Monthly Archives: January 2007

MySQL prepares for IPO, reveals Oracle endorsement

Open source database vendor MySQL AB is preparing itself for an initial public offering, and could even be ready to go public before the end of the year, according to its CEO Marten Mickos. read more | digg story

Google Stops the Bombs!

Google is, hands down, the best search engine. How long will it take for msn and yahoo to catch up with disarming link bombs aka google bombs? The President’s bio on whitehouse.com is still the top result on both yahoo … Continue reading

Tour de Zappos

Last week Meghan took Chris Schulz, Blake Killian and I on a tour of the Zappos.com offices. Zappos is an amazing company with an incredible culture. Checkout Chris’ post “My Top 10 WOW’s about Zappos“, and Blake’s “Do you smile … Continue reading

Using Open Source Frameworks to Build an Agile Real Estate Web App

I have been working on web sites for real estate agents for a few years now. Over the years I have built these sites on a LAMP platform with my own simple code base. As I worked with more and … Continue reading

Google Web Search Now Integrates Blog Results

Type in a phrase into Google.com, add the word “blog” at the end of your query and not only will you get web results but more up-to-date results from Google Blog Search too. read more | digg story