Posted
on 21/10/2008, 11:49 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
General.
I have always recommended the use of OpenDNS, and of late, I’ve decided to stop having to dabble with DNS (in general), and use EveryDNS. For the uninitiated, they both have David Ulevitch in common.
There’s a web interface, its not as simple as tinydns, but it gets the job done. For free, you can host 20 domains, and 200 records (CNAME, MX, etc.). I don’t think I’ll be exceeding that limit anytime soon, but I think its time to make a donation.
Nothing but satisfaction, in the last few weeks of use. One service less to maintain. Anyone else use EveryDNS and is really happy with their service?
Posted
on 20/10/2008, 11:43 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
MySQL.
I think Giuseppe (the man with too many blogs!) was a little too optimistic in his last post… the MySQL Conference Call for Participation has received an amazing amount of proposals, but not enough by our standards.
I personally believe there should be a 1:3 accepted-rejected ratio. Currently, its not there yet. Why do I like such high ratios? It means that there are actually so many good talks, and we (the voting committee) pick the best of the best, to give attendees the most mileage for their time and money. Or am I too harsh?
Anyway, the word on the street is that we will extend the Call for Participation, mostly because it is the right thing to do, and lots of people expect it. Expect an official announcement to go out soon about this. But remember, you’d be loved more if you submitted before midnight (PDT) on October 22.
Posted
on 17/10/2008, 1:46 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
MySQL.
Within the APAC region? Planning to attend foss.my (November 8-9 2008)? Why not stay a little longer, for the MySQL for Developers training course – 5 days, from 10-14 November 2008, conducted by my good friends at hSenid (MySQL partners in Malaysia). To register, or find out more, drop Ruchith a quick email at ruchith[at]hsenid[dot]com.
Posted
on 16/10/2008, 2:42 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
General.
When I blogged about maybank2u 2.0, I also mentioned that loading the site was an issue.
| before |
after |
% increase |
| 148KB |
196KB |
32% |
| 41 HTTP requests |
61 HTTP requests |
49% |
| 5.47s |
10.68s |
95% |
It seems they launched the site, and its now slow as.
Our service is currently unavailable.
Please try again later
More HTTP requests… longer load times… its almost impossible to login. And when you do, you see the above.
Its a better design. The UI rocks. But you got to scale the site, dear. With all that increases, you got to increase capacity. Lets hope these teething problems disappear (I don’t know when the site got launched, been away these past few days).
Funnily enough, I was awakened by my dad, who’s pretty tech-savvy, to tell me that the website had changed, and he couldn’t find the login button. I wonder how many people were so used to the old UI, which said “login” on the left hand side-bar, that now they’ve got to look at the top-right hand spot. Little UI changes… can potentially cause big panics!
Update: Classic Maybank2u is still available in the meantime. Its still Web 1.0-ish, but its familiar. Good luck to the M2U team in scaling M2U 2.0!
Posted
on 15/10/2008, 11:05 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
General.
Going to LCA? We have two days of glory for what is known as The Open Source Databases MiniConf. We have a webpage on the wiki, the announcement went out a few days ago, and the call for participation is open!
Tasmania is a fabulous place to be in January. 19-20 January 2009 is when the OSDB-MiniConf happens… topics on MySQL, PostgreSQL, Derby/JavaDB, Drizzle, CouchDB and many more are to be accepted.
What are you waiting for, submit a talk already!
Posted
on 7/10/2008, 5:20 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
General.
Catchy title? Its a webminar hosted by Robert Scoble, with panel members like Matt Mullenweg (WordPress – their extensive use of PHP, MySQL and more, and scalable even for wordpress.com), Paul Bucheit (FriendFeed, creator of GMail) and Nat Brown (iLike, a pretty popular Facebook application), you’d be silly not to miss it.
Its all about building a scalable server environment that grows with your traffic (virtually overnight, in some cases). I hope its all fairly generic and not Rackspace specific… we should learn to have these “fun” panel webminars.
