What is next for message board software?
When I was hired at dealnews.com in 1998, my primary focus was to get our message board (Phorum) up to speed. I had written the first version as a side project for the site. Message boards were a lot ...
Forums are crap. Can we get some help?
Amy Hoy has written a blog post about why forums are crap. And she is right. Forum software does not always do a good job of helping people communicate. I have worked with Amy. She did a great analysi...
Did you know I am going to be at Velocity?
Well, neither did I until today. HA! Velocity is a new O'Reilly conference dedicated to "Optimizing Web Performance and Scalability". It starts next Monday. Yesterday I was contacted by Adam Jaco...
MemProxy 0.1
MemProxy 0.1 is out! It has taken me a while, but I have finally gotten around to releasing the code that I credited with saving us during a Yahoo! mention. It is a caching proxy "server" that use...
in_array is quite slow
So, we had a cron job hanging for hours. No idea why. So, I started debugging. It all came down to a call to in_array(). See, this job is importing data from a huge XML file into MySQL. Afte...
Thoughts on the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo
Well, it has been almost a month. I know I am late to the blogosphere on my thoughts. Just been busy. Again this year, the Phorum team was invited to be a part of the DotOrg Pavilion. What is t...
Interview with WebDevRadio
While I was at the MySQL Conference, I sat down with Michael Kimsal of WebDevRadio and recapped the two talks that I gave at the conference. I have uploaded the slides so you can follow along if you...
MySQL Conference Swag
I was reading a post about The Swag Report and realized that I stayed so busy at the Phorum booth (and a little at the memcached booth) and preparing for my talks, I did not bother to go around and co...
2008 MySQL Conference, part 1
It is always surprising what I learn when I go to a conference these days. Years ago, I could go to any talk and just suck it all in. Now, it is the little nuggets. The topics as a whole do more to...
Phorum turns 10
So, I am at the MySQL Conference this week with my Phorum co-developers. We got to talking last night about how old Phorum is. We knew it was about 10 years. We pulled up some old archived zip file...