Sun acquires MySQL!
Remember when I said Sun was a company that listened? They sure do. Maybe MySQL will finally start fixing all the performance/concurrency issues with InnoDB (basically, InnoDB’s threading and...
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Laura Thomson has an interesting post about the MySQL acquisition. And I think it really highlights a fundamental disconnect that some companies built on providing open source applications for...
View ArticleThoughts on the new IE compatibility switch
Over on IEBlog and A List Apart, they detail a new flag for the upcoming IE8 that would enable you to “lock” the browser down to older versions should you be expecting older broken behavior from IE6 or...
View ArticleSmugMug & DataPortability.org
I’ve been getting a little flack for not joining DataPortability.org and want to set the record straight: SmugMug has believed since the beginning that your photos and metatdata are yours to do with...
View ArticleMy conference schedule for the rest of 2008
A few of you have been asking when/where I’ll be this year, conference-wise. Since Audrey was born, I’ve tried to keep my travel and speaking gigs to a bare minimum so I could help with my three kids...
View ArticleFreetards ruining the web?
photo by: Kirk Tanner Hardly. Hank Williams over at Silicon Alley Insider has a guest post up about how VCs are ruining the online tech economy by fueling free services, wrecking it for small and/or...
View ArticleThoughts on Google App Engine
First: Very cool. Next: I think it’s interesting that Google has basically taken a sniper scope out and aimed it at a specific cloud computing target. App Engine is only for web applications. No...
View ArticleI demand video to be awesome.
Sam “Shizam” Nichols, creator of the video player, donning his SmugMug Hero persona. See it in HD. The state of video codecs online has been a mess and there’s been no clear choice, making it very...
View ArticleNominations open for The Crunchies 2008
SmugMug wins Best Design at The Crunchies 2007 by Luca Filigheddu Photography I loved the idea behind The Crunchies even before we won for Best Design last year so I’m glad to see their triumphant...
View ArticleYahoo adds SmugMug support!
Yahoo! in cloud OR Hadoop? (Яху в облаках) by Alexander & Natalie tl;dr: Yahoo adds SmugMug support to Profiles. Windows Live coming. Lots of other services, too. Wow, what a pleasant surprise!...
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