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.
16 Dec ’08
At just over ten years young, we’re pleased to introduce you to our first Creative Director.
12 Dec ’08
Please give a warm welcome to Jim Wright, our new Vice President of Finance.
12 Dec ’08
New people, new clients; it’s been a busy year for us at OmniTI. Meet some of the new faces.
20 Mar ’08
We have some serious personalities to contend with here at OmniTI. A vehicular event transpired today that truly exposes the psyche of a geek.
14 Mar ’08
Theo Schlossnagle talks with Mark Thacker of Sun about the features in Solaris that OmniTI uses to empower its customers.
10 Mar ’08
It is with a great sense of pride and exhaustion that we unveil our new identity and web site.
1 Mar ’08
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.
15 Jan ’08
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.
21 Dec ’08 from Jon Tan
’Twas the week before Christmas, and all was hectic in the house. Or, at least, …
20 Dec ’08 from Luke Welling
(This post originally appeared as part of the 2008 PHP Advent calendar) Java has its place. Ma…
16 Dec ’08 from Jon Tan
Ladies and gentlefolk, I give you the two-thousand and eight PHP Advent Calendar! As an aside…
12 Dec ’08 from Robert Treat
Well, it's been a long time (100 editions in fact!) since I have hosted a log buffer, but I t…
11 Dec ’08 from Paul Jones
My PHP Advent article is up; therein I try to describe the parallels between public frameworks…
9 Dec ’08 from Robert Treat
Just a couple of quick notes on the latest updates to pgsoltools (OmniTI's project for random…
8 Dec ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
A great success occurred for the Apache httpd project today. A month ago at ApacheCon I prese…
4 Dec ’08 from Robert Treat
OK, I don't expect every Open Source community to be able to avoid overlapping conferences, b…
1 Dec ’08 from Chris Shiflett
Is it December again already? I like good traditions, so with the help of Sean and many others…
1 Dec ’08 from Sean Coates
I've got a bunch of stuff that I haven't found/made time to blog about, so just dropping some …
1 Dec ’08 from Robert Treat
For those who missed the (non) announcement, MySQL quietly (it's not actually listed under th…
9 Nov ’08 from Chris Shiflett
While Sean was visiting the NY office this past week, he noticed a Facebook message from one o…
8 Nov ’08 from Robert Treat
Saturday morning we got up a little later than we should have, so we skipped the breakfast at…
7 Nov ’08 from Paul Jones
This post is in response to http://terrychay.com/blog/article/challenges-and-choices.shtml, sp…
5 Nov ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
DTrace kicks ass. Everyone knows I love ZFS, but in my opinion DTrace is the most significant…
5 Nov ’08 from Paul Jones
Ray Kolbe has posted the first of a series of blog entries about using the “solar”…
5 Nov ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
I met Bryan Cantrill a few years back at OSCON where he gave a session on DTrace. As any read…
3 Nov ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
There is a pleasant dream where the world is black and white, problems are discreet, and solu…
1 Nov ’08 from Robert Treat
We often see people asking on the Postgres mailing lists about re-ordering columns of existin…
31 Oct ’08 from Chris Shiflett
With a gentle prod from Jon, I've been reading about the hot topic of font linking. I have as …
27 Oct ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
I'm exciting that the Universidade Federal de Goiás or Brazil has a course called: "Scalable…
27 Oct ’08 from Paul Jones
I admit that I am an unproductive whiner on this issue. I don’t care if namespaces go in…
25 Oct ’08 from Robert Treat
The United States PostgreSQL Association is currently holding elections for new board members…
19 Oct ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Two weeks ago was a whirlwind. I thought I'd catch up last week and blog about it, but it was…
2 Oct ’08 from Sean Coates
A while back, I blogged about trust on the web, and how there are a lot of assumptions made by…
1 Oct ’08 from Sean Coates
UPDATE (and intentionally reinserted into the feed):I've made a bunch of changes to this code,…
21 Sep ’08 from Sean Coates
My first network connection device was a 2400 baud modem. Practically speaking, that would all…
19 Sep ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
With the release of ZFS on Solaris 10, I sat down and marveled at the opportunities for off-s…
18 Sep ’08 from Paul Jones
After a long delay (almost a year) Solar has a new release: version 1.0.0alpha2. You ca read m…
17 Sep ’08 from Robert Treat
I'm in the midst of moving a Bacula system from Sqlite to Postgres, and I've got to say it's …
16 Sep ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
So, you have an app. You can't change the code. Now this isn't the common case when I try to …
13 Sep ’08 from Robert Treat
I think these use to be on the OmnitTI website, but must have gotten lost in the shuffle, so …
10 Sep ’08 from Sean Coates
As you may have already heard, I've recently taken a position at OmniTI. Big changes in my lif…
6 Sep ’08 from Sean Coates
Hi all.Quick note to say that I've moved my blog from blog.phpdoc.info to seancoates.com, most…
4 Sep ’08 from Paul Jones
As many of you know, I maintain a series of web framework benchmarks. The project codebase is …
2 Sep ’08 from Robert Treat
Yesterday Neil mentioned his "systems" class at Berkely, which studies common themes among op…
2 Sep ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
A long time ago, I wrote integration into the portable version of OpenSSH to allow direct aut…
1 Sep ’08 from Paul Jones
By popular request, here is an update of my web framework benchmarks report. You can see previ…
31 Aug ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
I've been writing docs for Reconnoiter. I selected DocBook for two reasons. First, I hoped th…
28 Aug ’08 from Eric Sproul
Today I gave a technical presentation at the $DAYJOB about ZFS. ZFS rocks my world. As a sysa…
25 Aug ’08 from Paul Jones
In the spirit of some other framework projects, the Solar Framework for PHP 5 now offers a rea…
24 Aug ’08 from Chris Shiflett
There are numerous reasons you might want to inspect HTTP when debugging a problem. If you've …
20 Aug ’08 from Paul Jones
Several developers have asked me what “BREAD” means in web applications. Most ever…
20 Aug ’08 from Chris Shiflett
I'll be visiting Cincinnati briefly tomorrow (Thu, 21 Aug 2008) to give my talk entitled Secur…
20 Aug ’08 from Paul Jones
As many of you know, I’ve been the lead of many different PHP libraries over the years: …
10 Aug ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Varnish is a "bad ass" new HTTP caching accelerator. It's developed by some crufty old BSD ha…
8 Aug ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Howdy folks, This is a reminder that our monthly meetup is scheduled to take place this comin…
8 Aug ’08 from Chris Shiflett
Today is 8/8/8, which is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is that it marks the end …
8 Aug ’08 from Robert Treat
This has been going around the net a little bit, but for those who haven't seen it, check out…
8 Aug ’08 from Paul Jones
The folks at php.net have given me a very nice birthday present. As of today, they are end-of-…
7 Aug ’08 from Paul Jones
(Yes, I know, I’ve done no blogging in far too long. I’ve got a stack of stuff to …
31 Jul ’08 from Chris Shiflett
Another OSCON has come and gone. It was a very busy week filled with talks, work, social event…
27 Jul ’08 from Robert Treat
Just some quick notes on things that happened @ oscon 2008. 1) Synopsis of news stories for …
24 Jul ’08 from Eric Sproul
Ed Felten's latest post on his "Freedom to Tinker" blog, entitled What's the Cyber in Cyber-S…
24 Jul ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Hello from OSCON. I gave my full-stack introspection crash course talk today. It has been qui…
23 Jul ’08 from Luke Welling
Here are the slides for my talk today at OSCON. Keep the disclaimer at the start at the front …
23 Jul ’08 from Robert Treat
The other night I was having dinner with a bunch of folks, and I think it was Jacob Kaplan-Mo…
22 Jul ’08 from Robert Treat
For those who can't wait for O'Reilly or Slideshare to get their act together, here is a OOo …
17 Jul ’08 from Robert Treat
A couple months ago we started talking seriously about replacing CVS with a more advanced sys…
6 Jul ’08 from Greg Chiasson
Since I moved to New York, I’ve found myself facing an extra hour and a half a day on th…
4 Jul ’08 from Robert Treat
Index pruning Last week I ran across two different blog posts discussing removing duplicate …
2 Jul ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Oren Hurvitz has a great post about LinkedIn's architecture. It's well-written and well thoug…
28 Jun ’08 from Robert Treat
I'm not sure if this is official, but I noticed that reconnoiter got it's own fully fledge pr…
27 Jun ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Reconnoiter is coming along. Unlike most open source project, I tend not to talk about mine u…
25 Jun ’08 from Robert Treat
Lukas' recent post on solving the prepared statement problem got wondering, if open source da…
22 Jun ’08 from Robert Treat
When you work at a technology consulting firm, you're going to eventually be involved in fixi…
17 Jun ’08 from Robert Treat
Taking a page out of the Slashdot manual, Zdnet and a host of other sites have begun foisteri…
10 Jun ’08 from Robert Treat
The other day we were discussing the alter table add foreign key implementation, and Tom Lane…
3 Jun ’08 from Robert Treat
Just tossing this out there on the chance it might be useful for others. This script, dubbed …
29 May ’08 from Robert Treat
Ok, in an effort to get people to stop harassing me about a lack of posting during PGCon, I n…
22 May ’08 from Robert Treat
Just a quick note from pgcon, I've uploaded my slides to slideshare for those that want to ta…
20 May ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Today's Internet has changed quite a bit from the Internet I used to know. The Internet has a…
18 May ’08 from Chris Shiflett
This past week, I noticed several feeds I poll for Planet Chris are broken. In a few cases, it…
13 May ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Hi all! Just a friendly reminder that we'll be having our first meetup tomorrow as planned. I…
6 May ’08 from Chris Shiflett
I like OpenID. I've been an avid user (and consumer) of OpenID for well over a year now, but I…
27 Apr ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
I just registered for OSCON. They say I should advertise that I am a speaker. Here goes. For …
23 Apr ’08 from Greg Chiasson
So, I’m back in Maryland. Work wanted me down here tomorrow and Friday, which turned int…
23 Apr ’08 from Robert Treat
One common discussion we see on the postgresql mailing lists is that of how to track changes …
22 Apr ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
Today someone asked me: "You speak about ZFS a lot. I know other people that talk about the l…
21 Apr ’08 from Robert Treat
Well, I booked my tickets this morning for PGCon 2008. Against my better judgement, I've book…
15 Apr ’08 from Robert Treat
Over the weekend I had a chance to catch up on some of my favorite database oriented blogs, a…
14 Apr ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
On the second Wednesday of every month, the Baltimore/Washington PostgreSQL User Group will m…
13 Apr ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
I recently attended dtrace.conf(08), which was a blast, but I left that conference with a sin…
9 Apr ’08 from Robert Treat
I had mentioned to a few people our TB+ disaster recovery scheme at the PG-East conference la…
9 Apr ’08 from Chris Shiflett
If you're wondering what happened to the design, it's gone! I'm participating in CSS Naked Day…
8 Apr ’08 from Robert Treat
Doesn't seem like this received much chatter, but there are a couple of reasons why Compiere …
5 Apr ’08 from Wez Furlong
I'm pleased to announce that I'll be speaking at OSCON again. I have the pleasure of co-pre…
4 Apr ’08 from Robert Treat
Just a heads up that I'll once again be heading to Portland this summer for OSCon 2008. I'll …
30 Mar ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
For those interested, here is my slide stack from PostgreSQL Conference East '08. I think th…
29 Mar ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
I just attended the Keynote by Joshua Drake from Command Prompt. There are a lot of good move…
26 Mar ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
I was just surfing Planet PostgreSQL and read Selena Deckelmann's blog post that said the 200…
25 Mar ’08 from Robert Treat
So EnterpriseDB had a number of announcements today; a re-alignment of their product line, th…
18 Mar ’08 from Robert Treat
In case you haven't heard, the schedule for PGCon 2008 has finally been announced, and I am h…
16 Mar ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
New acquaintances walk away from their first conversation with me and either think that I am …
14 Mar ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
As many people already know, I'm a big fan of DTrace. Well, today I attended dtrace.conf(08) …
13 Mar ’08 from Chris Shiflett
We launched a new web site for OmniTI on Monday, complete with a new identity designed by Jon…
9 Mar ’08 from Paul Jones
When it comes to coding style, there are are various ideas about how you should write the indi…
17 Feb ’08 from Chris Shiflett
My sunburned feet have healed, so that means it's time to recap my trip to New Zealand for the…
16 Feb ’08 from Paul Jones
I remain unconvinced of the benefits of test-first and test-driven development (TDD) because I…
12 Feb ’08 from Luke Welling
I noticed an interesting comment on this blog while deleting comment spam a few days ago. 1. …
8 Feb ’08 from Robert Treat
In OmniTI world, as we work through evaluting and planning our first set of PostgreSQL 8.3 mi…
7 Feb ’08 from Chris Shiflett
All publicity is good publicity, right? I'm not so sure. Last week, CIO Magazine published an …
5 Feb ’08 from Luke Welling
If you have a WordPress blog it would be worth your time to install this update to 2.3.3, or a…
3 Feb ’08 from Luke Welling
I have gotten pretty good at staying out of language flame wars recently. Usually, when some w…
1 Feb ’08 from Wez Furlong
I've got a couple of full-time positions open on my engineering team. We believe in a fun but …
29 Jan ’08 from Chris Shiflett
A post entitled SmugMug's Private Pics Are Public caught my eye yesterday. The news doesn't so…
25 Jan ’08 from Wez Furlong
You may be aware that we're starting discussions on the future of PDO; despite being pretty go…
23 Jan ’08 from Wez Furlong
I was scheduled to appear at PHP London 2008, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I've had to…
22 Jan ’08 from Wez Furlong
At the start of this year, we spun off the email product side of OmniTI into its own entity, M…
22 Jan ’08 from Robert Treat
Ok, it might look small next to Sun's recent purchase, but congratulations all the same to th…
17 Jan ’08 from Robert Treat
I'm happy to say that, for those heading to PgCon this year (What? You're not really going to…
17 Jan ’08 from Robert Treat
This morning when I walked into the office, Theo asked "Did you hear the news?". When I didn'…
16 Jan ’08 from Theo Schlossnagle
I'm sitting in the SFO airport waiting to sit on a plane for 6 hours to fly home from the O'…
10 Jan ’08 from Paul Jones
This guyHasin Hayder has finally realized that there’s no need for Smarty’s templa…
8 Jan ’08 from Paul Jones
The last time I wrote about Dirk Karkles, we learned that “do your best” is not a …
6 Jan ’08 from Chris Shiflett
Posting highlights of the previous year has become a blogging cliché, but this is my 5th co…
6 Jan ’08 from Robert Treat
A new version of Pagila, the PostgreSQL sample database, has been released. This version of t…
