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This week started out with me posting about International Women’s Day, and has me personally attending Confoo (Montreal) which is an excellent conference I hope to return to next year. I learned a lot from confoo, especially the blending nosql and sql session I attended.

Persistence Smoothie: Blending NoSQL and SQL – see user feedback and comments at http://joind.in/talk/view/1332.
Michael Bleigh from Intridea, high-end Ruby and Ruby on Rails consultants, build apps from start to finish, making it scalable. He’s written a lot of stuff, available at http://github.com/intridea. @mbleigh on twitter
NoSQL is a new way to think about persistence. Most NoSQL systems are not ACID compliant (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability).

Most of this stuff is not PHP specific, and Python or Ruby or Java or .NET developers can use the tools in this talk.
The session on joind.in, with user comments/feedback, is at http://joind.in/talk/view/1320.
Slides are at http://talks.php.net/show/confoo10
“My name is Rasmus, I’ve been around for a long time. I’ve been doing this web stuff since 1992/1993.”
“Generally performance is not a PHP problem.” Webservers not config’d, no expire headers on images, no favicon.

subtitle: Monetizing Social Media
Why is social media and social networking essential to you and your business? (because it will drive sales, but there’s very few analytics for ROI on social networking and social media)
Relying on advertising is no longer working for print newspapers and television. So why do we think it will work on internet media?

Blogging — you must post 2-4 quality blog posts every week to maintain readership. This takes a lot of work! Content is king.
No matter how cool the technology/product/service is, people still buy more often and more easily from people they know and trust.

subtitle: Monetizing Social Media
Why is social media and social networking essential to you and your business? (because it will drive sales, but there’s very few analytics for ROI on social networking and social media)
Relying on advertising is no longer working for print newspapers and television. So why do we think it will work on internet media?

Blogging — you must post 2-4 quality blog posts every week to maintain readership. This takes a lot of work! Content is king.
No matter how cool the technology/product/service is, people still buy more often and more easily from people they know and trust.

What is confoo? It is the sequel to the PHP Quebéc Conference (2003 – 2009). This year PHP Quebec decided to team up with Montreal-Python, W3Quebéc and OWASP Montréal to produce confoo.
And now, on to Mark Pilgrim of Google speaking on HTML5.

Timeline
1991 – HTML 1
1994 – HTML 2
1995 – Netscape discovers web, ruins it
1996 – CSS1 + JavaScript
1996 – Microsoft discovers web, ruins it
1997 – HTML4 + EMCAScript1
1998 – CSS2 + EMCAScript2 + DOM1
2000 – XHTML1 + EMCAScript3 + DOM2
2001 – XHTML 1.1
[long break!]
2009 – HTML 5 + ECMA5 + CSS 2.1

If you do not know what International Women’s Day is: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
Start planning your blog posts for Ada Lovelace day now (March 24th, http://findingada.com/ Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.)
To that end, I would like to point out all the women currently in science and tech fields that I admire and think are doing great things. I think it would be great if everyone, male or female, made a list like this:

The women that have taught me science/tech along the way:

If you do not know what International Women’s Day is: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
Start planning your blog posts for Ada Lovelace day now (March 24th, http://findingada.com/ Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.)
To that end, I would like to point out all the women currently in science and tech fields that I admire and think are doing great things. I think it would be great if everyone, male or female, made a list like this:

The women that have taught me science/tech along the way:

If you do not know what International Women’s Day is: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
Start planning your blog posts for Ada Lovelace day now (March 24th, http://findingada.com/ Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.)
To that end, I would like to point out all the women currently in science and tech fields that I admire and think are doing great things. I think it would be great if everyone, male or female, made a list like this:

The women that have taught me science/tech along the way:

Baron makes an excellent point in Why you should ignore MySQL’s key cache hit ratio — ratio is not the same as rate. Furthermore, rate is [often] the important thing to look at.
This is something that, at Pythian, we internalized a long time ago when thinking about MySQL tuning. In fact, mysqltuner 2.0 takes this into account, and the default configuration includes looking at both ratios and rates.
If I told you that your database had a ratio of temporary tables written to disk of 20%, you might think “aha, my database is slow because of a lot of file I/O caused by writing temporary tables to disk!”. However, that 20% ratio may actually mean a rate of 2 per hour — which is most likely not causing excessive I/O.