This is the first place I am announcing this: The Pythian Group has made me a Team Lead. I am extremely honored and somewhat humbled by this, and I am determined to do a good job. I started officially on Monday, March 3rd, and my first week went pretty well.
On [...]
I was blog-tagged by Doug Burns - his post is here: I *hate* chain letters ….
I hate them too, I literally never pass them on no matter what vile fate that condemns me to (so far nothing has happened so maybe those are idle threats). But this one includes a chance to talk about myself [...]
Hello everyone,
We have several MySQL DBA openings, one in each of our offices in Ottawa, Boston, or Hyderabad, India. (Our Sydney office is doin’ fine.)
Working at Pythian is different than working in-house or as a consultant, because you?ll be making your contributions available to each of the customers assigned to your team, allowing you to [...]
A short note to let everyone know that I’ll be heading to Dubai later today to participate in Pythian’s exhibit in the Business Solutions Hall.
For those of you who haven’t heard of it, GITEX is like COMDEX for the Middle-East - it’s literally the third largest tradeshow in the world where COMDEX is #1 - [...]
Or, what exactly is behind Pythian’s growth and market success?
This is more of an essay than a blog post, but this subject comes up time and again, and since I tripped across this interesting blog post by Pedro Timóteo about why he has decided not to be a sysadmin any more, I thought now’s as [...]
A quick note for those of you enjoying the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007 in Santa Clara this week.
As part of Pythian’s Gold sponsorship of the conference, we’re trying something new. We understand that the tradeshow floor for booth sponsors is a bit out of the way, and in any case, there were no [...]
I will be out of the office all next week, so expect more blog posts from me! That’s not a joke — both Yannick Gratton and I will be at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, taking in all the material we can, processing it, and spewing out what I hope will be [...]