Today at 1PM EST I am presenting the second part of memcached for MySQL webinar. I was told that the registration numbers look as good as the previous one. This one will be a bit more technical than the previous webinar. Sorry for the late notice but hope you can join!

While reading my RSS feeds this morning I picked up this:
YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom

After Scientology's DMCA request on Slashdot we made an active choice to squash data on users to limit the possibility of this sort of request. We randomized incoming trackable data on users and tossed everything but aggregate data for long term storage.

Why?

For one, we simply did not need to keep terabytes of log data sitting around collecting dust. Secondly, while the data might be useful for determining trends we risked our user's privacy. We believed this was unacceptable. One court request and we could be handing over who knows what to any company that could find an uneducated judge to sign away the privacy of …

SELECT ... FROM
tblProduct as prd FORCE INDEX(vProductName,iCategoryId,eProductType,vProductImage,fPrice,eProductStatus,dProductDateAdded)
LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT bidjoin.* FROM tblProduct as prdjoin, tblBid as bidjoin WHERE bidjoin.iProductId = prdjoin.iProductId) bid ON prd.iProductId = bid.iProductId
, tblCategory as cat FORCE INDEX(vCategoryName,eCategoryStatus,dCategoryDateAdded) 
, tblAuctionProduct as aucprd FORCE INDEX(iRequiredBids,iProductId,eAuctionType,iFreeBidLevel,fAdminFee,dDateClosed)
, tblPurchaseProduct as purprd FORCE INDEX(dProductCloseDate,iProductId,iTotalInventory,dLastUpdated)

I know, unreadable. But the main issue today is the FORCE INDEX. This is just one query (real, with permission - I just adjusted some identifiers) from an app that is litterally full of queries using FORCE INDEX. So what does FORCE INDEX do? It forces the MySQL optimiser to use the specified index (or choose from one of the specified, if multiple), …

Mike is asking I`m hoping that MySQL stored procedures will work properly. Especially multiple calls in one request. in reply to PDO_MYSQLND: R[a|u]mbling and a breeze of progress. Mike, it depends what you mean by "properly". If you use the API properly it works fine with mysqlnd. Read on for code examples.

Mike is asking I`m hoping that MySQL stored procedures will work properly. Especially multiple calls in one request. in reply to PDO_MYSQLND: R[a|u]mbling and a breeze of progress. Mike, it depends what you mean by "properly". If you use the API properly it works fine with mysqlnd. Read on for code examples.

Mike is asking I`m hoping that MySQL stored procedures will work properly. Especially multiple calls in one request. in reply to PDO_MYSQLND: R[a|u]mbling and a breeze of progress. Mike, it depends what you mean by "properly". If you use the API properly it works fine with mysqlnd. Read on for code examples.

So, I am working on MemProxy some.  Mainly, I am trying to implement more of the Cache-Control header's many options.  The one that has me a bit perplexed s-maxage.  Particularly when combined with max-age.

s-maxage is the maximum time in seconds an item should remain in a shared cache.  So, if s-maxage is set by the application server, my proxy should keep it for that amount of time at the most.  Up until now, I have just been looking at max-age.  But, s-maxage is the proper one for a proxy to use if it is present.  I do not send the s-maxage through because this is a reverse proxy and, IMO, that is proper behavior for an application accelerating proxy.  However, I do send forward the max-age value that is set by the application servers.  If no max-age is set, I send a default as defined in the script.  Also, if no-cache …

I've been getting lots of inquiries from recruiters recently looking to find good people for various tech companies. Two in particular might be interesting if you're in the market or know someone who is.

Technology Evangelist at New York City Based Startup

If you saw Fred Wilson's post Are You A Connector?, you know a bit about this job already. It's a NYC based startup developing a new platform in an area that's likely to see serious growth in the next few years.

They're looking for someone with coding experience who loves showing other developers and users how stuff works: on stage, via blogs, in screencasts, and so on. It's important that this person have a technical (programming) background and also be very comfortable getting in front of people to demo and speak.

The company is New York based and this job is too. However, …

Project: MySQL Forge RSS/Atom feeds

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS LAST WEEK

* Integrated the RSS/Atom feeds on the website.
* Agreed on what to do next after finishing the feeds (Extending PHPUnit test coverage)
* Found some items for the ToDo list (functionality on the Forge which isn't complete working at the moment)

KEY TASKS THAT STALLED LAST WEEK

* Commit changes to main branch. I found out that the feeds who are generated aren't 100% valid with the RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom specifications so I have to fix this before committing the extension to the branch.

KEY CONCERNS
* None

TASKS IN THE UPCOMING WEEK

* Finishing the RSS/Atom feeds and merging them with the BZR branch.
* Reading the PHPUnit documentation.
* Installing PHPUnit and exercise with the functionality.

more intuitive script names
One of …