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Category Archives: Web
Dinner on June 7th
I’m going to the dinner on June 7th being organised by Damien Mulley. Should be a good crowd there, including Britt Blaser.
I may even make it to the infamous Web 2.0 Conference the next day.
kick.ie – Irish news, community driven.
kick.ie is a site like digg.com but for Irish news and sites.
They linked to my photoblog which is how I became aware of it.
Tim O’Reilly’s attack on IT@Cork for using the term “Web 2.0” as their conference name is shocking. They have a trademark on the phrase “Web 2.0” so be careful about labeling your website or blog posts!
RSS Overload
The thing about being away is that stuff collects.. My bloglines aggregator is now chock a block with feeds containing 20 or more posts. A few sites such as /. and el register have hit the max of 200. I shall probably do the equivalent of mark all as read for many of them. I already did that several times in Thunderbird!
Life’s too short..
I listened to one podcast
I listened to one podcast, no, maybe two podcasts in their entirety. One promised a keyword for a competition to win a camera or some prize, and the other was Mark and Ciaran’s Nightsight, a videocast which I enjoyed despite not mentioning Web 2.0 anywhere! Maybe that was a good thing, considering the objective of the movie..
In a similar vein, all the videos on blogs thanks to youtube are great! Even though Pomme and Kelly were among the most popular bloggers on WordPress.com for the past few weeks I only saw their version of Respect this morning. They are the very first Google Idols apparently. They’re a little mad aren’t they? 🙂
InnoDB: Starting shutdown…
Calling all MySQL admins! When you’re working with InnoDB tables you may have noticed that MySQL takes an extraordinary amount of time to shutdown. Don’t panic! It’s normal.
InnoDB has extensive logs that it must run through and if your server is at all busy these logs can be quite big.
After you’ve started the equivalent of “/etc/init.d/mysql stop” it may not return for quite a while. Simply open another terminal and examine the system log. On a Debian or Ubuntu box, look at /var/log/daemon.log and you’ll see the “InnoDB: Starting shutdown…” message.
Now, go off and make a cup of tea because this could take a while. On a fairly large and busy database it might be half an hour or more!
Please, please, please don’t be tempted to killall -9 mysqld because bad things will happen! Even if your boss is looking over your shoulder, and you’ve promised that the company webserver will be online in 2 minutes, don’t do it.
However, cases where it is ok to kill the database with a “kill -9”:
- International terrorists are planning on robbing the World Bank and you’re the only secret agent who can bring down the database which will stop them.
- Lassie will be run over by the evil farmer who plagued the local village with his monster cows unless you can corrupt his database in time.
- Or finally, you like hard work and restoring from backups!
Site registration – why make it hard?
I used to work at a company providing financial data nd services online. When a potential customer wanted to register they had to go through about 6 pages before they were a member of the site. Unfortunately we were constrained by outside forces but having to go through Terms and Conditions, personal details forms, choosing a product, choosing exchanges, agreeing to exchange agreements and more to register was always going to be a major obstacle!
That’s why I smiled when I read today’s OK/Cancel. 🙂
Thankfully at the new job, signing up is a lot easier!
Irish Blog Awards – You can start voting now!
Damien announced this evening that voting is now open for the Irish Blog Awards. I’m nominated in 3 sections:
- Best Personal Blog (this blog)
- Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere (for WordPress)
- Best Photo Blog (for In Photos)
If you’re familiar with the Irish B(l)oggersphere you’ll know a lot of the names, but if you’re not, follow the links to at least a few of the blogs and have a good read. Then decide who’ll get your vote. Vote for me if you think I deserve it!
Thank you to those who nominated me, I’m going to have a peek at the other entries now!
CorkBlogs.com Goes Live
Donal noticed that Corkblogs.com is live!
It’s not aggregating many blogs yet but that should improve with time as it comes from the Irish Blogs people who did such a great job on that site.
Donal listed a few of the Cork blogs he knows about and I added a few in a comment. Know any more?
Useful Uses Of RSS
Rich Ziade has listed a number of ways to use RSS more creatively than just reading news headlines from blogs.
One of my favourite non-blog rss feeds is the Flickr Interestingness photo feed which isn’t listed, but I’ll have to look up the comics feed mentioned above! 🙂