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Keeping the Fiction Flowing
As I announced in my last blog post, I’m starting to publish all of my fiction through Patreon. There are two books I’m actively publishing right now: NAPE – a sci-fi story featuring a missing artificial intelligence. Kings Courier – a fantasy featuring a boy who is a courier and gets pulled into a deeper role…
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2015 is that way, 2016 is this way
The last year has been something of a change in direction in my life. Not only was it a year of a large number of ‘firsts’ for me, in all sorts of ways, I also changed a lot of what I was doing to better suit me. Actually that’s really important. 2015 turned out to be…
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5 Steps to Start Data Mining
I have a great guest blog on the basics of data mining over at SciTech Connect: 5 Steps to Start Data Mining – SciTech Connect | SciTech Connect.
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Upcoming Events
The next few weeks will be busy, and if you happen to be at any of the following events, let me know! Data Science London, 19th September DeNormalised NoSQL, 20th September Book Signing + Booth, O’Reilly Strata Conference, London, 1st October Couc…
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Moving from MySQL to CouchDB: Part 2
The follow-up blog post on moving your MySQL applications to CouchDB has been posted on the CouchOne blog. Part 2 digs into a bit more detail on the specifics of views, and how to perform some of the more common operations used in MySQL, such as p…
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Moving from MySQL to CouchDB: Part 1
I’ve started a little series on how to migrate your MySQL applications and databases over to CouchDB. Most of the process is about how you think about your data, not about the database itself, the application, or the interface to the database stor…
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Left MySQL/Joined CouchOne
For many people this will be old news, but I guess It thought I should put up something official. At the end of September, I left MySQL/Sun/Oracle – that wasn’t an easy decision, mostly because I loved my job. It’s difficult to stop doing somethin…
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Reorganizing the documentation
Those of you that know the documentation well will be aware of the old page we used to have for the MySQL documentation. It was huge, and over the years we’d done a number of things to try and improve the layout and make it easier to find what you…
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Adding Workflows to the Installation Guides
One of the elements that I have wanted to add to the installation chapter for some time has been some flowcharts to make understanding the steps required to successfully complete an installation on various platforms. The Windows one is the most in…
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Rebuilding the installation chapter
We have lots of things on the go right now (over and above the normal process of keeping things up to date), and one of the main projects for me is to do a complete rebuild of the installation chapter (Installing and Upgrading MySQL). I’ll be star…