Monthly Archives: April 2007

MySQL Conference 2007

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Administrator

The MySQL Conference was held again at the Santa Clara Convention Center. As always, it was a great conference, with so many good talks in parallel tracks that it made choosing difficult. Here’s a link to the slides. The Santa … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Aviation Receives FAA Production Certificate

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Administrator

Congratulations to Eclipse Aviation on receiving an FAA production certificate! It means that they can build, sell and certify aircraft themself, without having the FAA inspect each aircraft before delivery – a time-consuming process. I believe they needed to fix … Continue reading →

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Google Releases MySQL Patches

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Administrator

At MySQLCamp, mention was made of a few Google internal patches to MySQL4 to improve replication and IO throughput on InnoDB (Mark Callaghan, ex-Oracle, did the InnoDB work). The good news is that Google has just released them. The license … Continue reading →

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Another Mac Security Patch Day

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Administrator

I have a MacBook Pro for web software testing. Today I fired up the Mac. Am I doing testing today? Nope. Just installing security updates. Luckily, I’m not relying on Mac OS X to be more secure than Windows, since … Continue reading →

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Small-Business USPS Tips

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Administrator

I happened to be at the Campbell Post Office during a quiet period and had a nice conversation with one of the counter employees. He had some interesting mailing observations and tips: Most of the people mailing in a tax … Continue reading →

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