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@cloudteam What query can customers reliably run to test to see if their MySQL database is currently read locked due to maintenance? #

@HCUnlimited Yeah, needs some love. Let him know. Anyway, just reaching out to peeps in the area. Do you have a site? #

On the grind… Let’s see if I can get to the letter J before 3. #

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@ cloudteam Provide a ready to go MySQL server image for CloudServers with: MySQL 5.1, minimal Apache+phpMyAdmin installed,replication #

@cloudteam Shared MySQL on CloudSites isn’t cutting it. At least when the app servers are down it’s all or nothing. Make private MySQL easy #

@AtlasNet_Nathan LOL, doing that. My comments were because of the down time associated with readlocking the DBs during maintenance. in reply to AtlasNet_Nathan #

@AtlasNet_Nathan The issue with the cloud providers isn’t performance. It’s uptime! Uptime is horrible. Better isolation is needed. in reply to AtlasNet_Nathan #

@AtlasNet_Nathan Who do you use for hosting? in reply to AtlasNet_Nathan #

@AtlasNet_Nathan Nevermind, on your site now. in reply to AtlasNet_Nathan #

@AtlasNet_Nathan I like @cloudteam, I just think they need to get a couple of application architects in there to really push the sysadmins in reply to AtlasNet_Nathan #

@cloudteam The MySQL clusters need better resource isolation and uptime, 24 hour prior notification for non emergency maintenance. #

@DerrickDouglass Right now I’m setting up the topic pages for the site which involves Wikipedia + Flickr so it’s tedious. #

@DerrickDouglass But it we are definitely getting this thing done in days at this point. in reply to DerrickDouglass #

Following people that are interesting on @bostontweet. Post launch need to get some fresh air and join the living for a little. #

@HCUnlimited You’ve got to ditch the Flash on you’re site. That’s terrible for SEO. All together, “NO FLASH SPLASH ON THE INDEX PAGE!” #

Wikipedia seems to be crawling today… #

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Progress is going well on deployment. Starting the long grind for fleshing out the group categories. #

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Looks like the shared memory access in PHP is mainly good because it allows for easy random access, but it’s still file based. Interesting.. #

Really cool demonstration of what this whole auto-tune thing is about. The annoying vocal sound plastered on the radio http://is.gd/1ih79 #

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Thanks to everyone for pushing me past the 400 follower mark. Going to eat brunch and then get to fun with multithreading in PHP land #

Went to a wedding yesterday and had a blast. There must be an unwritten rule that chicken must have hollandaise sauce on it at weddings #

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Crap, so the site installer works. Took two weeks too long. Now I find out that I have to rewrite my robots for the prod environment #

The robots did run half assed though. So it looks like we are a go in the very near future, aaahhhhhh…. Somebody shoot me now! #

If this fork test works in prod I’m going to bed. Crossing fingers. #

@byungjinchun Yo, how is everything going? Need to meet downtown. You can appreciate a 100% automated server side install. Ready for prod in reply to byungjinchun #

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Yikes! Template initialization is really important in my system! Lost a whole night of deployment time from one line change. #

So for all of you who follow me on Twitter. Thank you for the support. For the Facebook crowd, sorry for the flood. How are you all doing? #

A big announcement is coming in the next couple of days. I will keep you posted. Big shout out to @guykawasaki for being an awesome mentor! #

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I’ve been grinding for the past couple of days. Finally back on rackspace and pushing code to production. Very soon and not soon enough. #

So it looks like I have an intern for the summer More news on that later. Time to hit the hay. #

Why am I still up? I’ve been coughing and hacking all day and feel drained. #

@pbakaus Agreed. SEDA and events are the bomb. Wrote a SEDA based framework on top of Java Swing in 2000. Made life super easy. in reply to pbakaus #

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Looks like the Gillmor Gang on @techcrunch is dead. #

Just fired up a CloudServer on Mosso. Should be interesting. #

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@techcrunch How long did it take you guys to develop the first version of Elevator Pitches in man hours? #

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