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I've been slacking on my blogging duties... with the release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, the OpenSolaris Developers Summit, and CommunityOne I should be blogging more than ever, but life has taken presidency for a short while. I do intend to catch up, but I'll start with a general update. Things progress very well at Joyent. Cloud Computing is the new big thing and we're right there in the pioneering pack, which is exciting. Its a lot of ...
I presented my "MySQL & DTrace" talk at the MySQL Users Conf this morning. The presentation is more terse than I wanted because of the 45 minute per session slots. The presentation is focused on a quick primer on DTrace, followed by examples of tracing MySQL using the PID provider rather than waiting for static probes, as well as some notes about static probes and the current status on integration. Download the PDF slides here. Keep ...
If you go get a cup of coffee at Starbucks you'll get it in this cup: Its actually worse than the NetApp logo! Just horrible. But fear not, its only promotional. Apparently the idea is to go with something different for a short time to grab attention from people who are so used to the Starbucks logo that they mentally ignore it. Whats with the continued rash of horrible logos?
In general I like the idea of distributed SCMs... but I've found that actually most of the time I use an SCM as much to distribute and archive as I do to actually do revision control. Over the last year or so I've really tried to become a big Hg fan, and honestly, its just one disappointment after another. For small local things its great, diffs are easy to create, etc. But pushing or pulling repositories takes an eternity, which is ...
Every morning I start the day by sitting down at my laptop with a cup of coffee and going through the normal news feeds, among them slashdot. There are far too many mornings when I have to quickly check the date because of some news story beyond belief, either our of stupidity or excess... but surprisingly, April 1st 2008 was not one of those days. All the stories around yesterday were either boring or non-obvious. A good April Fools joke ...
Recently release, Appleseed Ex Machina is a followup to the excellent CG/Anime fusion Appleseed release of 2005. Featuring a credit list that boggles the mind, including some "costumes" designed by Prada and produced by John Woo. This release is completely independent of the 2005 release, backstory, etc, is all there and only the most subtle of reference between the two exists. The underlying story isn't a terribly unique one, but as ...
I kid you not, NetApp has a fresh look... for review, here is the old: And the "new and improved": Uh...... ouch. Seriously. Of course, this isn't without problems, El Reg reports that the logo is already in use elsewhere. Splendid. I'll admit that the little "data arrow" above the old logo was confusing to some people, especially when on fabric, but the new one, eh, its just not distinctive and I think obscures the ...
I've uploaded my dtrace.conf(08) pictures, find them on flikr here: dtrace.conf(08) pictures. These are just mine, I'm sure others took their own pictures as well. Also, I did record all 10 or so hours of the conference! I'm transcoding and prep'ing them, sorry for the lag on getting those out but I've been so busy with new ideas as a result of the conference that I've been spending my weekend in 'vi' rather than 'iMovie'. ...
I've been a big Xiph fan since their beginning. When I wrote ePlayer, which became Euphoria, I opted against the popular multi-CODEC libraries and instead developed directly against libogg, libvorbis, and friends. The folks at Xiph just write beautiful code and know how to make developer friendly APIs. With the revolutionary release of Nine Inch Nails: Ghost I-IV I can't tell you how excited I was to see a FLAC option! Armed with ...
Bruce Schneier's blog has an interesting post pointing to a New York Magazine article on kids and lying. Its a thought provoking article but some people (based on comments and such) seem to come away thinking that somehow punishing children for lying leads them down a yet more destructive path than simply guiding it, and that lying actually requires more intellegance than honesty. Now... I normally don't comment on other articles or ...