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SphinxSearch Day in Santa Clara 2012

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Administrator

“Sphinx Search Day and SkySQL & MariaDB Solutions Day and Drizzle Day” was held today in Santa Clara. I couldn’t make it this time, but wanted to collect the links in one place for future reference. (I did attend Andrew’s … Continue reading →

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Percona Live MySQL Conference And Expo 2012

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Administrator

The MySQL Conference was held once again at the Santa Clara Convention Center, but hosted by Percona this year. Percona did a great job of organizing the show on fairly short notice, with a good program, full exhibits area, and … Continue reading →

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DIA Emergency Radio Call Confusion

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Administrator

Unfortunately, non-standard aviation radio phraseology resulted in a mishandled emergency at DIA on April 3 between United Express Flight 5912 and ATC. The pilot excitedly reported smoke in the cockpit and requested “roll trucks please.” ATC couldn’t identify the plane … Continue reading →

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Google Chart Tools and Visualization API Notes

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Administrator

Google Chart Tools/Visualization API is a feature-rich graphing tool for programmers and UI designers to play with. Some notes: Chart Tools can be used to create interactive graphical charts and text tables with clickable and sortable elements the results are … Continue reading →

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Silicon Valley Perl Mongers: Continuous Integration using Jenkins

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Administrator

Joe McMahon of White Hat Security talked about “Continuous Integration using Jenkins” tonite. Joe spent about half the time discussing Perl test harnesses (Test::More, Test::WWW::Selenium, Devel::Cover, etc.) and the other half on Jenkins CI. Although Perl scripts are run by … Continue reading →

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