I talked about Microformats in a post last year on web20expo. It appears that the technology is now going main stream. I attended a workshop on Web2.0 Best Practices at the Web20 Expo this week in which the speaker, Niall Kennedy expounded on th advantages of using microformats. He said he's seen a significant growth in traffic on his site since he started doing so since search engine results show direct links to pages on his site.
Yahoo is adding microformats to many of their properties. The yahoo event site already has them. This is …

I talked about Microformats in a post last year on web20expo. It appears that the technology is now going main stream. I attended a workshop on Web2.0 Best Practices at the Web20 Expo this week in which the speaker, Niall Kennedy expounded on th advantages of using microformats. He said he's seen a significant growth in traffic on his site since he started doing so since search engine results show direct links to pages on his site.
Yahoo is adding microformats to many of their properties. The yahoo event site already has them. This is …

I talked about Microformats in a post last year on web20expo. It appears that the technology is now going main stream. I attended a workshop on Web2.0 Best Practices at the Web20 Expo this week in which the speaker, Niall Kennedy expounded on th advantages of using microformats. He said he's seen a significant growth in traffic on his site since he started doing so since search engine results show direct links to pages on his site.
Yahoo is adding microformats to many of their properties. The yahoo event site already has them. This is …

I talked about Microformats in a post last year on web20expo. It appears that the technology is now going main stream. I attended a workshop on Web2.0 Best Practices at the Web20 Expo this week in which the speaker, Niall Kennedy expounded on th advantages of using microformats. He said he's seen a significant growth in traffic on his site since he started doing so since search engine results show direct links to pages on his site.
Yahoo is adding microformats to many of their properties. The yahoo event site already has them. This is …

I talked about Microformats in a post last year on web20expo. It appears that the technology is now going main stream. I attended a workshop on Web2.0 Best Practices at the Web20 Expo this week in which the speaker, Niall Kennedy expounded on th advantages of using microformats. He said he's seen a significant growth in traffic on his site since he started doing so since search engine results show direct links to pages on his site.
Yahoo is adding microformats to many of their properties. The yahoo event site already has them. This is …

While being subscribed to the full blogs.sun.com feed certainly feels like drinking water from a firehose, every once in a while I stumble over very well-written and useful articles about MySQL. Below is a collection of helpful posts, especially if you run MySQL on Solaris (surprise!). And while I still am an avid Linux user, I must admit that Solaris has a few neat features - particularly DTrace and ZFS are quite intriguing. If only userland would not feel so weird for someone coming from a GNU/Linux background!

From Jenny Chen's blog:

• DTrace Integration with MySQL 5.0 - Chime demo
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I really thought I was done writing about MySQL for a while, but I attended a Sun/MySQL event in London today and have some shocking news to impart. It seems we’ve got MySQL all wrong.

At the event, MySQL co-founder David Axmark talked through some of the history of the MySQL project and company, confirming what has previously been reported about the origins of the database’s name.

It was, he confirmed, named after co-founder Monty Widenius’s daughter, My. …

I did an interview with Barton George from Sun while I was at the conference last week. Barton has now posted the interview. If you’re quick, you can listen to it before I do.

Topics: everything and anything, including Maatkit and PostgreSQL.

Baron Schwartz, Barton George, maatkit, mysqluc08, mysqluc2008, Podcast, …

Who’s Barton George?

Barton is a colleague from Sun, who “looks after Sun’s relationships with the various GNU/Linux communities as well as our relationship with the FSF” according to his blog. I spent time with him at the MySQL Users Conference last week. He is a fun guy to be around, and isn’t as US-centric as his remark “Last year, my family and I emigrated from Silicon Valley to Austin, TX.” would lead one to believe.

Barton is also an avid blogger. And, on top, a diligent podcaster.

As for blogging, he has recent MySQL relevant entries on partying …

I am attending the Web2.0 Expo at San Francisco this week. Today was the first day of the conference and the crowds seemed to be larger than last year. The primary focus seems to be on social networking this year. 

I'll blog more about other aspects of the conference, but I wanted to focus this post on the twitter phenomenon. I'd heard of twitter of course, but I just could never figure out what it was all about. What was the big deal about telling the world what you were doing every second ? Who would even care ?

I attended a panel titled  "Short attention span theater: The birth of micro-blogging and micro-media". It was mediated by Gregarious Narain (he turned out not to be all that gregarious) and included Jeremiah Owyang (Forrester Research), Stowe Boyd (consultant) and …