Scott Guthrie is giving a keynote about LINQ - Language INtegrated Query, a new data processing approach from MS.
talked about migration from Dbase-era, to mid 90s, to OO mapping approach today (hibernate, active record, etc).
Still have issues:

how do you deal with non-relational data?
how do you interactive with ‘plain old objects’?
how to enable rich data shaping/transformations [...]

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Bruce Eckel is giving a keynote, starting with mindmapping. I was going to write about this, but it’s being recorded, and I assume it’ll be on the codemash.org website. Interesting:
Induction: proof through observation
Deduction: reasoning from exisiting principles
Adbuction: logic of possibility - “what might be”
Oddness - all sw/development is treated the same, but not with [...]

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I’ll detail how I got here later, but I’m now listening to Jay Pipes talk about mysql benchmarking and optimization techniques. Initial tools talked about include

sysbench - sysbench.sf.net
mysqlslap - throws in randomized data
apache bench
supersmack - www.vegan.net/tony/supersmack
mybench - jeremy.zawaodny.com/mysql/mybench

profiling

diagnose a running system
identify performance bottlenecks - memory/cpu/disk/network/os

show processlist / status / innodb status (http://dev.mysql.com/show)
NOTE: when ‘using [...]

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During the mysql meeting last night, Tobias mentioned the sphinx search engine project.  Apparently some ex-mysql guys split off and formed a consulting company, and are also working on this project.  I don’t know the nitty-gritty details, but I do know this seems pretty fast.  Tobias said it smokes Lucene for speed, and my initial [...]

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In no particular order, these were just some classics I’ve recently found.  If you have more, share them here or email me 
Congress Awards Itself Congressional Medal of Honor
133 Dead as Delta cancels flight in mid-air
Struggling Blockbuster Eliminates Rental Fees
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Some friends of mine are selling their house in Ypsilanti, MI, and I put together a small website to help them out.  If you know anyone looking for a family home in that area, please have them check out http://8172thornhill.com and arrange a viewing.
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These “Cinammon Redgolds” are now officially my latest snack love.  I’m regressing, after doing so well this week (fresh fruit, home-made hot lunches, reasonable dinners, etc.).  Argh!!!

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Monday, I ate

3 pears
3 granola bars (quaker chewy kind)
60 oz of water
Bag of microwave popcorn
.5 liters of ‘vanilla chai tea with soy protein‘
1 footlong wheat sub with chicken, buffalo sauce, tomatoes and ranch dressing
handful of tortilla chips
1 bowl of ice cream

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I should probably post a whole article here, but I don’t have time!  Suffice it to say that PHP needs you to compile ‘–with-zlib’ if you’re trying to also compile curl as well.  http://us2.php.net/curl doesn’t have any reference to that fact from what I saw, so I figured I’d post it here.
When running ‘make’ I [...]

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Got an estimate on the body repair for the sign that fell on my car. Only estimate I got so far was $738. Seems just a bit excessive, so I’m looking for other estimates in the next couple weeks.
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