rudyamid on November 24th, 2008 at 10:53 am

Without fail, every time Google releases something, the crowd is all over it.  I’m certainly a fan.  Other than the usual Google search, I use a lot of their applications on a daily basis.  Google does produce mostly good stuff, but some are just fluff.   Here’s the quick rundown:
Google Usefulness

Life Magazine photo archives on Google [...]

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rudyamid on June 5th, 2008 at 9:38 am

I’ve been trying to catch up on House MD episodes in the past 3 weeks. I’m hooked with the series because of Hugh Laurie’s acting, the writing, and the story telling. I’m especially amused with the radical diagnoses and treatments of the patients. I know the cures for the exotic diseases are somewhat made [...]

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rudyamid on April 24th, 2008 at 6:40 am

As Twitter’s usage increased recently (scalability issues notwithstanding), so has the invention of new applications to make the Twitter experience more enjoyable. These are the tools for Twitter that I’ve used, as I discovered them, in chronological order:

Twhirl
Hands down, one of the best user interface client for Twitter. It gives me the ability [...]

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rudyamid on January 28th, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Summary:

Adjust MySQL’s system variables.
Use tuning-primer.sh script.

The most active application of this blog requires the use a database system to store data such as this content, comments, tags, or links. The database of choice here is MySQL. By default, it comes with a default set of system variables, designed for common and light-weight use. [...]

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rudyamid on January 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

With the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems, it looks like Sun is poised to take over the Web Application business that has long been dominated by IBM and Oracle. Indeed, Sun will be the one stop shop for companies who wants to setup an Enterprise level web application, starting from their own Sparc [...]

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