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Oracle and MySQL are a perfect match
May 09 2006
Related link: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2587 Given all the news about Oracle’s purchases of Innobase and more recently Sleepycat, it wasn’t surprising to hear that Oracle had tried to buy MySQL. What was surprising is that it took so long. There’s a tension between transactional databases, which have hefty overhead in order to preserve the… read moreIs Standard Terminology Really Important?
May 09 2006
Related link: http://www.mashupcamp.com/index.cgi?action=edit;page_name=APIDocumentationProjec … Said today at Mash-Up Camp by Ryan King, grad student at the University of San Francisco: “We already have standardized terminology–we just don’t agree on what it means.” Can’t we just all get along? And exactly what do we mean by “get along”? read moreMay 09 2006
Any time tracking ideas for a two-party, separate-machines, hard-to-coordinate household? My wife and I have the need to track our time independently and yet work with it in the aggregate. Does anyone have something to suggest–possibly something web-based? The primary constraints for us are quick start-up, shallow learning curve, and data… read more