I was invited to be in a focus group for the local talk radio station recently with a focus on how they use email to communicate with listeners. As I’ve been a long time listener of this station and especially like some of the things they do online I thought it would be good to [...]
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Broken By Design – DirectTV and Overproduced Email
February 11, 2012
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Site Facelift
January 30, 2012
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I’ve been working on giving the site a facelift lately.. trying to make it a little more ‘light’… how am I doing? I’ll also be rotating in various photos I’ve taken in the page header. I’ll try to stick to photos I’ve actually taken myself… maybe as an incentive to do more traveling.
What I do – Dynamic Daily Table Partitions With Postgres
January 19, 2012
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As part of a new and fairly large project I have a need to partition a few postgres tables and have a rolling daily window. That is.. I want to organize data by a timestamp storing each day in its own partition and maintain 90 days of historical data. Doing this is possible in Postgresql [...]
What I do – Interviewing for Linux Engineers
December 11, 2011
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Now and then I’m called on to help interview candidates for linux admin/engineer slots and as I’ve been doing some of that lately I thought I’d share the way I go about doing a technical interview. This approach seems to work equally well over the phone or in person. I’m big on understanding the fundamentals [...]
