I wasn't really looking for a new job a few months ago when I received an email from Eric Scheide (see Team Bios), the CTO at craigslist. He mentioned that they were looking for someone with MySQL experience and asked if I knew anyone. This sort of thing happens all the time. But this time it was different. Over the course of about three seconds, something clicked in my little brain and I realized
It seems that word has started to leak out, so I might as well remove any speculation or ambiguity. In the next few weeks, I'll walk the halls at Yahoo! as an employee one last time and turn in my purple badge. After 8.5 years of service and a better experience than I could have possibly imaged back in 1999, the time for me to move on has arrived. It's always hard to make a decision like this. It
Google's GData, MySQL, and the Future of on-line Databases In reading Richard MacManus' Why Google is extending RSS, I couldn't help feeling that he was missing the point a bit. It's as if he was focusing on the small things ("Why RSS?") rather than looking at the bigger picture of where all this is going. It's not about building an easier onramp to Google Base. Well, it is. But, again, that's the
When Google first launched their maps with satellite imagery, I immediately began using it as a tool for examining airports and non-airport landing spots. It turns out that I wasn't alone. The aviation community at large has been all over Google Maps. Having the ability to look at an airstrip and the surrounding terrain (and obstructions) before you arrive is amazingly useful in flight planning. S
Before heading off to SES New York (I still need to pack), I took a minute to try out the new Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves): And noticed some striking similarities to Google: Common colors for sponsored links (though the ones on Ask.com don't "work" if you click in the bluespace that has no text under it), navigation at the top and bottom, color bar, and so on. Heh. Posted by jzawodn at February 2
I've been thinking about this for the last day or so and have come to the conclusion that Oracle's acquisition of Sleepycat Software (and Berkeley DB) is not about MySQL. Even when combined with their previous purchase of Innobase Oy (and InnoDB), it's not about MySQL. With all due respect to Phil Windley (and Gadgetopia), you're wrong. Oracle is thinking much bigger and more strategically than "p
Yesterday Greg Linden asked Is Web 2.0 nothing more than mashups? In that post, he makes the following claim: Companies offer web services to get free ideas, exploit free R&D, and discover promising talent. That's why the APIs are crippled with restrictions like no more than N hits a day, no commercial use, and no uptime or quality guarantees. They offer the APIs so people can build clever toys, t
Oracle buys Innobase. MySQL between rock and hard place? As reported in several sources (Slashdot, InfoWorld, AP on Yahoo, Reuters), Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy for an undisclosed sum of money. This appears to be a strategic move by Oracle to put MySQL between a rock and hard place. Innobase is the company that provides the underlying code for the InnoDB storage engine in MySQL. It's the de-fa
It�s been a long time coming but the wait is nearly over (and well worth it). If you haven�t been following MySQL 5.0 development very closely, the MySQL 5.0 Release Candidate has the following major new features: Views (both read-only and updatable views) Stored Procedures and Stored Functions Triggers Server-side cursors (read-only, non-scrolling) Precision math Larger VARCHARS (up to 64kb) ARCH
Jeff Boulter (engineering manager for Y! News) is looking for a few good hackers: for a new Yahoo! site focused on technology - cell phones, cameras, computers and other nerdly gadgets. Find ‘em, compare ‘em, buy ‘em and use ‘em. If you ever wanted to play with cool toys and get in on the ground level of building an entirely new Yahoo! site, here’s your chance! What's the job entail? According to
Sometimes I'm a little surprised by how long some ideas take to bubble up. Other times I'm surprised by the form they take. I'm doubly surprised this time. Google Sitemaps (BETA, of course) has me scratching my head a bit. Rather than build on existing work, it seems that Google wants people to build up and submit sitemaps to them so they can increase the freshness and coverage (or comprehensivene
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