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MySQL Replication: Audit, Test, & Verify

In this live online event, Sean Hull (Oracle and Open Source) will talk about why MySQL slaves get out of sync with the master, both in terms of things that happen in the application and in MySQL's implementation of statement-based replication. He'll then discuss a method to eliminate the problem by testing and verifying your current setup.

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Competition in the eBook Market

There's been a lot of buzz on forward-looking publisher mailing lists in the past few days about Robert Darnton's piece in the New York Review of Books, Google and the Future of Books. When it hit techmeme today, I thought it might be appropriate to share more broadly the comments I made on the Reading 2.0 list (links added, minor...

Quote of the Day from Twitter: 25 January 2009

@JoeTrippi: "Our founders loved capitalism but they believed to their core that capitalism had to serve the democracy and not the other way around."...

Macintosh Still Wisecracking at 25

Today is the Mac's 25th birthday. Watching this YouTube video of Steve Jobs pulling it out of the bag in 1984, I was amused to see how sound has been part of this computer from the beginning. The speech synthesizer comes in around 2:51. It sounds like FM synthesis; anyone have more details?

Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX

I've been banging on the RESTful services/XRX bandwagon for a while now, and the good folks at O'Reilly have kindly consented to let me get out the entire trap drum set for an O'Reilly Webinar entitled "Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX".

Planning to Spend Less Money This Year

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Martin Nystrom at Cisco Networkers 2009 (Europe)
Jan 26-29, 2009
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Jan 27-27, 2009
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