Joel Spolsky writes about 12 steps to better code, and elsewhere about how candidates should write code in interviews. The reverse conditions are true, too. If you’re a candidate, you should evaluate the employer against the 12 steps, and you should also see code samples. …
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You have the right to see code samples in an interview
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Summary of beCamp 2008
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/04/summary-of-becamp-2008/Yesterday I went to beCamp 2008 along with four roomfuls of other people interested in technology (perhaps close to 100 people total). The conference was a lot of fun. Not everything went as planned, but that was as planned. This was an Open Spaces conference and I thought it worked very well. …
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News flash: MySQL 5.1 has zero bugs
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/Zack Urlocker says MySQL 5.1 has zero bugs. He may have been misquoted, or quoted out of context, but there it is. I’ll quote enough of it that you can’t take it out of context twice: Mickos also said MySQL 5.1 has upgraded its reliability and ease of use over 2005’s v5.0. …
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The Data Charmer
http://datacharmer.blogspot.comBlog Metrics Plugin Thoughts on the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo High Performance MySQL Second Edition Schedule Ten Ways to Destroy Your Community MySQL Tuning with HQ
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becamp slides - Ramaze
http://dambalah.com/2008/05/03/becamp-slides-ramaze/, a lightweight web application framework written in Ruby. My slides are below. They are also on scribd. We had a very good group here and some interesting talks. I particularly enjoyed the talk on High Performance MySQL by Baron Schwartz. Ahson started a good discussion on Web 3.0. The other sessions I attended were on ‘Javascript Design Patterns’, ‘High Availibility Linux’, and ‘Google App Engine.’
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DbRunas - Noticias, recursos y artículos sobre Bases de Datos
http://www.dbrunas.com.arULTIMOS ARTICULOS PLANETMYSQL Sun, the stock market lottery, and the road ahead Call for Articles for MySQL Magazine ? Summer Issue New Responsibilities Sun loses 23% market capital News flash: MySQL 5.1 has zero bugs Come to beCamp 2008 Yahoo! Mail Bug? Emails disappearing upon reaching 65,535 emails in one of the folders
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The Place for SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL Database Administration and Database Development help.
http://integribase.com/wordpressRecent Posts NetBeans 6.1 with GlassFish, MySQL bundle Pre-Order High Performance MySQL Second Edition OpenSolaris Summit, CommunityOne, JavaOne - big week ahead MySQL: How do you use symlinks with MySQL tables? Using Indexes to Bypass Locks
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Planet MySQL
http://planetmysql.orgKeith Murphy (70) Ronald Bradford (66) MySQL Performance Blog (63) Arjen Lentz (46) Carsten Pedersen (45) Colin Charles (45) Sheeri K. Cabral (44) Kaj Arnö (39) Frank Mash (37) Matt Asay (35) The 451 Group (35) Baron Schwartz (xaprb) (30) Dave Stokes (29) Brian Aker (27) Technocation (27) George Trujillo (25) Artem Russakovskii (23) Lenz Grimmer (22) Venu Anuganti (22) Jay Pipes (18) Kevin Burton (18) The Workbench Team (17) Kris Buytaert
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Meta Novus - Blog Headlines and News, the Net Refreshed
http://metanovus.com/history.php?site=Delicious%20Hot%20ListThe day the music industry died Times Online Math Trek: A Prayer for Archimedes, Science News Online, Oct. 6, 2007 How to keep your old PC alive Amazing Way to Tie Your Sneakers Memory part 2: CPU caches [LWN.net] Five great Perl programming techniques to make your life fun again Xaprb
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How to install and maintain multiple WordPress blogs easily
http://webmasterdays.com/blog/2008/04/28/how-to-install-and-...How to install and maintain multiple WordPress blogs easily at Xaprb
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The rag bag of Maxim Derkachev
http://www.ragbag.ruBookmarks Generators Hypertable: An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database Kickfire: stream-processing SQL queries at Xaprb Column-oriented DBMS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Scaling out MySQL - Hardware today and tomorrow.pdf (application/pdf Object) Google App Engine for developers Bucardo - multi-master replication for Postgres
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Disaster is Inevitable -- SQL Injection: Poorly Written Code and No Backups!
http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com/2008/04/disa...SQL Injection attacks, like http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifthis one that is focused on securing PHP and MySQL applications. In this year's "Disaster is Inevitable--Are you Ready" presentation at the MySQL Conference (Yes, I have read Baron's post), I covered a few types of disasters. However, I missed an important kind of disaster: ones that are caused by SQL Injection. My next presentation on this topic will certainly cover this. BTW, if you missed my presentation, you can thank
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Log Buffer #94: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
http://blog.arabx.com.au/?p=1064s truly has also mentioned regarding the Community contributions, development and release. Perhaps a sign of more benefit to the community soon as Monty mentions. Baron Schwartz comments on Keith “a.k.a Kevin” Murphy’s work in Spring 2008 issue of MySQL Magazine. With a quick plug also for his upcoming book “High Performance MySQL - Version 2″ (me giving it a plug also now), Baron also has the best published anti-spam sniffer email I’ve seen, and recently updated to his new employer. Check his blog and
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