This week I am fortunate enough to be sent to the Percona Live Conference by my company. I’ve been sitting here tonight, pondering and recalling sessions for the day; trying to think of all those things that I learned I’m was doing wrong or better tools I could be using. …
I got the opportunity to attend the Velocity 2010 Web Performance and Operations Conference last week with most of the rest of the guys from the Ops team at SugarCRM. It took place right around the same time as some other stuff I had going on, so I wasn’t able …
This last week I’ve been working on a site for posting photos to share with family/friends/etc. I have my photos all organized nicely in iPhoto and thought iWeb would be a slick way to export those pictures right to my website (via an FTP server I’d setup, at least). (Why …
I’ve always read (and witnessed) that nginx is a far more efficient web server than Apache. In fact, people are noticing in vast numbers as evidenced by the latest numbers from Netcraft on web server market share. nginx market share has exploded out of nothing in the past couple of …
Today I got to replace my aging Ubuntu desktop with a new machine. We’ve been using 2X for some time to run Windows apps on our Macs and I was pumped a few months ago to figure out that they had packaged a new version of their client for Ubuntu …