Stockholm, Seoul, Tokyo

November 2009

  • Showa Kinen Park: Autumn pictures

    Posted Fri, 2009/11/20 - 10:16am by alex

    These are some autumn pictures taken at Showa Kinen Park with my GF1 20mm/1.7. I should have had a zoom with me but I did manage to get a few good shots anyway. A few photos have been tagged for family and friends so you need to logon (flickr) to see those.

  • Otorisama festival + Panasonic GF1C (20mm/1.7)

    Posted Sat, 2009/11/14 - 1:31pm by alex

    I'm recently a very pleased owner of a Panasonic GF1 micro 4/3 camera with a 20mm/1.7 lens. It's been a joy shooting with it and I've been taking it with me wherever I go now because of it's small size and DSLR capabilities. I wanted to get an Olympus Pen E-P1 at first primarily because of its looks, however because of the way Olympus handles AF (slower and hunts) I ended up with a GF1 and have no regrets. 

    Below are some pictures I took at the Otorisama festival in Tokyo this week which is held at Temple of Tori (Juzaisan Chokoku-ji) in Asakusa. Here you buy lucky charm rakes from hundreds of stalls for good fortune and business. At the next year's Otorisama you'll throw away the old rake and buy a new larger one so that it brings you even better fortune than previous year. 

  • Webinar: MySQL Cluster Performance Tuning Best Practices (US/EMEA friendly time)

    Posted Tue, 2009/11/03 - 1:20am by alex

    On Tuesday, November 3rd there will be a webinar on MySQL Cluster Performance Tuning.
    Presenting will be Johan A. our resident MySQL Cluster expert, so this will be an excellent time to get some practical tips on tuning MySQL Cluster. I'll be also assisting the panel answering any questions you might have.
     
    Register here.

    Are you experiencing current performance bottlenecks in your high availability applications ? Are you designing a new mission-critical application and want to know how best to structure your schema and index strategy for optimal performance? Interested in how to transform your SQL into faster, more efficient queries?
    Then this free web presentation is for you! You will get expert insight and learn best practices to help you identify those areas of database and application design that will give you the greatest benefits for performance when using MySQL Cluster.
    We will discuss guidelines and best practices covering the following areas:
     

    • General Design Concepts and Guidelines
    • Schema Optimization
          - BLOB/Text vs VARBINARY/VARCHAR
          - Partition by Key
    • Index Selection and Tuning
    • Basic Query Tuning
    • MySQL Cluster Parameter Tuning Guidelines
    • Tools to accelerate application development and testing