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OmniTI News in 2008

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The year of 2008 started off with a bang and has quite a bit more excitement in store. OmniTI took the internal division that designed and developed the Ecelerity mail server and spun off Message Systems, Inc.

News

  1. Say Hi to Jon Tan

    At just over ten years young, we’re pleased to introduce you to our first Creative Director.

  2. Meet Jim Wright, Our New VP of Finance

    Please give a warm welcome to Jim Wright, our new Vice President of Finance.

  3. Extending the Family

    New people, new clients; it’s been a busy year for us at OmniTI. Meet some of the new faces.

  4. Expressing Our Inner Geek

    We have some serious personalities to contend with here at OmniTI. A vehicular event transpired today that truly exposes the psyche of a geek.

  5. Theo Schlossnagle Talks with Sun

    Theo Schlossnagle talks with Mark Thacker of Sun about the features in Solaris that OmniTI uses to empower its customers.

  6. New Web Site

    It is with a great sense of pride and exhaustion that we unveil our new identity and web site.

  7. Ciprian Tutu, Director of Solutions Delivery

    In his new role as Director of Solutions Delivery, Ciprian Tutu will apply his sharp analytical and cat-herding skills to maintain the high quality of service we are known for.

  8. OmniTI in the Big Apple

    We're happy to announce the opening of our new office in Brooklyn, New York. Located in the heart of the DUMBO neighborhood, this office supports our growing web application security practice.

Blogs

  1. PHP !== Java

    (This post originally appeared as part of the 2008 PHP Advent calendar) Java has its place. Ma…

  2. Log Buffer #127: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

    Well, it's been a long time (100 editions in fact!) since I have hosted a log buffer, but I t…

  3. The Framework as Franchise

    My PHP Advent article is up; therein I try to describe the parallels between public frameworks…

  4. pgsoltools updates

    Just a couple of quick notes on the latest updates to pgsoltools (OmniTI's project for random…

  5. A month later... like clockwork.

    A great success occurred for the Apache httpd project today. A month ago at ApacheCon I prese…

  6. php|tek vs. PGCon, again

    OK, I don't expect every Open Source community to be able to avoid overlapping conferences, b…

  7. Recent Happenings

    I've got a bunch of stuff that I haven't found/made time to blog about, so just dropping some …

  8. MySQL 5.1 is out, now what?

    For those who missed the (non) announcement, MySQL quietly (it's not actually listed under th…

  9. Beijing Perl Workshop 2008 Summary

    Saturday morning we got up a little later than we should have, so we skipped the breakfast at…

  10. Patterns of Intellectual Bullies

    This post is in response to http://terrychay.com/blog/article/challenges-and-choices.shtml, sp…

  11. DTrace and Apache

    DTrace kicks ass. Everyone knows I love ZFS, but in my opinion DTrace is the most significant…

  12. Solar CLI: Getting Started

    Ray Kolbe has posted the first of a series of blog entries about using the “solar”…

  13. Eloquence in technical prose.

    I met Bryan Cantrill a few years back at OSCON where he gave a session on DTrace. As any read…

  14. Systems Operations and Fishing.

    There is a pleasant dream where the world is black and white, problems are discreet, and solu…

  15. Column re-ording status

    We often see people asking on the Postgres mailing lists about re-ordering columns of existin…

  16. Scalability in Curriculum

    I'm exciting that the Universidade Federal de Goiás or Brazil has a course called: "Scalable…

  17. Escape from Namespaces

    I admit that I am an unproductive whiner on this issue. I don’t care if namespaces go in…

  18. Final week for Pg.US elections

    The United States PostgreSQL Association is currently holding elections for new board members…

  19. Whirlwind

    Two weeks ago was a whirlwind. I thought I'd catch up last week and blog about it, but it was…

  20. More Web of Trust Thoughts

    A while back, I blogged about trust on the web, and how there are a lot of assumptions made by…

  21. PHP-Aware Diff

    UPDATE (and intentionally reinserted into the feed):I've made a bunch of changes to this code,…

  22. Is Pagination Still Necessary?

    My first network connection device was a 2400 baud modem. Practically speaking, that would all…

  23. Zetaback. Respect.

    With the release of ZFS on Solaris 10, I sat down and marveled at the opportunities for off-s…

  24. Solar 1.0.0alpha2 released

    After a long delay (almost a year) Solar has a new release: version 1.0.0alpha2. You ca read m…

  25. Bacula, Sqlite, Postgres... when good tools go horribly horribly wrong

    I'm in the midst of moving a Bacula system from Sqlite to Postgres, and I've got to say it's …

  26. Last second scaling hack

    So, you have an app. You can't change the code. Now this isn't the common case when I try to …

  27. PostgreSQL Partitioning slides now on Slideshare

    I think these use to be on the OmnitTI website, but must have gotten lost in the shuffle, so …

  28. Personal Password Policies (and a cool script)

    As you may have already heard, I've recently taken a position at OmniTI. Big changes in my lif…

  29. Moved My Blog (and my job)

    Hi all.Quick note to say that I've moved my blog from blog.phpdoc.info to seancoates.com, most…

  30. Rasmus Lerdorf’s Laconic(a) Performance

    As many of you know, I maintain a series of web framework benchmarks. The project codebase is …

  31. ZFS, databases, and common threads

    Yesterday Neil mentioned his "systems" class at Berkely, which studies common themes among op…

  32. OpenSSH and SecurID, still a good choice.

    A long time ago, I wrote integration into the portable version of OpenSSH to allow direct aut…

  33. Labor Day Benchmarks

    By popular request, here is an update of my web framework benchmarks report. You can see previ…

  34. XML/XSLT and DocBook for docs

    I've been writing docs for Reconnoiter. I selected DocBook for two reasons. First, I hoped th…

  35. ZFS: Under the Hood

    Today I gave a technical presentation at the $DAYJOB about ZFS. ZFS rocks my world. As a sysa…

  36. Solar System

    In the spirit of some other framework projects, the Solar Framework for PHP 5 now offers a rea…

  37. BREAD, not CRUD

    Several developers have asked me what “BREAD” means in web applications. Most ever…

  38. Savant Has A New Owner

    As many of you know, I’ve been the lead of many different PHP libraries over the years: …

  39. Varnish, get your patch on.

    Varnish is a "bad ass" new HTTP caching accelerator. It's developed by some crufty old BSD ha…

  40. BWPUG: The essential PostgreSQL.conf

    Howdy folks, This is a reminder that our monthly meetup is scheduled to take place this comin…

  41. A webcomic for DBA's

    This has been going around the net a little bit, but for those who haven't seen it, check out…

  42. My Birthday Present From php.net

    The folks at php.net have given me a very nice birthday present. As of today, they are end-of-…

  43. Exceptional command-line PHP

    (Yes, I know, I’ve done no blogging in far too long. I’ve got a stack of stuff to …

  44. OSCon Quick Notes Review

    Just some quick notes on things that happened @ oscon 2008. 1) Synopsis of news stories for …

  45. Cyber-this, cyber-that

    Ed Felten's latest post on his "Freedom to Tinker" blog, entitled What's the Cyber in Cyber-S…

  46. OSCON2008 Presentation

    Hello from OSCON. I gave my full-stack introspection crash course talk today. It has been qui…

  47. OSCON 2008: SNAP - PHP Taint Tool

    Here are the slides for my talk today at OSCON. Keep the disclaimer at the start at the front …

  48. Certified Schizophrenic

    The other night I was having dinner with a bunch of folks, and I think it was Jacob Kaplan-Mo…

  49. My OSCon 2008 Slides

    For those who can't wait for O'Reilly or Slideshare to get their act together, here is a OOo …

  50. Git-r-done

    A couple months ago we started talking seriously about replacing CVS with a more advanced sys…

  51. get_them_ducats.pl: RSS parsing and screen-scraping, poorly.

    Since I moved to New York, I’ve found myself facing an extra hour and a half a day on th…

  52. Index pruning techniques

    Index pruning Last week I ran across two different blog posts discussing removing duplicate …

  53. Scalability and concessions

    Oren Hurvitz has a great post about LinkedIn's architecture. It's well-written and well thoug…

  54. reconnoiter goes... alpha

    I'm not sure if this is official, but I noticed that reconnoiter got it's own fully fledge pr…

  55. Reconnoiter and another platform

    Reconnoiter is coming along. Unlike most open source project, I tend not to talk about mine u…

  56. Could OSDB replace the SQL Standard Committe?

    Lukas' recent post on solving the prepared statement problem got wondering, if open source da…

  57. Dealing with out of disk issues for the abusive dba

    When you work at a technology consulting firm, you're going to eventually be involved in fixi…

  58. IBM is not Open Sourcing DB2! (yet)

    Taking a page out of the Slashdot manual, Zdnet and a host of other sites have begun foisteri…

  59. implementing no transaction mode in postgresql

    The other day we were discussing the alter table add foreign key implementation, and Tom Lane…

  60. ossdb-snapshot, lvm database snapshot tool

    Just tossing this out there on the chance it might be useful for others. This script, dubbed …

  61. PGCon 2008 Wrap-up

    Ok, in an effort to get people to stop harassing me about a lack of posting during PGCon, I n…

  62. DB Anti-Patterns slides on slideshare

    Just a quick note from pgcon, I've uploaded my slides to slideshare for those that want to ta…

  63. Dissecting today's Internet traffic spikes

    Today's Internet has changed quite a bit from the Internet I used to know. The Internet has a…

  64. BWPUG Meetup Reminder

    Hi all! Just a friendly reminder that we'll be having our first meetup tomorrow as planned. I…

  65. OSCON 2008: And now for something completely different.

    I just registered for OSCON. They say I should advertise that I am a speaker. Here goes. For …

  66. This wouldn’t fit in Twitter.

    So, I’m back in Maryland. Work wanted me down here tomorrow and Friday, which turned int…

  67. getddl now available

    One common discussion we see on the postgresql mailing lists is that of how to track changes …

  68. ZFS. Respect.

    Today someone asked me: "You speak about ZFS a lot. I know other people that talk about the l…

  69. Plane tickets booked for PGCon

    Well, I booked my tickets this morning for PGCon 2008. Against my better judgement, I've book…

  70. Where there's smoke, there's Kickfire

    Over the weekend I had a chance to catch up on some of my favorite database oriented blogs, a…

  71. Starting the Baltimore/Washington PostgreSQL User Group

    On the second Wednesday of every month, the Baltimore/Washington PostgreSQL User Group will m…

  72. Probing for Success

    I recently attended dtrace.conf(08), which was a blast, but I left that conference with a sin…

  73. Disaster recovery at 1000 GB's

    I had mentioned to a few people our TB+ disaster recovery scheme at the PG-East conference la…

  74. Compiere now running on PostgreSQL Plus Advanced Server (aka EnterpriseDB)

    Doesn't seem like this received much chatter, but there are a couple of reasons why Compiere …

  75. OSCON 2008

    I'm pleased to announce that I'll be speaking at OSCON again. I have the pleasure of co-pre…

  76. Speaking at OSCon 2008

    Just a heads up that I'll once again be heading to Portland this summer for OSCon 2008. I'll …

  77. PostgreSQL: Looking under the hood with Solaris

    For those interested, here is my slide stack from PostgreSQL Conference East '08. I think th…

  78. PostgreSQL Community

    I just attended the Keynote by Joshua Drake from Command Prompt. There are a lot of good move…

  79. PostgreSQL Conference East '08. Bring it... Yeah.

    I was just surfing Planet PostgreSQL and read Selena Deckelmann's blog post that said the 200…

  80. The enemy of my enemy is my friend

    So EnterpriseDB had a number of announcements today; a re-alignment of their product line, th…

  81. 5 Good Minutes

    In case you haven't heard, the schedule for PGCon 2008 has finally been announced, and I am h…

  82. Talking w/ Sun

    New acquaintances walk away from their first conversation with me and either think that I am …

  83. dtrace.conf(08)

    As many people already know, I'm a big fan of DTrace. Well, today I attended dtrace.conf(08) …

  84. Line Length, Volume, and Density

    When it comes to coding style, there are are various ideas about how you should write the indi…

  85. Why I Prefer Test-Later

    I remain unconvinced of the benefits of test-first and test-driven development (TDD) because I…

  86. Sweeping Bad Press Under The Rug Using Junk Blog Comments

    I noticed an interesting comment on this blog while deleting comment spam a few days ago. 1. …

  87. PostgreSQL Blog's 8.3 Feature Round-Up

    In OmniTI world, as we work through evaluting and planning our first set of PostgreSQL 8.3 mi…

  88. New Wordpress Version (With Security Fix)

    If you have a WordPress blog it would be worth your time to install this update to 2.3.3, or a…

  89. You Used PHP to Write That?! - Uh yeah.

    I have gotten pretty good at staying out of language flame wars recently. Usually, when some w…

  90. C and Test Engineer Jobs @ Message Systems

    I've got a couple of full-time positions open on my engineering team. We believe in a fun but …

  91. PDO 2 and CLA

    You may be aware that we're starting discussions on the future of PDO; despite being pretty go…

  92. PHP London 2008

    I was scheduled to appear at PHP London 2008, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I've had to…

  93. Message Systems, Inc.

    At the start of this year, we spun off the email product side of OmniTI into its own entity, M…

  94. $27 Million down, $973 Million to go

    Ok, it might look small next to Sun's recent purchase, but congratulations all the same to th…

  95. Getting to Ottawa by way of Dopplr

    I'm happy to say that, for those heading to PgCon this year (What? You're not really going to…

  96. Sun<<mysql

    This morning when I walked into the office, Theo asked "Did you hear the news?". When I didn'…

  97. A job, a mission, a career: all without a path or a name.

    I'm sitting in the SFO airport waiting to sit on a plane for 6 hours to fly home from the O'…

  98. Another Smarty Emigrant

    This guyHasin Hayder has finally realized that there’s no need for Smarty’s templa…

  99. There Is No Such Thing As “Multi-Tasking”

    The last time I wrote about Dirk Karkles, we learned that “do your best” is not a …

  100. pagila-0.10.0 Released

    A new version of Pagila, the PostgreSQL sample database, has been released. This version of t…