Archive for May 22nd, 2009

Required Reading

May 22

Posted by Sam Hamilton in China, Marketing, Open Source, Random Stuff | No Comments

    F1 – The World Gone Mad

    May 22

    Posted by Sam Hamilton in Formual 1 | No Comments

    So I went on holiday just before the Spanish GP and in the matter of two weeks the F1 world has gone bonkers, we have had:

    And that is just the most interesting ones!

    Is the UK going down the pan?

    May 22

    Posted by Sam Hamilton in News | No Comments

    Not sure really how much press this is getting but if the UK looses its AAA credit rating I think that this is a slippery downward slope which can only further push the UK into a deeper recession

    to mySQL or not?

    May 22

    Posted by Sam Hamilton in Open Source | No Comments

    So this blog runs on mySQL but most things critical for the company run on postgreSQL unless horror of horrors it requires a MS SQL database. With first Sun buying mySQL then Oracle you would expect better things from them and they do seem to have most of the limelight when it comes to scaling outward into the cloud (this blog is running from Mosso) but what is becoming apparent is that mySQL seems to be a melt down – have a read here (updated with…) and also here as it seems that more people are thinking the same way

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