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MySQL University: MySQL and ZFS
I didn’t announce it last week, but I did a MySQL University presentation on using MySQL with the ZFS filesystem. ZFS is the main filesystem for Solaris/OpenSolaris and offers a number of different benefits for people using MySQL, including some i…
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Feeding Query Analyzer from DTrace
One of the new features in the new release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor is Query Analyzer. As the name suggests, the Query Analyzer provides information about the queries that are running on your server, the response times and row and byte statisti…
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Podcast Producer Variables
The first of a new series of articles on using and extending the functionality of Apple’s Podcast Producer has just been published (see Podcast Producer: Anatomy of a Workflow). One of the things that you might find useful when working with Workfl…
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Photo blogging with the K800i
As planned, I got a K800i earlier this week, and it’s taken me the best part of the week to try and sort out all of the different elements. I already did a quick post on Convergence in mobile phones with the SE K800i at ComputerWorld, but I though…
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Writing text parsers with yacc and lex
Lex and yacc are two tools that you may be aware of, but have maybe never used. They are key components to compilers, configuration tools and many different languages, where the ability to parse text and generate some other output (assembly code, …
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MCslp Coalface is live
I’ve started up a new blog designed to handle the day-to-day thoughts and issues, programming notes, IT tricks and so on that I come across (and use/develop) each day. Called MCslp Coalface, the blog is designed to contain the issues and notes tha…
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Cheffy goes live!
Over the years many of you will have heard me mention things like Foodware, Cheffy and Foodies. All names for essentially the same thing, a recipe site that does more than just provide you with a simple way of finding recipes. Today, 18th December…
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Optimization Tart
I’ve really agreed with the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix’ line of thinking. I think there are a number of reasons for that, but the primary one is that my world and environment is constantly changing and therefore the chances of a component or si…
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Working from home with SaRAH
Working from home is seen as the utopia for many (certainly I enjoy it), but I’m also aware that providing users with the technology and the capability to let them do their job effectively is just as difficult. In the bad old days we used modems a…