Embracing the new communication
As I said a while back, I started using Twitter. I get it. Today I had a good idea and so I created a couple of new Twitter feeds. If you are a big fan of my day job, you might want to look at h...
Playing with MySQL's index merge
So, I mentioned before that I found out about index_merge at the MySQL Conference. I was wondering why I had not heard more about it since it came out in 5.0.3. When talking with some MySQL people abo...
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...
Local: Best practices for SQL backed web applications
When Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 12:00 PM Where BizTech 515 Sparkman Drive Huntsville , AL 35816 Details Brian Moon of dealnews.com will be discussing best practices for writing database backed web b...
People really do run PHP on Windows
One of my favorite restaurants these days is Buffalo Wild Wings. They show the UFC fights. It is cheaper to go there than to throw a party at the house. I went there tonight to get some nutritional...
Forums are the red headed step child of a web site
I have seen it time and time again. And yet, every time, it irritates me to no end. You are on a professional web site. You are navigating around and at some point you hit the link for their forums...
Speaking at MySQL Conference 2008
I had mentioned a while back that I submitted three proposals for the 2008 MySQL Conference. Well, two were accepted. From one server to a cluster In the last 10 years, dealnews.com has grown from...
Apache Worker and PHP
The PHP manual basically tells you not to use Apache 2 with a threaded MPM and PHP as an Apache module. In general, it may be good advice. But, at dealnews.com, we have found it very valuable. Apac...
Trying out Twitter
I have decided to try out Twitter. Mostly it is a curiousity about what it does and how it works. The recent outages baffle me. It seems like a very simple application. I am hoping to find the...
Managing two data centers
Call it paranoia. Call it being prepared. Whatever your stance, we are considering using more than one data center for dealnews.com. It is not a capacity issue. We can keep growing our current...