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…Six Figures Working (From Home) With The Stars Of Your Community, Even If You Just Got So Fired That The Cops Hauled You Out Of The Building In Handcuffs . Part of my magic formula includes understanding Google PageRank, and the best way to understand complex, abstract mathematics is to reduce them to a very short Ruby script. As an aside, you'd be surprised how many complex, abstract theoretical thingamajigs can condense down to just a few lines of easily understandable …
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…and write them, they may even hack on MySQL. So this fraction of MySQL Community looks a lot larger than it is. Think about this - you might think most relevant players in MySQL community participated in MySQL Users Conference over the years. This is about 2000 people a year for last 8 years. Remove people which attended multiple years and you're probably looking at crowd of 8000 or so, which is a lot but it is just a drop in the total amount of MySQL users which is in hundreds …
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…Six Figures Working From Home With The Stars Of Your Community, Even If You Just Got So Fired That The Cops Hauled You Out Of The Building In Handcuffs . You also need to include the hashtag # appsinmypants .
The rules are open-ended, and that's a deliberate choice. You can submit just about anything as long as it complies with these rules.
So to be clear, to play your tweet must:
Use the hashtag # appsinmypants .
Include a link to this blog post.
Use …
…community as it grew from a small town into an worldwide superpower. As Director of Community, she's learned some amazing lessons - the kind of lessons you can only learn running a gigantic creative community. Meanwhile, I started two companies and worked with dozens more. We both have traveled the world, speaking about design and community online.
Looking back at the last 15 years of our work online, the theme is easy to spot. We love the web and the opportunities it creates to grow …
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I did a well-received talk on ActiveRecord at last year's Community Day . Community Day ‘09 was the first of its kind in Copenhagen, and it was quite successful in bringing developers with different technical backgrounds together as well as attracting students - probably because of the free beer :)
Community Day in Copenhagen is back again this year, so reserve May 27 if you are near Copenhagen and like free tech-talks, networking and beer. This year …
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Bay Area Community Exchange based on OsCurrency
I am particularly excited that a new site will be launched soon using OpenWallet that has the potential to be the PayPal of the middle east.
Talking about PayPal. They expressed interest at BarCampBank London in experimenting with an OpenTransact gateway. Will this replace their current API ? Hardly, but it would make it easier for developers to get started.
Several …
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…Eastern Michigan University , and Washtenaw Community College , are valued assets to the Ann Arbor community. As a recent grad from the U of M, I consulted my network for a comprehensive view of the issue at hand.
An informal poll of 15 of my peers (college seniors or recent grads from assorted majors) revealed that only one was happy with their exposure to Web 2.0 tools. All reported some experience with web-based database systems in which professors and instructors …
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February and March as busy months for Community events. There's MySQL University, Fosdem, the Seattle MySQL Meetup & Confoo.ca. Here are the details:
February 4th - I'll be presenting a talk via MySQL University on Optimizing Queries with Explain . This talk will be about learning to read the output from MySQL's EXPLAIN command, and optimizing some example queries from the IMDB dataset. At 5.7G in InnoDB tables imported before …
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