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Moving to MySQL
Starting in April I will be a member of the documentation team for MySQL. Among many other projects and responsibilities my main area of focus will be redeveloping on the connector documentation (i.e. the interfaces between MySQL and ODBC, JDBC, p…
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Building a Grid with Web Services, Part 4
Part 4 of the series Tyler and I have been writing showing you how to build a Grid using Web Services has appeared on IBM’s developerWorks site. Here’s the precis: The effective exchange of information is vital in any grid. In a resource-led grid …
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Gallery 2.0 Review
My review of Gallery 2.0, part of the ongoing hosting service FOSS technology series for Free Software Magazine, has now been published. From the intro: Sharing photos has become one of the more popular methods of sharing information on the intern…
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Merry Christmas
Best wishes of all the season to all my readers, visitors, associates, friends and family.
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Beyond The Big Three BSDs, BSD Alternatives
A while back I wrote an article for ServerWatch.com that covered the three main BSD distributions; FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. The article looked at the ‘other’ free software operating system range (BSD) and how it compared to Linux. I also looke…
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More New Blogs
As part of the ongoing expansion of the work that I do I am adding some further blogs to the range of titles and topics that I currently write about. Some of the new blogs are merely a way of sensibly dividing up the content I produce so that read…
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Sun Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation on the way
Laptop Solaris wast originally created to look at the use of Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris on a laptop to see how good an alternative it was to using Windows or Linux. By a strange convenience thought I’m going to be getting a genuine Sun Ultra 3 Mob…
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New Blog at Free Software Magazine
As if I didn’t have enough to do…. I’m now a blogger at Free Software Magazine. I’ve posted a little ‘Welcome, this is what I plan to do here’ piece as my first piece. The page for the blog is here, or you can subscribe to the RSS feed using thi…
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LinuxWorld Expo 2005 Report
I recently attended the LinuxWorld Expo 2005 here in London, UK on the 5th October. This was the first dedicated Linux show I’ve been to, and I have to say I was impressed. It was a lot smaller than I expected – about 60 stands – and some of the l…
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MySQL Storage Engines
One of the key reasons why MySQL is so flexible is because of the support for different storage engines. Rather than supporting a single method for storing information you can choose the optimal method for your database and application. But how do…