Re: Production databases on SSDs?

2009-11-11 Thread Mark Fowler
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Dave Webb dave+london...@star.lovefilm.com wrote: We've been using a fusion-io 160GB drive in production for about a year now. It is hosting partial replicas of a couple of our databases (mysql) for an operation that needs two largeish data sets. And for the

Re: Production databases on SSDs?

2009-11-11 Thread Dave Webb
Mark Fowler wrote: Are you using any special kind of SSD tailored storage engine on these, or just placing a stock InnoDB / MyISAM on the device? Mark. The SSD replicas are stock MyISAM only, though the masters are a mixture with InnoDB. The initial speedup from disc array to SSD was

Re: git vs mercurial

2009-11-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Tom Hukins t...@eborcom.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:58:12AM +, James Laver wrote: I used mercurial in a nondistributed fashion at $previous_work and that was a disaster. One guy kept pushing every 30 seconds and I couldn't get a commit in

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emergency Social 12-Nov-09 - The Star Tavern SW1X 8HT

2009-11-11 Thread Gianni Ceccarelli
This is tomorrow! See you there. On 2009-11-09 Sue spence virtual...@pennine.com wrote: Why? Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar) is visiting from Italy. Gianni is one of the founders of perl.it (http://www.perl.it/), helped organise Italian Perl Workshop 2009 and will no doubt be involved with next

Open contracts

2009-11-11 Thread James Laver
The contract market is looking a bit down still and I'm not used to not having my phone go off every 5 minutes. Do we know any perl-using companies in london who are looking for the services of contractors at the current time? --James

Re: Open contracts

2009-11-11 Thread Peter Corlett
On 11 Nov 2009, at 13:21, James Laver wrote: The contract market is looking a bit down still and I'm not used to not having my phone go off every 5 minutes. Mine has been fairly busy the last few days. And only one timewaster too: a permie junior PHP/JOAT role somewhere rural on the

Re: Open contracts

2009-11-11 Thread Steve Mynott
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:42:58PM +, Peter Corlett typed: On 11 Nov 2009, at 13:21, James Laver wrote: The contract market is looking a bit down still and I'm not used to not having my phone go off every 5 minutes. Mine has been fairly busy the last few days. And only one timewaster

Re: Open contracts

2009-11-11 Thread Dave Cross
On 11/11/2009 01:21 PM, James Laver wrote: Do we know any perl-using companies in london who are looking for the services of contractors at the current time? Seems to me that all of the usual suspects are still looking. My phone isn't ringing off its (metaphorical) hook any more but I'm

Re: Merging Bash sources

2009-11-11 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:19:30AM +, James Laver said: Perhaps I'm overlooking something obvious, but why don't you just parse twice? Because I don't know where the config file is until I parse the command line options. I could getArgs . ${config_file} getArgs but I think Bash getopts

Re: Twitter modules

2009-11-11 Thread Andrew Black
Thanks fo the help everyone. I agree Net::Twitter is easy to get started with. Andrew

Last call for books

2009-11-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Anyone else want books brought to the emergency tomorrow? There are still some goodies in there, some Murakami and Yoshimoto as well as some brain ones. http://homepage.mac.com/davehodg/deliciouslibrary/ A few monies would be nice. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: