How I Get Stuff Done
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I’ve been meaning for a while to sort of document how I get stuff done at work. It was just over a year ago that I bought my MacBook Pro. Within a week or so, I started using it at … Continue reading
Thoughts on MySQL Scalability From a Certified MySQL Moron
While I sit here and wait for myisamchk to finish and tell me that the table that various folks have spent the better part of the day trying to restore is either healthy or once again dead (how’s that for … Continue reading
Affiliate Marketing is the Drizzling Shits of the Internet
Preface: These comments are mine and not those of my employer or anyone else. Ok, maybe they also represent the voices in my head. Advertising on the Web There’s lots of advertising on the web. The biggest web company in … Continue reading
Would you rather be overworked or homicidal?
The company I work for has been growing. Rapidly. Our business model (as I think I’ve mentioned before) is that we acquire other hosting companies and merge their customers into our pretty scalable, manageable platform. It’s generally a ton of … Continue reading
Filing Away for Future Use: MySQL Stupidity
We had a database issue the other day. We were losing records in our DNS database. It turned out the table was corrupt and inserts were failing. We used MySQL’s REPLACE INTO to update the table. So, in essence, this … Continue reading