine the existing functinoality and test the install, we were given access to the live site. Out of curiosity, I had a look at the code that we are soon to replace. The first file I opened was called mug_password_forgotten.php; I...
code.openark — Introducing QueryScript: a programming language aimed for SQL scripting, seamlessly combining scripting power such as flow control & variables with standard SQL statements or RDBMS-specific commands. QueryScript is available fro MySQL via common_schema, which adds MySQL-specific usage. What does QueryScript look like? Here are a few code samples: Turn a bulk DELETE operation...
buildstarted — Ben Dornis blogs about a JavaScript templating system using Razor syntax. This allows for rendering the view on the server and updating it via Ajax - slick!
xaprb — I’m scheduled to deliver several free MySQL webinars via Percona and ODTUG in the upcoming weeks. I hope you can join me: February 16 – Verifying Replication Integrity with Percona Toolkit via ODTUG. February 22 – EXPLAIN Demystified via Percona. March 14 – Optimizing MySQL Configuration via Percona. Further Reading:Free webinar Wednesday: verifying replication...
sqlhjalp.blogspot — A big thanks to Xiaobin Lin for taking the time to submit and the related patch for bug #64248. It could be available in MySQL 5.5.20. This should help users to restore their database faster thanks to fast index creation. More information is available via the bugs page....
thinkvitamin — In this 6 minute video, we will get you started with iOS development by learning about the benefits of Apple’s iOS Dev center and how to gain access to the integrated development environment (IDE) called Xcode. This video is from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos on...
thoughtworks — This weekend, ThoughtWorks is hold a recruiting event in New York City. The idea is to compress the whole recruiting cycle down to a single weekend. The coding problem will be on Saturday, and those that pass that hurdle will be invited back for interviews on Sunday. The idea is...
lambda-the-ultimate — It's from Twitter, It's open source, It's about Scala. What's not to like?
martinfowler — Pramod and I have put together a short infodeck (pdf) outlining the reasons why NoSQL databases are an important new dish on the software development menu. It’s directed at non-technical managers and customers to provide an outline of why the data world has seen this new entrant and some direction...
jonathanlevin.co.uk — In relation to this MPB post, there is a command to output data into a file and then to load it back into MySQL to resolve locks. (An example of a really big reporting query that could be quite heavy, can be found here.) There is an issue with outputting data into a...
mysqldba.blogspot — My technology stack services more then 2 Million Daily Active users. Its very basic. PHP talks to mySQL, Memcache, RabbitMQ, Gearman and Facebook. Now that we have more Java specifically to support our SmartFox Server and other services, blurring the lines between what data is set in PHP and what data is...
johndcook — This evening I watched my daughter in Fiddler on the Roof. I thought I knew the play pretty well, but I learned something tonight. Before the play started, someone told me that the phrase “bidi-bidi-bum” in “If I Were a Rich Man” is a Yiddish term for prayer. I thought “All...
thinkvitamin — Lo and behold, Mr. Dan Cederholm has done it again! This time the folks over at SimpleBits unveiled their latest project, Pears, an open source WordPress theme that enables you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly. This is super helpful to collect, test and experiment with your...
mysqlperformanceblog — We’ve released Percona Toolkit 2.0.3, with a couple of major improvements and many minor ones. You can download it, read the documentation, and get support for it. What’s new? You can read the changelog for the details, but here are the highlights: Brand new pt-diskstats, thanks to Brian Fraser. This tool...
openlife.cc — Usually people do this around New Year, I will do it in February. Actually, I was inspired to do this after reviewing all the talks for this year's MySQL Conference - what a snapshot into the state of where we are! It made me realize we've made important progress in...
xaprb — Are you involved with an open-source project that’s interesting to MySQL users, such as Nginx, PHPMyAdmin, Drupal, Jenkins, PHP, and so on? Percona just published the application form for dot-org groups to have a free expo hall booth in the Percona Live MySQL Conference in April. Please submit...
thinkvitamin — Lo and behold, Mr. Dan Cederholm has done it again! This time the folks over at SimpleBits unveiled their latest project, Pears, an open source WordPress theme that enables you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly. This is super helpful to collect, test and experiment with your...
tokutek — While it might not have been New England’s weekend on the Big Gridiron, it was certainly New England’s day for Big Data at the New England Database Summit on Friday at MIT. The summit was well attended, with 350 registrants and keynotes from prominent MySQL users such as Mark Callaghan. The...
thinkvitamin — If you caught Ryan’s article last week, he told you about our brand new, not to be missed Vegas event – Future Insights Live! We’ve combined the Future of Web Apps, Design and Mobile into one massive five day event all geared toward you! Whether you’re a Web Designer,...
blogs.msdn — matushorvath was curious about the WINA20.386 file that came with some versions of MS-DOS. The WINA20.386 file predates my involvement, but I was able to find some information on the Internet that explained what it was for. And it's right there in KB article Q68655: Windows 3.0 Enhanced Mode Requires WINA20.386: Windows 3.0 Enhanced Mode Requires WINA20.386 Windows 3.0...
mysqlperformanceblog — February is going to be a busy meetup month for me. In addition to speaking in Raleigh I will visit Charlotte to speak at Meetup out there on February 23rd. Last year I visited Charlotte meetup was in the great place and we had great food and great crowd...