Jeff Beard

Last week I was trying to move a 21GB MySQL backup file from one host to another. I tried rsync first but it stopped after only 17GB was transferred. Then I compressed it with gzip, rsync’d the file to the host then attempted to decompress it but it failed again around 17GB. This seemed a [...]

I heard about Google App Engine (GAE) almost immediately upon it’s release but due to the fact that access to it was invitation only and a high workload at the time, I didn’t bother trying it out. Both of those things changed recently so I setup my development environment and took it for a brief [...]