Omniture, one of the hottest companies not located in Silicon
Valley, is expected to go public later this week, raising close
to $100 million in proceeds. Omniture provides online web
and business analytic software to companies like AOL, Apple, eBay
and Ford. Omniture runs thousands of MySQL servers
in order to scale out their business.
“There?s no shortage of smart, employable IT workers. There is a shortage of flexible employers who are willing to hire people who don?t match an exact, niche profile or have a very specific skill or type of experience.”
I’m not sure I agree with her, just like there really is no shortage for skilled workers, there are a lot of companies that are willing to train and mentor. What’s happening is that the people who need to be trained/mentored are asking for salaries that would say they don’t need to be trained and mentored. The companies that are crying about the shortage, usually don’t pay well enough, or are in not so prime locations anymore. A company wants to pay 2001 prices for someone with 10 yrs of experience, in an area that is over priced real estate wise, or the commute to the office is horrible, this prevents the qualified, highly skilled people to not want to work.
When I lived in …
[Read more]What a nice event the PHP Vikinger has been! Go Vikingers, conquer the world and carry the idea of an unconference into the PHP world. Infect user groups and other community members. Make them feel the power of Thor - as Zak puts it.
You all know what a conference can be like. It can be somewhat like watching TV. At some point of the day, you sit down in an armchair, have a beer or a granita and consume the show from the different channels that you like best. You know which show to watch from the program of the day that you can find in the program guide which has been published weeks ago. Once the show is over, you flip to a different channel and continue starring at the TV box. After some time you usually end up complaining about the crappy program. You ask yourself why it is so difficult to create a good …
[Read more]What a nice event the PHP Vikinger has been! Go Vikingers, conquer the world and carry the idea of an unconference into the PHP world. Infect user groups and other community members. Make them feel the power of Thor - as Zak puts it.
You all know what a conference can be like. It can be somewhat like watching TV. At some point of the day, you sit down in an armchair, have a beer or a granita and consume the show from the different channels that you like best. You know which show to watch from the program of the day that you can find in the program guide which has been published weeks ago. Once the show is over, you flip to a different channel and continue starring at the TV box. After some time you usually end up complaining about the crappy program. You ask yourself why it is so difficult to create a good …
[Read more]Watching the World Cup this year (and yes, I've watched many of the matches - last night's Switzerland vs. Ukraine match took years from my life - it was the essence of boredom), I've been reminded at how differently teams can play the same game. England with its obnoxious long balls into Peter Crouch. France with...well, so far, with nothing. Argentina with its flair and momentum.
Italy, however, takes "difference" to a new level. From today's The Times:
Italy’s method is rooted in pessimism. Ask an Italian whether the glass is half-full or half-empty and he is liable to reply that it is poisoned. Ask an Australian and he will ask if it is a free bar.The Italian I know best - Fabrizio - is no pessimist (He's taking on one of the most interesting and sexy markets on the planet), but the football/soccer he watches certainly is: …
[Read more]The method I would like to describe is based on the webserver lighttpd.
Lighttpd is a single process webserver written for high traffic sites. It supports fast-cgi out of the box which makes it ideal for hosting PHP applications. There are lots of nice modules for the daily work like mod_access or mod_rewrite. For more infos see the internals
There are also some benchmarks there. Lighty´s home is always worth having a look at.
In the laundry list of items I did today, I pulled the sphinx
storage engine code that was just released. I had seen a blog
post on its release and I wanted to see how the developers had
implemented it.
I have not yet tried the code, I just read through it to see how
they implemented it. I had been curious to see how they would do
this, since the fulltext code in MySQL is not very well exposed
in the storage engine interface (a bit better in 5.1, but not
perfect). They took the approach of using a special field in the
schema to pass along search queries. This means that you will
have to define your tables in exactly their schema format (much
how the ha_httplog engine works, though it has a slightly more
flexible approach to schema). They reused the Federated
connection field to determine location, and did the correct thing
of extending the URL mechanism that Federated uses.
They pass the query by identifying the "query" …
So once a week I pull roughly 250,000 RSS feeds in a single
snapshot. Its not consistent and only represents what a slice of
blogosphere has published at any given time. I've polled websites
for years, and more recently URLs/RSS. An article on Business 2.0
got me interested in breaking up the entries by individual word.
I was curious to just see how often some words were being
mentioned. The Business 2.0 article was on who and what you
should not being putting your attention into. It had the
"Slashdot is out, and Digg" is in comment.
While I think Digg is a great site, I just do not buy the work
Jeremy pointed out on Slashdot vs Digg. Digg may be growing, but
I believe that its relevancy is not as high as Slashdot's. I also
think that do to the nature of it being an open site with no
editorial, eventually it will water down its own effect by being
to broad.
The numbers:
mysql> select word_id, word, …
MySQL AB, the developer of the worldâ??s most popular open source database, today announced its participation in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program as an Alliance-level partner. With over 240 members, Microsoftâ??s VSIP program gives partners the tools and resources they need to successfully integrate their tools, components and services into the Visual Studio 2005 development environment.
C.J. Blathers about recent major changes in his life.
https://colliertech.com/~cjcollier/confidential/sateOfTheCJ20060625.ogg
https://colliertech.com/~cjcollier/confidential/sateOfTheCJ20060625.mp3
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