Work

My Open Source projects that still live on

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

6 years ago

Solving my Intel GPU performance issues

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

6 years ago

KDE Plasma Testing With Kubuntu

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

6 years ago

Another week with KDE Plasma

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

6 years ago

MariaDB source visualisation with Gource

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

7 years ago

One week with KDE Plasma

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

7 years ago

Coding and decoding crash dump handlers

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

7 years ago

Correcting MariaDB ColumnStore Benchmarks

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

7 years ago

How MariaDB ColumnStore’s filenames work

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

7 years ago

Protocol reverse engineering with tcpdump

Sometimes network protocols don't entirely behave as documented. Other times there is no documentation at all beyond code. Either way…

7 years ago