> There is not scientific way to prove that > God Does or Does not Exist.
Not all truth can be arrived at through the scientific method. For example, it's true that my parents love me, but establishing a double-blind study to prove it would be difficult.
> One guy would not be able to provide > enterprise level support for one database.
Hm. I guess what I'm envisioning for large companies is that they'd have a couple of full-time DBAs, and they would occasionally bring in a guru for tweaking and tuning.
That's what I've observed with some large government databases; the DBA did most of the day to day maintenance, but once in a while they'd bring in a guy for a day or two at $200 per hour who would make sure all the configuration/indexes/etc were up to snuff.
> All companies listed are under about 35 employees
Why would that be a problem? After all, database support is something a guru can do by himself... it doesn't take an army of level one tech support folks. It's like a compiler support company - just one or two really, really smart people.
I'm not sure how high PostgreSQL scales, although I've heard of folks running terabyte-sized databases on it. At any rate, Fujitsu is helping to fund improvements in that area, so it's only getting better.
Hm. Well, maybe. There have been a couple releases this year, and the mailing list remains active.
I kind of feel that the torch is being passed on to Subversion, with no hard feelings between anyone. Lots of folks are converting over and most folks seem pretty happy with it. But CVS is still widely used and there are a bunch of of gurus who hang out on the list and answer questions.
Oh, and here's a mirror of various CVS releases if anyone needs them.
...you may need to disable FreeType in your.mozconfig:
. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig ac_add_option s --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 ac_add_options --disable-freetype2
I'm working on a small "embed Mozilla in a GTK window" project, and some helpful fellow on IRC suggested this configuration.
Incidentally, if you're doing something like that, be sure to check into gtkmozembed. It encapsulates all the XPCOM stuff, so all you have to do is include it and do a:
While game magazines may be going downhill...
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New Games Journalism
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...books about programming games seem to be doing fine. At least, Charles River has published a bunch of high quality games titles, including the excellent Game Programming Gems series.
They're also starting a Journal of Game Programming, which looks nifty in an academic sort of way. But that's the way game programming seems to be these days - either you're a content artist or you've got a PhD in physics and can speak fluent assembler.
...SQL Performance Tuning is an excellent book. It has a lot of good discussion on when to use certain SQL contructs and how to check your database to ensure you're actually getting improvements.
Googling didn't bring up anything helpful... I can see a couple of possible barriers:
- most developers aren't clicking on email attachments - it's tedious work; rooting around in Windows Registry and system folders isn't fun - it'd need to be constantly updated to be effective
...one of the nice things about Ruby is that Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt keep Programming Ruby up to date. The second edition just came out, and it's a good one.
If you're using Ruby or are interested in using it, it's an excellent written by someone who's very active in the Ruby community.
> PostgreSQL has so much more speed, > stamina, strength and beauty.
The PostgreSQL database on RubyForge has been slowly growing over the past year or so... it's up over 825K records and ticking along smoothly. I can't see ever going back to MySQL unless forced to...
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> There is not scientific way to prove that
> God Does or Does not Exist.
Not all truth can be arrived at through the scientific method. For example, it's true that my parents love me, but establishing a double-blind study to prove it would be difficult.
Thanks for the interesting post! I agree with you - some organizations are best served by purchasing database software from Oracle.
> One guy would not be able to provide
> enterprise level support for one database.
Hm. I guess what I'm envisioning for large companies is that they'd have a couple of full-time DBAs, and they would occasionally bring in a guru for tweaking and tuning.
That's what I've observed with some large government databases; the DBA did most of the day to day maintenance, but once in a while they'd bring in a guy for a day or two at $200 per hour who would make sure all the configuration/indexes/etc were up to snuff.
> All companies listed are under about 35 employees
Why would that be a problem? After all, database support is something a guru can do by himself... it doesn't take an army of level one tech support folks. It's like a compiler support company - just one or two really, really smart people.
> "scalability problems" is still unrefuted
I'm not sure how high PostgreSQL scales, although I've heard of folks running terabyte-sized databases on it. At any rate, Fujitsu is helping to fund improvements in that area, so it's only getting better.
From the article:
> PostgreSQL has a much richer feature set but
> has scalability problems and doesn't have
> a company behind it providing
> enterprise-level support;
Bah. What about this? Lots of companies there, and many of the folks involved are core PostgreSQL developers...
...right here.
It's been serving a decent amount of traffic for quite a while with no problems...
Yup, PMD rocks! And the guys who work on it are really awesome, cool dudes! Especially Tom Copeland, he's the best!
Ahem.
Anyhow, if you're looking for Java bytecode analysis, FindBugs is excellent. Nice folks, too, and the mailing list is pretty active.
Hm. Well, maybe. There have been a couple releases this year, and the mailing list remains active.
I kind of feel that the torch is being passed on to Subversion, with no hard feelings between anyone. Lots of folks are converting over and most folks seem pretty happy with it. But CVS is still widely used and there are a bunch of of gurus who hang out on the list and answer questions.
Oh, and here's a mirror of various CVS releases if anyone needs them.
Incidentally, if you're doing something like that, be sure to check into gtkmozembed. It encapsulates all the XPCOM stuff, so all you have to do is include it and do a:It's a real timesaver.
> you actually do any work on Ruby
Yup, I use it at work for various things, and I wrote a little SQL analysis thingy in it.
> I know where you live and work
Hm, yup, not hard to find...
> Ever been to the theatre at Worldgate?
Nope. Most of the time I work down in Arlington on a client site.
> You don't want some albino storming
> into your life and fucking up your shit.
Hm. Why would you do that?
> Why [...] plug Ruby?
Don't know... just seemed appropriate in this case...
...on RubyForge, including Magic Maze (which was inspired by Gauntlet) and Tadpoles.
...books about programming games seem to be doing fine. At least, Charles River has published a bunch of high quality games titles, including the excellent Game Programming Gems series.
They're also starting a Journal of Game Programming, which looks nifty in an academic sort of way. But that's the way game programming seems to be these days - either you're a content artist or you've got a PhD in physics and can speak fluent assembler.
> Another good example is the pen Nasa spent a
> log of money to create so astronauts could
> write in space...and the Russians use pencils.
Charming, but false.
...for Ruby here.
Still lots to do but it's a start...
...like DARPA does with Cougaar.
Government sponsored open source is already here... good times!
C'mon now... don't forget about the good old TRS-80.
Lots of good times with that thing... reading/writing video memory directly... happy days!
...SQL Performance Tuning is an excellent book. It has a lot of good discussion on when to use certain SQL contructs and how to check your database to ensure you're actually getting improvements.
PLUG: Which SQL queries are taking the most time? PQA home page, download.
Googling didn't bring up anything helpful... I can see a couple of possible barriers:
- most developers aren't clicking on email attachments
- it's tedious work; rooting around in Windows Registry and system folders isn't fun
- it'd need to be constantly updated to be effective
It's a tough row to hoe...
...one of the nice things about Ruby is that Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt keep Programming Ruby up to date. The second edition just came out, and it's a good one.
If you're using Ruby or are interested in using it, it's an excellent written by someone who's very active in the Ruby community.
...right here.
PLUG: Ruby-DOOM
> 62GB
Whew!! That's pretty cool. I'll have to remember that next number time a "PostgreSQL for large databases" thread arises...
> single tables with over 100 million records
Sweet. How big is the PGDATA directory? Must be gigabytes.... mine is only 250 MB....
> PostgreSQL has so much more speed,
> stamina, strength and beauty.
The PostgreSQL database on RubyForge has been slowly growing over the past year or so... it's up over 825K records and ticking along smoothly. I can't see ever going back to MySQL unless forced to...