Don MacAskill

Mountain View, CA

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blogs.smugmug.com/don/

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About: CEO & Chief Geek @ SmugMug
Werewolf hound
Father of twins plus one more
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Delta Airlines has terrible customer service

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photo by: Local Sports Online My poor little sister just got totally destroyed by awful Delta employees. She was trying to fly cross-country for ...

MySQL and the Linux swap problem

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Ever since Peter over at Percona wrote about MySQL and swap, I’ve been meaning to write this post. But after I saw Dathan Pattishall’s...

We’re Hiring: CSS Zen Master

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photo by: Jean-Yves Have you reached stylesheet Nirvana? Are you the designer people go to for a fresh, clean, gorgeous look? Have I got the dream...

I demand video to be awesome.

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  Sam “Shizam” Nichols, creator of the video player, donning his SmugMug Hero persona. See it in HD. The state of video codecs on...

Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo today

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I’m on a panel called ‘Small Business Hacks’ at the Web2Open part of the Web 2.0 Expo today at 1:30pm.  Swing by if you’re ...

New Amazon Features: Status Dashboard & Paid Service

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I realize I’m already way behind blogging about other new Amazon Web Services features like the recent EC2 release with static IPs, availabil...

Death of MySQL read replication highly exaggerated

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I know I’m a little late to the discussion, but Brian Aker posted a thought-provoking piece on the imminent death of MySQL replication to sca...

The Sky is Falling! MySQL charging for features!

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There’s quite a bit of buzz on the blogosphere from people I respect a great deal, like Jeremy Cole at Proven Scaling and Vadim at Percona, a...

Thoughts on Google App Engine

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First:  Very cool. Next:  I think it’s interesting that Google has basically taken a sniper scope out and aimed it at a specific cloud comput...

Seattle/Redmond dinner update

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Sitting in the Virgin America part of the SFO International terminal.  Talk about an awesome terminal.  Can’t wait to fly Virgin, too - my fi...


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