Archive for August, 2009

DBJ: 7 Ways To Crash a Database

With a tongue in cheek, humorous tone, we turn the tables upside down on database best practices, illustrating all of the things you shouldn’t do, and what might happen if you ignore those important tasks.

 7 Ways To Crash A Database

Webcast: Step-by-step MySQL Clustering Setup

I recently did a webcast for O’Reilly and Associates on MySQL Clustering Setup and configuration.

Click here to see a clip over at O’Reilly.

Open Insights 58 – Ownership

In our latest newsletter we take a trip to the Brooklyn Flea, and talk with the purveyors not of homemade beer, but homemade beer making equipment.  We share some insights at how enthusiasts, technology geeks, open source aficionados and passionate detail oriented folks in many niches share a common trait in common.  That of ownership.  Owning the details, the skills, and mastery over a topic or area.  The proverbial “subject matter expert”.

 Open Insights Newsletter Issue 58 – Ownership