Book Review: Burning Tower - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Title: BURNING TOWER Publisher: Orbit Author: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Edition released: 2007 ISBN: 978-1-84149-218-6 613 pages Reviewed by: Adam Donnison Magic is starting to wane, it has been long gone in Tep's Town since Yangin-Atep went myth,… more »

memcached as a replication delay buffer for MySQL

I was playing around with memcached the other day and realised that it perfectly fits into those situations where you have a write-only master database server and one or more replicated slaves. Picture the classic use of master/slave replication where… more »

Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

Title: DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Publisher: Gollancz Author: Philip K. Dick Edition released: 2007 ISBN: 978-0-575-07993-9 214 pages Reviewed by: Adam Donnison This is a seminal work. DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? went on to become the… more »