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Slides From my MySQL Tuning talk at CPOSC

Sunday, October 18th, 2009 Posted in Computers | 1 Comment »

Here are the slides from my October 17 CPOSC talk on MySQL performance tuning.(Open Document format)

More Information About Kids Online

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Computers | No Comments »

On January 25th I had a good conversation about issues confronted by young people online as part of St. Paul's Hot Topics discussion series.  One thing that became very clear is that there is too much information to cover in ...

Software no Longer Patentable in US

Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Computers | No Comments »

A federal appeals court has overruled a decision that allowed business processes and software to be patented.  This terrific news and should go a long way in helping to protect high tech innovation in the United States.