Waxy.org is the sandbox of Andy Baio, an
independent journalist and programmer living in
Portland, Oregon. I created If you're looking for full-time work and live in the Santa Monica (Southern California) area, I'm currently looking to hire two web geeks: a Perl/Mason/MySQL programmer and a front-end HTML/CSS coder. You'd be working for the most intelligent company in the financial industry, with a really great team.
If you're interested, e-mail or IM me and I'll send you details. Feel free to spread the word.
5:57 PM
Hey, I'm availab-- No, no. Never mind.
6:52 PM
Some context: we just hired Greg yesterday.
7:04 PM
Damn, and I live in Ft. Lauderdale... Oh well...
10:45 AM
HTML/CSS coder is my specialty, and I'd love to work with your company. But you had your chance. Leonard grabbed me first (on his second try, heh).
11:14 AM
How intelligent can you be if you use MySQL?
11:22 AM
Let's see... SQL Server 2000 costs between $5,000 to $20,000 per processor, and requires a Microsoft Windows server. MySQL is gloriously free and runs on almost anything. Which is more intelligent? :)
10:32 PM
Dude, Berkeley DB 4-eva. And...ummm...postgreSQL.
But seriously, I don't know enough about database systems to compare all the free pickings but MySQL works really good for http://www.democracynow.org (my day job).
Do people run large databases on Windows systems?
9:13 AM
No place I've worked has run their systems of a windows server. Regardless, I am quite sure that Oracle, DB2 or Sybase on some sort of Unix server will break the bank if SQL Server doesn't. So MySQL is probably the way to go.
8:07 AM
How intelligent can you be if you use MySQL?
*notes poster's url, moves on*
10:39 AM
In most cases, MySQL is more than enough.
If we lived in a perfect world Oracle would be free and an enterprise-class server from Sun wouldn't cost the same as the annual budget for a small country.
1:00 PM
MySQL does a good job of what it sets out to do, and is actually faster than Oracle. At my work we had to reluctantly give up MySQL since it didn't provide transaction support or replication. If your database needs are fairly straightforward, then MySQL will work great. If you are doing a bigtime app though, you should probably be using transactions and replication.
11:35 AM
Do you have to be based out of Santa Monica, or can it be remote work, say the UK? :)
11:59 AM
Sorry, on-site only!