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Beginning MySQL Database Design and Optimization
Getting the design of your database right has a huge impact on a number of issues. Primarily performance, but it can also affect other areas like the flexibility of your database and how it integrates with the application-level solution, such as P…
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LAMP Oil: The RSS Problem
LAMP Oil is a new blog and column, under the auspices of LinuxWorld, is where I’ll be looking at, and hopefully fuelling the fires of, LAMP technology and developers. In the first article I look at something that is going to affect the very site y…
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Sun v40z Review at LinuxWorld
“With their Sun Fire V40z Server, Sun is moving into new realms in three different ways. First, it’s a move onto a new hardware platform – namely the AMD Opteron CPU. Second, it’s a move into the 64-bit arena on a platform other than their familia…
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The RSS Problem
Note: This post was originally part of my LinuxWorld blog; now migrated here after my resignation. There has been much talk recently of the problems of RSS and the popularity of the news aggregation solution starting to cause bandwidth problems wi…