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  • Joining Continuent

    I’ve just completed my first month here at Continuent, strangely back into the MySQL ecosystem which I have been working in for some time before I joined CouchOne, and then Couchbase, two and half years ago. Making the move back to MySQL is both an experience, and somehow, comfortable… Continuent produce technology that makes for…

  • Couchbase and Hadoop Article in Portuguese

    There is nothing cooler than finding that one of your articles has been translated into another language, and I just found out recently that my Using Hadoop with Couchbase article has been translated into Portuguese here: Usando o Hadoop com Couch…

  • UC2009: How I Used Query Analysis to Speed up My Applications

    The presentation slides for my Query Analysis talk here at the users conference are now available: How I Used Query Analysis to Speed up My Applications I’ll sort out the scripts and bits and pieces I use once I get back to the office next week, f…

  • UC2009: On the Starting Blocks

    Despite an annoying 3 hour flight delay from Heathrow (and no, I wasn’t connecting there, I was leaving from there), I’m here in San Francisco and Santa Clara again ready for the MySQL User Conference 2009. I obviously have my four presentations t…

  • MySQL Conf 2009 Preview: Scalability and HA Tutorial

    Like most people, and with just over a week to go before the conference, I’m putting the finishing touchs on my various presentations. First up for me, on Monday afternoon, is my tutorial: Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Availability: Solutions and …

  • Diarizing – what goes around, comes around

    OK, so I’ve just written about my love of Moleskines and it occurs to me that today’s bloggers (myself included) are just continuing a long tradition for some people to share their experiences. I write my memories in my Moleskines, not on a day to…

  • I love my Moleskine

    Not remotely related to computing at all, but I’ve just been updating my diaries, and I use Moleskine. I go everywhere with a Moleskine of some description (they’ve recently released some really tiny notebooks, which make it easier to carry your l…

  • MySQL on Solaris Best Practices Presentation

    A couple of weeks ago I was at the MySQL European Customer Conference in London, where I was presenting my talk on deploying MySQL on Solaris best practices. You can download a copy of the presentation here: MySQL on Solaris Best Practices. I cove…

  • BBC Quiz: Old computers

    The BBC has a great quiz on old computers, most of which I’m happy to admit that I have actually owned. Despite this I only 7 out of 10, but I still think that’s a respectable score.

  • MySQL Documentation Myths

    There are a few myths surrounding the MySQL documentation and how it works, and I thought I’d try and dispel some of those myths if I can. If you have any more questions or misunderstandings you want clarified, let me know. Myth: MySQL Documentati…