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            <title>OSCON 2008: And now for something completely different.</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/115-OSCON-2008-And-now-for-something-completely-different..html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I just registered for OSCON. They say I should advertise that I am a speaker. Here goes. For the last several years, I've presented multiple talks at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. My Scalable Internet Architectures talk has been quite popular a...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ I just registered for OSCON. They say I should advertise that I am a speaker. Here goes. For the last several years, I've presented multiple talks at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference. My Scalable Internet Architectures talk has been quite popular and drawn large crowds. It is an interesting talk as it doesn't really change with time. As I say, "if principles of good engineering changed frequently, I'd never drive on bridges." The talk is about sound engineering approaches to building really ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:02:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>This wouldn&rsquo;t fit in Twitter.</title>
            <link>http://failurecasca.de/2008/04/this-wouldnt-fit-in-twitter/</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m back in Maryland. Work wanted me down here tomorrow and Friday, which turned into wanting me down here Tuesday through Friday. I changed my train tickets, woke up at 5 AM yesterday to get to Penn station (too early by about half an hour, ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m back in Maryland. Work wanted me down here tomorrow and Friday, which turned into wanting me down here Tuesday through Friday. I changed my train tickets, woke up at 5 AM yesterday to get to Penn station (too early by about half an hour, I might add, but that&#8217;s how I roll), and got to work. It&#8217;s actually nice to be back working back at the mothership again. The team I work with is all down here, and while we keep in touch over IM, phone, and email, it just can&#8217;t c...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:20:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>getddl now available</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/341-getddl-now-available.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ One common discussion we see on the postgresql mailing lists is that of how to track changes and do versioning of schema within a database. One of the common solutions offered is the idea of grabbing schema from the system catalogs, writing it to a fi...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ One common discussion we see on the postgresql mailing lists is that of how to track changes and do versioning of schema within a database. One of the common solutions offered is the idea of grabbing schema from the system catalogs, writing it to a file, and then committing that to svn. In theory you could write an elegant tool for such a task, but given the number of times someone has asked me to send them a copy of the script we use at OmniTI, I'm guess that even the hacky script we use will ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:16:37 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>ZFS. Respect.</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/114-ZFS.-Respect..html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Today someone asked me: "You speak about ZFS a lot. I know other people that talk about the latest filesystems with praise, but generally speaking they just don't have much to offer. Is ZFS that different?" My answer is "yes." But, of course, I can't ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Today someone asked me: "You speak about ZFS a lot. I know other people that talk about the latest filesystems with praise, but generally speaking they just don't have much to offer. Is ZFS that different?" My answer is "yes." But, of course, I can't leave it at that. I'm not going to make a performance argument -- ZFS is fast in some cases and slow in others -- just like everything else. I think one of the things we've seen in the last 10 years is that everyone felt the need to come out with t...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:16:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Plane tickets booked for PGCon</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/340-Plane-tickets-booked-for-PGCon.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Well, I booked my tickets this morning for PGCon 2008. Against my better judgement, I've booked tickets through Dulles, an airport which I really do not like, but which offers direct flights to Ottowa, something I can't get from BWI (Although BWI did ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Well, I booked my tickets this morning for PGCon 2008. Against my better judgement, I've booked tickets through Dulles, an airport which I really do not like, but which offers direct flights to Ottowa, something I can't get from BWI (Although BWI did offer a connecting flight through Atlanta...). I'll be arriving Monday night if anyone is in town that early, if not guess I will have time to work on my slides.   On an administrative note, the lightning talks are looking good, we'll have talks fr...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:59:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Where there&#039;s smoke, there&#039;s Kickfire</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/339-Where-theres-smoke,-theres-Kickfire.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Over the weekend I had a chance to catch up on some of my favorite database oriented blogs, and I noticed a number of them were mentioning the upcoming Kickfire engine/appliance based around MySQL. Always a sucker to read about Yet Another MySQL Engin...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Over the weekend I had a chance to catch up on some of my favorite database oriented blogs, and I noticed a number of them were mentioning the upcoming Kickfire engine/appliance based around MySQL. Always a sucker to read about Yet Another MySQL Engine, I looked through what little details there were (Kickfire had previewed their system to some of the more popular MySQL blogs in order to create some initial buzz ahead of the MySQL users conference; good ploy). I think the breakdown goes like th...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Starting the Baltimore/Washington PostgreSQL User Group</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/113-Starting-the-BaltimoreWashington-PostgreSQL-User-Group.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ On the second Wednesday of every month, the Baltimore/Washington PostgreSQL User Group will meet at 7070 Samuel Morse Drive, Ste 150 in Columbia, Maryland. Meetings start at 6:30pm and go until around 8:30pm. I am pretty excited about this and pleased...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ On the second Wednesday of every month, the Baltimore/Washington PostgreSQL User Group will meet at 7070 Samuel Morse Drive, Ste 150 in Columbia, Maryland. Meetings start at 6:30pm and go until around 8:30pm. I am pretty excited about this and pleased to offer up OmniTI's facilities for this. I'm excited about the opportunity to share what I've learned, educate and grow the PostgreSQL community and learn from others in it. This is going to be "good stuff." Our first meeting will be held on May ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:49:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Probing for Success</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/112-Probing-for-Success.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I recently attended dtrace.conf(08), which was a blast, but I left that conference with a single thought and it has been reinforced since. Everything should be dtrace enabled. While it is true that using DTrace you can introspect just about everything...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ I recently attended dtrace.conf(08), which was a blast, but I left that conference with a single thought and it has been reinforced since. Everything should be dtrace enabled. While it is true that using DTrace you can introspect just about everything in the system, the pid provider (used to trace inside user-space applications) requires the user to to know the code of the application. A full system "in-flight" has too many different apps running for me to keep all of their code-bases in my hea...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:08:22 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Disaster recovery at 1000 GB&#039;s </title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/338-Disaster-recovery-at-1000-GBs.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I had mentioned to a few people our TB+ disaster recovery scheme at the PG-East conference last week, with hopes that we would be doing a full on recovery test in early April. Lucky for us, we've been able to do a rough run through, so I wanted to rep...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ I had mentioned to a few people our TB+ disaster recovery scheme at the PG-East conference last week, with hopes that we would be doing a full on recovery test in early April. Lucky for us, we've been able to do a rough run through, so I wanted to report some results. First, a quick recap of why most of the common backup solutions suck for our needs:  pg_dump is pretty much a joke with 1TB+ of data, and especially on our system which has constant data churn, and enough mutating schema to make g...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:12:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>CSS Naked Day</title>
            <link>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/apr/css-naked-day</link>
            <guid>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/apr/css-naked-day</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[If you're wondering what happened to the design, it's gone! I'm participating in CSS Naked Day again to celebrate web standards and good design. True beauty is more than skin deep, and I'm proud of my blog's design. (Thanks again, Jon and Jon!) As a re...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[If you're wondering what happened to the design, it's gone! I'm participating in CSS Naked Day again to celebrate web standards and good design. True beauty is more than skin deep, and I'm proud of my blog's design. (Thanks again, Jon and Jon!) As a reminder, here's what this day is all about: The idea behind this event is to promote web standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (X)HTML, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ol' play on words. It's tim...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:58:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Compiere now running on PostgreSQL Plus Advanced Server (aka EnterpriseDB)</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/337-Compiere-now-running-on-PostgreSQL-Plus-Advanced-Server-aka-EnterpriseDB.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Doesn't seem like this received much chatter, but there are a couple of reasons why Compiere loosening it's bond with Oracle is interesting. On the EnterpriseDB side, it's interesting because to date, I haven't heard of any Oracle apps that have been ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Doesn't seem like this received much chatter, but there are a couple of reasons why Compiere loosening it's bond with Oracle is interesting. On the EnterpriseDB side, it's interesting because to date, I haven't heard of any Oracle apps that have been ported to their software, and now we have one that is out in the open, not just as an announcement, but according to the press release it is already installed at a customer site. Given the cost difference between EDB and Oracle, you can be sure thi...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>OSCON 2008</title>
            <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EvilAsInDr/~3/264630688/oscon-2008</link>
            <guid>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EvilAsInDr/~3/264630688/oscon-2008</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[   I'm pleased to announce that I'll be speaking at OSCON again. I have the pleasure of co-presenting an Extending PHP tutorial session with Marcus Boerger, giving a new talk entitled Hot Chocolate: Creating Cocoa apps with PHP, and the tried and true ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[   I'm pleased to announce that I'll be speaking at OSCON again. I have the pleasure of co-presenting an Extending PHP tutorial session with Marcus Boerger, giving a new talk entitled Hot Chocolate: Creating Cocoa apps with PHP, and the tried and true PDO Talk. As always, I'm looking forward to catching up on what's going on outside of my usual stack of software, meeting up with friends and making a visit to my favourite restaurant. I hope to see you there :-)...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:29:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Speaking at OSCon 2008</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/336-Speaking-at-OSCon-2008.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Just a heads up that I'll once again be heading to Portland this summer for OSCon 2008. I'll be giving an updated version of my "Pro PostgreSQL" tutorial, which aims to help anyone who has been handed the task of maintaining one or more postgresql ser...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Just a heads up that I'll once again be heading to Portland this summer for OSCon 2008. I'll be giving an updated version of my "Pro PostgreSQL" tutorial, which aims to help anyone who has been handed the task of maintaining one or more postgresql servers some firm ground to stand on and pointers on where to go from there.      ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:44:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>PostgreSQL: Looking under the hood with Solaris</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/111-PostgreSQL-Looking-under-the-hood-with-Solaris.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/111-PostgreSQL-Looking-under-the-hood-with-Solaris.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[  For those interested, here is my slide stack from PostgreSQL Conference East '08. I think the title of the talk was "PostgreSQL: Looking under the hood with Solaris." The presentation was 90 minutes long and had lots of shell-based show-and-tell. Obv...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[  For those interested, here is my slide stack from PostgreSQL Conference East '08. I think the title of the talk was "PostgreSQL: Looking under the hood with Solaris." The presentation was 90 minutes long and had lots of shell-based show-and-tell. Obviously that stuff isn't available in the slides. I think it went over quite well. The audience was small, but hopefully people took away the a lasting impression of what DTrace has to offer and at least one person had the response: "By the power of...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:21:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>PostgreSQL Community</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/110-PostgreSQL-Community.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/110-PostgreSQL-Community.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ I just attended the Keynote by Joshua Drake from Command Prompt. There are a lot of good movements on the operational organization of the PostgreSQL community. I think his vision of the community is more aggressive and structured than many are prepare...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ I just attended the Keynote by Joshua Drake from Command Prompt. There are a lot of good movements on the operational organization of the PostgreSQL community. I think his vision of the community is more aggressive and structured than many are prepared for, but in a community as large as the PostgreSQL community it is very good to have someone pushing the envelope and attempting to apply a vision. I don't want to go as far as Josh wants to do, but we'll wind up part of the way there and that "j...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:42:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>PostgreSQL Conference East &#039;08. Bring it... Yeah.</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/109-PostgreSQL-Conference-East-08.-Bring-it...-Yeah..html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/109-PostgreSQL-Conference-East-08.-Bring-it...-Yeah..html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ I was just surfing Planet PostgreSQL and read Selena Deckelmann's blog post that said the 2008 PostgreSQL Conference East is this Saturday and Sunday. My first response was, "WTF? I though it was like two weeks away and on a Thursday and Friday." My s...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ I was just surfing Planet PostgreSQL and read Selena Deckelmann's blog post that said the 2008 PostgreSQL Conference East is this Saturday and Sunday. My first response was, "WTF? I though it was like two weeks away and on a Thursday and Friday." My second response was, "I'm speaking at that, I should go." My third though? You should go too. So... I, like any professional speaker, finished my slides on time and turned them in several weeks ago. I have a polished presentation that's going to kic...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:50:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>The enemy of my enemy is my friend</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/335-The-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ So EnterpriseDB had a number of announcements today; a re-alignment of their product line, the open sourcing of their recently purchased GridSQL product, and the securing of a new round of funding which included among the investors none other than IBM...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ So EnterpriseDB had a number of announcements today; a re-alignment of their product line, the open sourcing of their recently purchased GridSQL product, and the securing of a new round of funding which included among the investors none other than IBM. Depending on where you stand, these may not seem that exciting, but I think all of them should have some impact in their respective areas, though of course the juicy one is that IBM investment. Continue reading "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Expressing our inner geek</title>
            <link>http://omniti.com/remembers/2008/expressing-our-inner-geek</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[OmniTI is filled with a lot of crazy personalities -- it's one of the reasons it is such a fun place to work.  Three of our employees have license plates that help convey how they appreciate technology.  Seeing this license plate line-up made me think ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OmniTI is filled with a lot of <a href="/is"><span>crazy personalities</span></a> -- it's one of the reasons it is such a <a href="/is/hiring"><span>fun place to work</span></a>.  Three of our employees have license plates that help convey how they appreciate technology.  Seeing this license plate line-up made me think of one of my favorite movies of all time: Real Genius.</p>

<p class="cite">...: <i>"Kent put his name on his license plate."</i><br/>
Mitch Taylor: <i>"My mother does that to my underwear."</i><br/>
Chris Knight: <i>"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?"</i>
</p>

<img width="448" height="257" src="http://images.omniti.net/omniti.com/i/content/planet/2008-03/licplates.png" />

<p>Jason, Todd and Keri are eccentric enough to <a href="http://images.omniti.net/omniti.com/i/content/planet/2008-03/licplates_pix_800.jpg"><span>express their inner-geek on their license plates</span></a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:22:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>5 Good Minutes</title>
            <link>http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/334-5-Good-Minutes.html</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In case you haven't heard, the schedule for PGCon 2008 has finally been announced, and I am happy to report that once again I will be hosting the Lightning Talks segment for the conference. As always we hope to have an eclectic mix of talks, so if you...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ In case you haven't heard, the schedule for PGCon 2008 has finally been announced, and I am happy to report that once again I will be hosting the Lightning Talks segment for the conference. As always we hope to have an eclectic mix of talks, so if you're interested in presenting, please drop me an email at xzilla@users.sourceforge.net. You only need to be able to come up with 5 minutes of material, and I'm pretty flexible on the topic as long as it sounds intriguing. (PostgreSQL related helps, ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:15:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Talking w/ Sun</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/108-Talking-w-Sun.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/108-Talking-w-Sun.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ New acquaintances walk away from their first conversation with me and either think that I am in love with a particular vendor or technology or they think I truly hate all technology. Both are true in some fashion. The fact that I have an OpenSolaris f...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ New acquaintances walk away from their first conversation with me and either think that I am in love with a particular vendor or technology or they think I truly hate all technology. Both are true in some fashion. The fact that I have an OpenSolaris feed on my blog might indicate that I'm a fan of Sun. The truth is I am and I am not. As is true of any large organization, it's really tough to be enamored with all of it. I am a huge fan of Solaris 10 and Sun's initiative to support strict ABI com...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:21:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>dtrace.conf(08)</title>
            <link>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/107-dtrace.conf08.html</link>
            <guid>http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/107-dtrace.conf08.html</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ As many people already know, I'm a big fan of DTrace. Well, today I attended dtrace.conf(08) -- the first (un)conference revolving around planet DTrace. It was awesome. Many people who know me well have heard me say, "my good days are when I'm the dum...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ As many people already know, I'm a big fan of DTrace. Well, today I attended dtrace.conf(08) -- the first (un)conference revolving around planet DTrace. It was awesome. Many people who know me well have heard me say, "my good days are when I'm the dumbest person in the room." That's not to be confused with "I like having bad days." Instead, I like to be at my best and still struggle to keep up. Here at dtrace.conf(08), the people here are damn smart -- a bunch of higher level thinking. I gave a...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:28:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Theo Schlossnagle Talks with Sun</title>
            <link>http://omniti.com/remembers/2008/theo-schlossnagle-talks-with-sun</link>
            <guid>http://omniti.com/remembers/2008/theo-schlossnagle-talks-with-sun</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Recently, Mark Thacker from Sun Microsystems interviewed our CEO Theo Schlossnagle to better understand how OmniTI uses Solaris to empower its customers.
For the last three years, we have seen Solaris 10 deployments growing steadily due to client deman...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, Mark Thacker from <a href="http://sun.com/"><span>Sun Microsystems</span></a> interviewed our CEO <a href="/is/theo-schlossnagle"><span>Theo Schlossnagle</span></a> to better understand how OmniTI uses Solaris to empower its customers.</p>
<p>For the last three years, we have seen Solaris 10 deployments growing steadily due to client demand.</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="intro">When our customers come to us with large, critical problems and we start talking technology, they are very impressed with the ZFS and DTrace technologies.  Again and again we've been able to take performance-critical customer applications and within fifteen minutes narrow the problem area down to a few lines <span class="end-quote">of code.</span></p>
</blockquote>
<p class="cite">~ <cite><a href="/is/theo-schlossnagle"><span>Theo Schlossnagle</span></a></cite></p>

<p>The interview is quite technical in nature, but shows that we approach things with a critical mind at OmniTI and are always on the look-out to bring new technologies to the table for our customers.</p>
<p><a href="http://wcdata.sun.com/webcast/download/podcast/SolarisRevealed/OmniTI-3.6.08.mp3"><span>Listen to the podcast.</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>URLs Can Be Beautiful</title>
            <link>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/mar/urls-can-be-beautiful</link>
            <guid>http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/mar/urls-can-be-beautiful</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[ We launched a new web site for OmniTI on Monday, complete with a new identity designed by Jon Tan. As with most projects of this nature, this was all done in our spare time, but we're proud of the results and hope it represents who we are and what we ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ We launched a new web site for OmniTI on Monday, complete with a new identity designed by Jon Tan. As with most projects of this nature, this was all done in our spare time, but we're proud of the results and hope it represents who we are and what we do with a bit of our personality showing through. If you spend some time on our site, its true beauty might begin to show; every detail has been designed with great care. A few colleagues and friends have recognized the unique information architect...]]></content:encoded>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is with a great sense of pride and exhaustion that we unveil our new identity and web site. This has been our obsession for the last few months, keeping us up nights and weekends, and we're really pleased with the results.

The new web site provides...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is with a great sense of pride and exhaustion that we unveil our new identity and web site. This has been our obsession for the last few months, keeping us up nights and weekends, and we're really pleased with the results.</p>
<img src="/i/content/planet/new-web-site.gif" alt="New OmniTI Web Site" />
<p>The new web site provides a simplified view of our talented staff and all of the work we do for our clients. Hopefully a bit of our personality shows through as well. We'll be posting more information once we've had a chance to catch our breath, and please do let us know if you notice any lingering debris we need to sweep up after our rush to the finish line.</p>
<p>Many thanks to all of our clients and colleagues who were gracious enough to say a little something about us. We think your words have much more meaning than our own, and we really appreciate all of the nice things you had to say.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <description><![CDATA[When it comes to coding style, there are are various ideas about how you should write the individual lines of code. The usual argument is about "how long should a line of code be"? There's more to it than that, though. Developers should also take into ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[When it comes to coding style, there are are various ideas about how you should write the individual lines of code. The usual argument is about "how long should a line of code be"? There's more to it than that, though. Developers should also take into account line volume ("number of lines") and line density ("instructions per line")....]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:13:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Ciprian Tutu promoted to Director of Solutions Delivery</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[OmniTI is very excited to announce the promotion of Ciprian Tutu into the role of Director of Solutions Delivery.  This is an important and strategic step forward as we position ourselves to handle explosive growth in its Scalability and Performance Co...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OmniTI is very excited to announce the promotion of <a href="/is/ciprian-tutu"><span>Ciprian Tutu</span></a> into the role of Director of Solutions Delivery.  This is an important and strategic step forward as we position ourselves to handle explosive growth in its <a href="/does/scalability-and-performance"><span>Scalability and Performance Consulting Group</span></a>.</p>

<p>With almost three years of service in the role of Project Manager and Senior Analyst, Dr. Ciprian Tutu has been promoted to the newly created position of Director of Solutions Delivery.  In this new position, he will apply his sharp analytical skills and his experience in managing software projects and service delivery initiatives (often referred to as cat-herding) to maintain the high quality of service OmniTI is known for.</p>

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<p class="initial">In today's Internet technology industry, finding good people is the single biggest challenge we face as an organization.  OmniTI's services are built upon the highly qualified individuals who make up its staff.  We are extremely pleased to have found a brilliant Ph.D. in computer science with a strong commitment to sound engineering principles and who has both the desire and skill to manage how our organization delivers our services to our clients.  He really gets the big picture and I see added value from <span class="end-quote">every angle.</span></p>
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<p class="cite">~ <cite><a href="/is/theo-schlossnagle"><span>Theo Schlossnagle</span></a></cite> -- OmniTI's Founder and CEO</p>

<p>We currently have four major service offerings around web application development, web application security, and Internet architecture design and operations.  Ciprian will work with both new and existing clients of OmniTI's <a href="/does/scalability-and-performance"><span>scalability and performance consulting</span></a> as well as the <a href="/does/architecture-and-infrastructure"><span>architecture and infrastructure support</span></a> offerings.</p>

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<p class="initial">I enjoy crossing the line, back and forth, between business requirements and technical solutions, bridging the gap between customer goals and demands and engineering pragmatic limitations, making sure that both sides are ultimately satisfied with the solution <span class="end-quote">in place</span></p>
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<p class="cite">~ <cite><a href="/is/ciprian-tutu"><span>Ciprian Tutu</span></a></cite>, Director of Solutions Delivery.</p>

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            <description><![CDATA[My sunburned feet have healed, so that means it's time to recap my trip to New Zealand for the second annual Kiwi Foo Camp.  My trip started in Auckland Friday morning, where I met David Slack (a fellow Foo), who was kind enough to give me a ride to Wa...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[My sunburned feet have healed, so that means it's time to recap my trip to New Zealand for the second annual Kiwi Foo Camp.  My trip started in Auckland Friday morning, where I met David Slack (a fellow Foo), who was kind enough to give me a ride to Warkworth. We got ourselves registered and started mingling with the others. Following tradition, we all introduced ourselves and then began creating the schedule. User experience was a popular topic this year, which suited me just fine. (The interse...]]></content:encoded>
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            <description><![CDATA[I remain unconvinced of the benefits of test-first and test-driven development (TDD) because I think the underlying principles of TDD are lacking, not because of the way TDD adherents talk about those principles. I believe I understand the test-first a...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[I remain unconvinced of the benefits of test-first and test-driven development (TDD) because I think the underlying principles of TDD are lacking, not because of the way TDD adherents talk about those principles. I believe I understand the test-first adherents very well, and I disagree with them....]]></content:encoded>
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            <description><![CDATA[I noticed an interesting comment on this blog while deleting comment spam a few days ago.  1. Jim Mirkalami Says: February 6th, 2008 at 6:25 pm  I have been a frequent visitor of this blog for some time now, so I thought it would be a good idea to leav...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[I noticed an interesting comment on this blog while deleting comment spam a few days ago.  1. Jim Mirkalami Says: February 6th, 2008 at 6:25 pm  I have been a frequent visitor of this blog for some time now, so I thought it would be a good idea to leave you with my thanks.  Regards, Jim Mirkalami It has that &#8220;almost certainly spam but hard to be dead sure&#8221; feel to it that a lot of spam comments have. Strangely although it is an optional field, he gives yahoo.com as his website. This ...]]></content:encoded>
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            <description><![CDATA[ In OmniTI world, as we work through evaluting and planning our first set of PostgreSQL 8.3 migrations, one nice resource we have used is the various blog postings over the past several months describing some of the new changes in 8.3. Since I figure t...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[ In OmniTI world, as we work through evaluting and planning our first set of PostgreSQL 8.3 migrations, one nice resource we have used is the various blog postings over the past several months describing some of the new changes in 8.3. Since I figure this information would be handy to others, here is a meta post, rounding up all of the blog posts discussing new 8.3 features and changes.   Continue reading "PostgreSQL Blog's 8.3 Feature Round-Up" ...]]></content:encoded>
            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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