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Opening up comments (thanks Akismet)
For a long time I disabled comments on the site because I received a huge amount of comment spam. I’ve been running with Akismet now for months (and filtered over 11,000 items in the process), so I’m going to open up the site for comments. You’re …
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Picking a phone based on its case
I’m in the market for a new phone, but I’m sadly addicted to Vaja leather cases, and they don’t have a case available for all phones. This is strangely limiting my choice – if I can’t find a Vaja case, I’m less inclined to buy the phone. My curren…
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Another day, another thunderstorm, another Internet disconnect
In the height of the British summer, we are having some cold weather and, for the last few days, heavy thunderstorms. I’m no fan of the sun, but the thunderstorms cause connectivity problems for me, and that disconnects me from the Internet for a …
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Parallels blogs my Solaris/Parallels post
The team over at Parallels noticed my Working with Solaris 10 in Parallels Desktop piece over on Coalface, and had a few nice words to say about me. In particular: For those of you unfamiliar with Martin, he’s a well respected tech journalist who …
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Apple sacrilege
For some reason, this Rudy Park cartoon really resonates with me.
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Multiple search
I think it was a post by Robert Scoble that put me onto this, but gada.be. The site goes away and searches a number of other search engines to give you some top responses. Quite interesting…try running these and check the results: Martin C Brown…
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Major rewrite of C/ODBC completed
One of my first major tasks at MySQL has just been completed – a major rewrite of the Connector/ODBC (C/ODBC) documentation. There were three major focuses for the rewrite: Bring the documentation up to date. We had a mix of information on the lat…
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Perl/Eclipse tutorials picked for top 27
My Building Perl Applications and Debugging Perl Applications with Eclipse tutorials have been picked in a list of the top 27 Eclipse tutorials. You can see the full list here.
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Dell: Solaris not a standard
Judy Chavis has stated that Dell won’t look at supporting, or providing, Solaris on their equipment until Solaris becomes the next industry standard OS – I quote from here: “Is it the next industry standard around operating systems? That’s what it…
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One worker in one country
A recent article at CNN talks about how MySQL operates. As one of the MySQL team, I can attest that works, but it requires a significant amount of coordination, and lots of online communication through email, IRC, Skype and other methods to keep e…