HI Mark,
So,
>
> It's nearly the new year and the time for new projects. On my project
> radar for next year is "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
>
>
I think it depends on your write/read ratio. If it is read heavy then
replication and/or memcache will probably do the trick - on th
I'm coming back to the UK in January and will be moving around a lot
until we buy a house in May. Some of the places we'll be going won't
have Internet access and I think I'll need it to work, (anyone know of
any telecommute Perl contracts then, please let me know...) so I'm
thinking about getting
On 2008-12-19 00:55, "Peter Corlett" wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2008, at 21:12, James Laver wrote:
> [...]
>> I'm told by some london.pmers that nothing exists north of Watford
>> or south
>> of Wimbledon. Surely, then, these maps are fantasy?
>
> They are mistaken. There is nothing north of Hampstead n
On 18 Dec 2008, at 21:12, James Laver wrote:
[...]
I'm told by some london.pmers that nothing exists north of Watford
or south
of Wimbledon. Surely, then, these maps are fantasy?
They are mistaken. There is nothing north of Hampstead nor south of
the Thames. Likewise, there are only dragons
On 18 Dec 2008, at 23:24, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
If I may have a say about that, can we have something closer, and
maybe more traditional? It might be quite a while until I have a
good opportunity to attend a social meeting, and being this far away
from London sounds a bit lame... :)
Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 18 Dec 2008, at 16:45, Dave Cross wrote:
The heretics meeting will be on January 1st.
For those without a passport and thus unable to attend the 1st Jan
meeting abroad, if there are sufficient numbers (more than one) I
shall host something in the north-western corn
David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:45:37PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
The heretics meeting will be on January 1st.
Please pay no attention to the DEVILS in our midst. All right-minded
perl-mongers know that our OFFICIAL, ORTHODOX meetings are on the first
Thursday of the month, a
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Luis Motta Campos wrote:
I am staying at the Luxury Inn, 154 Tottenham Rd, and there will be
Internet connection there. If you're interested in showing me some nice
english pub and some nice english beers, please let me know.
insert mandatory plug for rgl.
http://london.r
On 18 Dec 2008, at 16:45, Dave Cross wrote:
The heretics meeting will be on January 1st.
For those without a passport and thus unable to attend the 1st Jan
meeting abroad, if there are sufficient numbers (more than one) I
shall host something in the north-western corner of Zone 1
with an amb
On 2008-12-18 20:40, "David Cantrell" wrote:
>
> We do now!
>
> Seeing that no-one will be working on that day or the day after, I've
> decided that we'll go a bit further afield this time, and visit this
> pub:
> http://www.thedorsetlewes.com/
No-one? Two of us will be playing scrabble in^W^
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 19:58, David Alban wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Chris Jack wrote:
>> 4) How many different variable types are there in Perl? Be as sensibly
>> voluminous in your answer as you are > able.
>>
>>
>> have been asked this in more interviews that I care to recal
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:45:37PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
> The heretics meeting will be on January 1st.
Please pay no attention to the DEVILS in our midst. All right-minded
perl-mongers know that our OFFICIAL, ORTHODOX meetings are on the first
Thursday of the month, and consequently there wi
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Chris Jack wrote:
> 4) How many different variable types are there in Perl? Be as sensibly
> voluminous in your answer as you are > able.
>
>
> have been asked this in more interviews that I care to recall and generally
> interviewers seem to be looking > for 3
Having written the quiz, and as actual answers seem to have faded to a trickle,
I thought I ought to offer some sample answers of my own. Apologies ahead of
time for any line break issues - but I have tried my hardest to avoid them!
1) Name as many different reasons Larry Wall has given for ho
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:19:06AM +, Mark Fowler said:
> What's the collective group think on these? Obviously (for this list, at
> least) the app that will be accessing the database is Perl based, so I'm
> only considering compatible technologies at the moment.
We use Data::ObjectDriver w
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Hmm... it appears to work OK for me on FF (3.0.4 Mac)
>
> I've explicitly added a white background to the #body div on top to see if
> that helps. But I'm playing blind here so you'll need to be my eyes.
>
>> Oh, and it works fine for me with
Luis Motta Campos wrote:
> I will be in London for the first time ever between the afternoon of
> the 28th of December and the morning of the 4th of January. As Thrusday
> the 1st is a Social Meeting, I wonder if there will be one, or if I
> should ask around for some nice Londoners for an emerge
James Laver wrote:
Quick investigation with firebug tells me that firefox thinks the
background the text is on is some darkish orange/brown so it chose a
nice white background to help it stand out... I assume it's some
bizarre div stacking bug.
Hmm... it appears to work OK for me on FF (3.0.4 M
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Jonathan Stowe
wrote:
> 2008/12/18 James Laver :
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Andy Wardley wrote:
>>> Behold!
>>>
>>> http://london.pm.org/
>>>
>>> There's a few pages not building properly... working on that now.
>>>
>>> A
>>>
>>
>> Brilliant stuff! Look
Hoy, Londoners.
For the very first time since I started writing to this list, in 2002,
I will be at London for the New Year's Eve.
I am looking for a place to have dinner and see the fireworks near The
London Eye, would appreciate if you can point me to a place where stills
possible to make
I will be in London for the first time ever between the afternoon of
the 28th of December and the morning of the 4th of January. As Thrusday
the 1st is a Social Meeting, I wonder if there will be one, or if I
should ask around for some nice Londoners for an emergency social.
Sad to say that I
2008/12/18 Andy Wardley :
> Behold!
>
> http://london.pm.org/
This is wonderful! Thanks for your hard work, Andy.
Léon
Mark Fowler wrote:
So,
It's nearly the new year and the time for new projects. On my project
radar for next year is "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
Standard consultant question: Why?
"go faster/scale up" is not a good reason.
If you just wanted to go faster you would have
Simon Wilcox wrote:
> proudtouseperl isn't a site that a manager or other person deciding
> about perl is likely to come across. We need a success site that is very
> visible, linked from perl.org and high up on the search rankings.
Thanks for that. You really gave me a lot more fuel to keep writi
Denny wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:06 +, Denny wrote:
>> If you have any tales of high-profile, large-scale, or otherwise
>> interesting Perl systems you've deployed recently then we'd love to hear
>> them.
>
> It's been pointed out to me that projects which were not started
> recently, a
2008/12/18 Denny :
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:25 +, Dave Cross wrote:
>> Denny wrote:
>> > Inspired by this month's discussions about Perl community websites,
>> > we* have started Yet Another Perl Website.
>>
>> Sounds like a similar idea to http://proudtouseperl.org/.
>
> So it does! Damn yo
2008/12/18 Andy Wardley :
> Behold!
>
> http://london.pm.org/
>
Yay!
That's groovy ;-)
2008/12/18 James Laver :
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Andy Wardley wrote:
>> Behold!
>>
>> http://london.pm.org/
>>
>> There's a few pages not building properly... working on that now.
>>
>> A
>>
>
> Brilliant stuff! Looks much improved!
>
> One thing I've just noticed is that I can't seem
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Stowe
wrote:
> 2008/12/18 Martin A. Brooks :
>> Mark Fowler wrote:
>>>
>>> "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
>>
>> Is that when you throw it against the wall really, really, hard?
>
> Or make the DBAs roll naked in a bathtub of broken glass
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Mark Fowler wrote:
>
> So,
>
> It's nearly the new year and the time for new projects. On my project radar
> for next year is "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
There's a bunch of articles on Flickr out there, this one seems pretty decent,
http:/
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Andy Wardley wrote:
> Behold!
>
> http://london.pm.org/
>
> There's a few pages not building properly... working on that now.
>
> A
>
Brilliant stuff! Looks much improved!
One thing I've just noticed is that I can't seem to select text in the
main body of the p
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> 2008/12/18 Martin A. Brooks :
>> Mark Fowler wrote:
>>> "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
>> Is that when you throw it against the wall really, really, hard?
>
> Or make the DBAs roll naked in a bathtub of broken glass until they
> sort the performance proble
Andy Wardley wrote:
> Behold!
>
> http://london.pm.org/
Awful! It's barely readable on Netscape 2.0!
Seriously - good work. Does the new site mean we'll all have to shave,
wear polo-necks and drink frappucinos or some such?
> There's a few pages not building properly... working on that now.
2008/12/18 Martin A. Brooks :
> Mark Fowler wrote:
>>
>> "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
>
> Is that when you throw it against the wall really, really, hard?
Or make the DBAs roll naked in a bathtub of broken glass until they
sort the performance problems out.
On 18 Dec 2008, at 12:39, Andy Wardley wrote:
Behold!
http://london.pm.org/
Lovely!
--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten
Andy Wardley wrote:
> Mark Fowler wrote:
>> What's the collective group think on these?
>
> There's a good series of articles on sharding starting here:
>
> http://lifescaler.com/2008/04/database-sharding-unraveled-part-i/
>
> The conclusion I drew from it was that functional partitioning
> (whe
Mark Fowler wrote:
"consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
Is that when you throw it against the wall really, really, hard?
Behold!
http://london.pm.org/
There's a few pages not building properly... working on that now.
A
2008/12/18 Dave Hodgkinson :
>
> "sharding" is a horrible term.
>
But the computing 2.0 neophytes have to have obscure neologisms - it
would be an affront to their freedom of thought to use a term that
everyone else understands.
2008/12/18 Léon Brocard :
>>
>> HK Diner
>> 22 Wardour Street
>> Chinatown,
>> London W1D 6QQ
>> Leicester Square Tube Station
>> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=W1D6QQ
>> http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/reviews/9306.html
>> http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?HK_Diner%2C_W1D_6QJ
>
>
On 18 Dec 2008, at 10:19, Mark Fowler wrote:
So,
It's nearly the new year and the time for new projects. On my
project radar for next year is "consider (better) sharding our MySQL
database."
There's really good stuff in the Sybase Unleashed book on horizontal
and vertical partitioning
Mark Blackman wrote:
What remains for this shininess to be made live?
The gate keeper of the London.pm fortress hath just this hour granted
me access after much wrangling with the dragons of ssh and walls of fire.
Verily now that I have entered shall I proceed to make shiny the castle
walls.
Mark Fowler wrote:
What's the collective group think on these?
There's a good series of articles on sharding starting here:
http://lifescaler.com/2008/04/database-sharding-unraveled-part-i/
The conclusion I drew from it was that functional partitioning
(where possible) was much easier to impl
On 18 Dec 2008, at 11:46, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
2008/12/18 Mark Blackman :
On 14 Dec 2008, at 18:33, Andy Wardley wrote:
Léon Brocard wrote:
Andy, care to put your changes live?
All checked in. It'll need to be built on the target machine.
What remains for this shininess to be made li
2008/12/18 Mark Blackman :
> On 14 Dec 2008, at 18:33, Andy Wardley wrote:
>
>> Léon Brocard wrote:
>>>
>>> Andy, care to put your changes live?
>>>
>>
>> All checked in. It'll need to be built on the target machine.
>
> What remains for this shininess to be made live?
Well the only remaining imp
On 14 Dec 2008, at 18:33, Andy Wardley wrote:
Léon Brocard wrote:
Andy, care to put your changes live?
All checked in. It'll need to be built on the target machine.
What remains for this shininess to be made live?
- Mark
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:25 +, Dave Cross wrote:
> Denny wrote:
> > Inspired by this month's discussions about Perl community websites,
> > we* have started Yet Another Perl Website.
>
> Sounds like a similar idea to http://proudtouseperl.org/.
So it does! Damn your prior art! :)
So, peopl
Dave Cross wrote:
Denny wrote:
Inspired by this month's discussions about Perl community websites, we*
have started Yet Another Perl Website.
Sounds like a similar idea to http://proudtouseperl.org/.
I guess it is.
/me goes looking.
I feel a bit deflated that we've done a load of work that
2008/12/18 Paul LeoNerd Evans :
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:54:40 +0100
> "Philip Newton" wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:47, Torsten Knorr wrote:
>> > Who is Haiku?
>>
>> Not who; what.
>>
>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
>
> Or maybe you'll find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku more
2008/12/18 Mark Fowler
> It's nearly the new year and the time for new projects. On my project
> radar for next year is "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
I came across this and noted it for future reference:
http://spockproxy.sourceforge.net/ - doh, just read the rest of your e
Denny wrote:
> Inspired by this month's discussions about Perl community websites, we*
> have started Yet Another Perl Website.
Sounds like a similar idea to http://proudtouseperl.org/.
Dave...
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:06 +, Denny wrote:
> If you have any tales of high-profile, large-scale, or otherwise
> interesting Perl systems you've deployed recently then we'd love to hear
> them.
It's been pointed out to me that projects which were not started
recently, and which are still going
So,
It's nearly the new year and the time for new projects. On my project
radar for next year is "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
Now I understand the basic principles behind this and can, if needs
be, implement my own wheel, but before I do I'd love to find out what
ever
Inspired by this month's discussions about Perl community websites, we*
have started Yet Another Perl Website.
We're aiming to collect Perl success stories - similar to those O'Reilly
used to gather here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/news/success_stories.html
The intention is to p
I have a vague idea that this project is somehow london.pm related -
so I hope this is a good way to report that since yesterday the main
wiki page (http://emailproject.perl.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page)
displays a database error:
A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate
On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:10, "Léon Brocard" wrote:
2008/12/16 Léon Brocard :
We've been out a bit west recently, so it's time to head back into
Chinatown and try a restaurant I've been meaning to visit.
As I failed to point out earlier, today is also the 21st Birthday of
Perl!
$ perldoc per
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:54:40 +0100
"Philip Newton" wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 02:47, Torsten Knorr wrote:
> > Who is Haiku?
>
> Not who; what.
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
Or maybe you'll find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku more useful :)
--
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
leon.
2008/12/16 Léon Brocard :
> We've been out a bit west recently, so it's time to head back into
> Chinatown and try a restaurant I've been meaning to visit.
As I failed to point out earlier, today is also the 21st Birthday of Perl!
$ perldoc perlhist | grep 1.000 | head -1
Larry 1.000
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