Bing ads are such bull crap
Have you see these Bing ads? The insinuate that web search gives you a lot of crap. But, that Bing can cure that problem. Really? One simple question Bing: How big is the sun? Google Goo...
O'Reilly Open Source Conference Day Two
So, day two was the cool keynote day. Day one keynotes were from Tim O'Reilly (not that he is not cool) and the vendors sponsors. The Intel building blocks stuff was neat, but most of it was vend...
O'Reilly Open Source Conference Day One
Day one is complete. Portland is great as always. Its really day 1 1/2 since we got in at 1PM yesterday. That allowed us to go to the MySQL/Zend party last night. Great party by those guys. ...
Five months with MySQL Cluster
So, the whole world changed at dealnews when Yahoo! linked us. We realized that our current infrastructure was not scaling very well. We had to make a change. The Problem Even though we were using...
Getting all SOAPY
So, we (dealnews.com) rolled out a new site this month, metaprice.com. Its young and lacking features of many of the other price comparison sites, but is has great potential. Our hope is to bring ...
Feeling Lucky with Yahoo!
So, one of the things I always use in Firefox is the auto Google Feeling Lucky feature. If you don't know what I mean, then load Firefox and type php in the address bar. You will most likely go to h...
Phorum + Sphinx = really fast
Thomas wrote the Sphinx search module nearly a month ago. I have just now gotten to looking at it. From the things I have read, Sphinx looks really cool. I am considering using it in some other sit...