My Open Source projects that still live on

7 years ago

I have recently created a new library called libMariaS3 for a couple of teams at MariaDB which provides a simple…

Solving my Intel GPU performance issues

7 years ago

For the last few days I had my laptop connected to an external monitor which has a 2560x1600 resolution. Whilst…

KDE Plasma Testing With Kubuntu

8 years ago

After my previous post on testing KDE Plasma on KDE Neon my friend and colleague Max commented with "Any thoughts…

Another week with KDE Plasma

8 years ago

At the beginning of the year I gave KDE Plasma a try as the primary desktop on one of my…

Making WiFi Great Again

8 years ago

TL;DR: Ubiquity UniFi gear is awesome! When I moved into my current house one of the bigger technical challenges has…

MariaDB source visualisation with Gource

8 years ago

Gource is a tool which can take a source code tree and create beautiful visualisations out of it. I've used…

One week with KDE Plasma

8 years ago

My go-to Linux distribution when I'm setting up my workstations is Fedora. I have been using it since Fedora Core…

Coding and decoding crash dump handlers

8 years ago

All software has bugs. Even if you could possibly write the perfect bug free software all the layers down have…

Correcting MariaDB ColumnStore Benchmarks

9 years ago

With MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1 Beta now released I quickly checked Twitter today to see what the response so far has…

How MariaDB ColumnStore’s filenames work

9 years ago

Unlike most storage engines, MariaDB ColumnStore does not store its data files in the datadir. Instead these are stored in…