What I Do:         Performance and Scalability Consulting and Advisory Solutions for MySQL. Enterprise Data Architecture, Speaking and Writing.
How I Do It:    With 2 decades professional experience in Information Technology with specializations in enterprise data architecture,large systems development and Internet web technologies, I bring a wealth of experience from different Industry sectors, technologies, methodologies and countries.

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Jul
07

Time Warner Cable Speed
Tags: Professional,

I had my Time Warner cable installed yesterday, a rather painless process. Reported as having Internet speeds of 10MB down and 1/2 MB up, these were confirmed with speedtest.net Installation - July 5...  [read more...]

Jul
05

Today's wicked cool site - ping.fm
Tags: Web Sites, Cool Tools, Show Your Stuff, Professional, Web,

I posted on my ...  [read more...]

Jun
21

Generating Word Clouds
Tags: Web Development, Web Sites, Cool Tools, Google, Professional, Web, App Engine,

I came across a wicked cool tool at wondle.net. I wanted to create a word cloud for the back of a business card, now I know how. ...  [read more...]

Jun
20

Setting up on EC2
Tags: Web Development, Professional, Amazon, EC2, S3,

Thanks to my friend Dustin, and his EC2 demo using Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 I ...  [read more...]

Jun
20

Giving control of your data to the cloud
Tags: Databases, MySQL, Professional,

I've been doing some research and evaluation of more cloud computing. Specifically my focus has been on data store, and considering how to augment an existing operation using a popular database such as MySQL. I'v...  [read more...]