Gource is a tool which can take a source code tree and create beautiful visualisations out of it. I've used…
My go-to Linux distribution when I'm setting up my workstations is Fedora. I have been using it since Fedora Core…
All software has bugs. Even if you could possibly write the perfect bug free software all the layers down have…
With MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1 Beta now released I quickly checked Twitter today to see what the response so far has…
Unlike most storage engines, MariaDB ColumnStore does not store its data files in the datadir. Instead these are stored in…
I have a friend who was hit by a workforce reduction at a company I used to work at (as…
Sometimes network protocols don't entirely behave as documented. Other times there is no documentation at all beyond code. Either way…
Several years ago there was a fork of the unreleased MySQL 6.0 called Drizzle. It was designed to be a…
After my previous post about ack a Twitter follower, Nick Morrott, pointed out that there is a potentially better tool…
My day job requires me to spend a lot of time in Linux terminals, hammering away at MariaDB ColumnStore to…