Posted on 25/9/2008, 3:06 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Malaysia just gets crazier, and crazier, daily.
Its headlines to “commit a sinful act”, that is being provided with a woman. In fact, the accused has the statement that takes the cake:
“what is important is we did not ask for the women. He supplied them to us. If people sedekah (donate), don’t you want to accept the sedekah?”
However, there’s no cake, without egg. Politicians bickering over a statement about an egg.
The Seputeh Umno Youth division lodged a police report today against Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, claiming she had insulted the Royal Malaysian Police and the egg, which is an essential food of the underprivileged.
He said Kok had said the food she was served was “fit only for dogs”.
“By saying this, she had insulted the police and the poor. Eggs are an important food for low-income earners and the poor. As an elected representative of the people she should not have said that,” he said.
I love eggs. So much so, that I can say “chi dan” like its supposed to be said in Mandarin. I eat eggs everyday. Should I be lodging a police report against the Seputeh Umno Youth division as they just classified the egg as food of choice for the underprivileged? ;)
(there is after all, no caviar without eggs… tsk tsk… )
Posted on 24/9/2008, 12:44 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
From a UI perspective, Google got this right:
How thoughtful can you get? I mean, in a regular IM client, statuses mean next to nothing to many folk. They will still ping you anyway. Google’s interface actually tells you “You may be interrupting”. Smart.
Posted on 24/9/2008, 12:31 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Its great to see that the Obama campaign in America are after folk that dig open source. They’re after folk that can write software for nation-wide voter contact and mobilisation (something like Twitter?), fund-raising, and social networking and online organising at My.BarackObama.
They’re a LAMP shop. They’re after:
- Experience scaling large LAMP applications
- Posses deep knowledge of MySQL performance and query optimisation
I once wrote:
If they can waste your ringgit on buying proprietary software licenses, when there are clearly open source alternatives, can you trust them with spending and budgeting for a country?
It may seem extremely naive to correlate the use of open source software to creating a better budget or spending wisely, but I think its a start.
Posted on 23/9/2008, 7:56 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
This is a picture with a lot of impact. This was from Seedcamp. The question asked was “What tools will you use?”.
MÃ¥rten pointed this out to us at the opening speeches at the Sun Database Group Developer’s Meeting. Its interesting to see what technologies are used. MySQL is by far, the most popular database server that all startups seem to use (though to be fair, I see CouchDB and PostgreSQL there too). PHP is about the most popular language (followed closely by Java, then Ruby). Its amazing to see what kind of technologies people are using to build the companies of tomorrow.
Find out more about it, at the Zeitgeist redux on the seedcamp blog.
Posted on 23/9/2008, 7:29 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
I had first seen the interesting Rails logo in a talk by Terry Chay, while I was at OSCON, a few months ago.
Now, my esteemed colleague Jay Pipes has it on his laptop. It seems they’re making stickers, even.
Otherwise, my next task is to revamp our Ruby content. Currently, it looks a little sad. It has to at least be as good as Using MySQL With Ruby, no?
Posted on 23/9/2008, 6:51 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Recently, I had to futz with an Ubuntu server that was to run mail, web, and database services.
You slowly learn that Ubuntu as a desktop is easy to use, but as a server, its “different”, if you come from a Red Hat based background (especially if you’ve been using Red Hat-based distributions for the last thirteen years or so).
From example, while service httpd start works (well, the equivalent is service apache start), enabling things on boot using chkconfig (I wrote about it a while back) is replaced with update-rc.d.
In fact, if you’re an rpm aficionado, dpkg is a little different. I applaud the Ubuntu folk for creating an article such as Switching to Ubuntu from Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora. Impressive. Switcher guides :)
OpenSolaris needs switcher guides. svcadm/smf is different for someone who’s coming from Linux-land.