10. a swarm of geeks storming a hotel bar is awe inspiring 09. openly shared information is a beautiful thing 08. i got to be star struck when meeting and greeting luminaries 07. only to find out they know about my comany/projects/name 06. met clients/peers/vendors whom i only knew via email/im/twitter … [Read more...]
Ignite MySQL at the MySQL Conference and Expo
I'll be giving a talk tonight at the Ignite MySQL! For those of you who don't know about this format, I suggest that you check out Ignite!. The basic premise is: Fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, social, local, global—Ignite is all of these and more. It's a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea—and the guts to get … [Read more...]
Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle. oh my.
To follow up on Chuck's post from earlier this week, I want to say that yes, on Monday morning I raced across the office to share the crazy news that Oracle is trying to buy MySQL Sun. Though, I don't remember yelling. But, I did have a real point here and that is that the numbers that he quoted are prior to the Enterprise / Community split that … [Read more...]
MySQL Conference in just more than a week
Alas, I won't be attending the conference but in reading the speaking schedules, I found several talks that I hope will be recorded and published later. Many are directly applicable to our customers and the work we do for them, some would tickle my inner geek and a few are super interesting for what they portend for the data management … [Read more...]
Velocity 2009
I've had the pleasure of being asked to speak at Velocity 2009 and tomorrow I go to San Francisco to participate the the Velocity Summit. I'll get to rub elbows with the cabal that is planning/producing and executing the mamouth undertaking that is running a conference. I gave four topic possibilities all focused on MySQL or 24/7 operational … [Read more...]
MySQL 5.1GA
As is usually the case with fresh versions of software, we advise clients to move forward judiciously. This release has a bit of a hubbub surrounding it on the internet regarding Monty Widenius' post titled "Oops we did it again". Monty's article is an excellent summary of what does and doesn't work as well as putting in an obligatory (though … [Read more...]
Managing databases and other stuff
Databases exist to store data. That said, a database is infrequently useful entirely on it's own. So, managing databases means that we're often interacting with applications that access that data. Some of the common applications that we work with include Oracle E-Business Suite, Tomcat, Apache and ColdFusion. We had an entertaining problem … [Read more...]
Busy couple of weeks
We've been working on lots of new customers and in our spare time writing a few scripts and white papers. I've added a link to the right to download Chuck Edwards' paper on encrypting Oracle traffic with SSH tunnels. Ed's been working hard on some handy Oracle scripts and I'll have that tarball published sometime this week. In the mean time, … [Read more...]
Monocle – Open Source Oracle Monitoring
Last week we soft launched our new monitoring product Monocle. We’ve been slowly adding more links and publicity to point people to our code repo. Get Oracle database monitoring here. (Couldn’t resist a bit of SEO linking.) Anyway, this is the official press release. We’re super excited about actually sharing the monitoring … [Read more...]
Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility
Blue Gecko was named a winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility in 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 distinguishing us as one of the top practitioners of workplace flexibility in the nation. “Two of the biggest issues for employers in today’s economy are recruitment of top talent and retention of valued … [Read more...]