From the monthly archives:

January 2009

Kurhaus in Scheveningen

by Michiel on January 31, 2009

I took this picture of the Kurhaus in Scheveningen on a winter afternoon. Great sight.

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Mind your company growth

by Michiel on January 18, 2009

I really like this paragraph from the following blogpost  http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2008/12/getting-real-is-all-about-being-lean-and-agile-and-keeping-things-simple.html  “From my own experience I know it’s really easy to overcomplicate things, as your company grows you start adding various control mechanisms, and before you know it your implementing controls mechanisms to control your control mechanisms. Getting Real reminds small businesses why they should stay [...]

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Migrating very large databases

by Michiel on January 14, 2009

Currently, tweetburner.com has one table which is really big. We’re busy optimizing our database to make it more scalable and run faster on big calculations. For this, we need to set up multiple replication servers.  Normally you would just dump all tables into a sql or text file to copy them over to another database [...]

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The Sequel Pro client is really good

by Michiel on January 12, 2009

I really love the Seqel Pro MySQL client for Mac OS X. It’s the “replacement” of Cocoa MySQL.  You dan download it here: http://sequelpro.com Posted via email from Shaping Clouds Notes

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Posterous for sharing notes, not blogs no tweets

by Michiel on January 11, 2009

I’m going to try out Posterous in the next few days for posting little stuff that comes on my mind. They are harder to explain in Tweets (for example, code samples are attachted) but they are not as structured as a blog article with an introduction, core and closure.  Let me know what you think! [...]

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