Well, not the real truth is here though. I was quite busy with some stuff. Adium has broken support for Twitter now, I don't know why, but yesterday's fresh snapshot and build couldn't authenticate me still. So probably this explains my only passive reading list there, but no active tweets, other that occasional mobile shouts.
My blog was keeping silence mostly because this is the way it is. It looks like my blogging activity is mainly sinusoid, or something similar to a sine wave with very relatively slow ups, sharp peaks and quick drops. Maybe it's because I don't blog much about my day job anymore, I'm doing a lot of tech stuff that is pretty custom tailored and I don't feel like sharing it (probably because of too tiny or lack of auditory for this posts at all), and my product management ventures didn't reach those stages when I'd start seeing a lot of value there to share with others.
But I'll put my wheels back on.
Whatever, but life is going on. I had a chance to attend Percona's new one-day training in San Francisco, which was about Developing High Performance, Scalable Applications. That was a pioneering one, but very good. It was a training course aimed at developers building applications with MySQL, and while I'm not 100% hands-on developer anymore these day, I do build applications with MySQL. The training covered the topics on how to optimize queries, common design mistakes in MySQL, case-studies on how to solve various theorhetical application problem and briefly on architecture decisions that should be made in applications. I'm pretty happy with what I spent a day for.
I also read the Deploying Rails Applications book and almost done with Designing Social Interfaces. I liked them both, and I can probably suggest both of them, so let me put some stress on what I didn't like instead:
Deploying Rails Applications:
- It's a very great overview of the things around, but feels like too much of them. Getting a better idea of what to apply and when with a good structure would probably do a better job here.
- It's a little bit light and hard at the same time, probably the wrong mix of content.
- If you do have an administration skills, you probably find the book more like, "okay, okay, got it, okay, cool - I'm done with it, what's next?".
- I hate to repeat myself, but once again, it felt to me that too much stuff that probably doesn't need to be mixed together.
- I still recommend it.
Designing Social Interfaces:
- While I'm supposed to say bad things, I still want to say I really liked the book. It's probably not the rocket science, but it's very good.
- I felt like the author(s) got bored in the middle of the book, so did I, but it looks like he's recovering closer to the end of it (and so do I). :)
- Too much of Yahoo, and particularly Flickr. I love Flickr, but too much of cliches from it.
- The books if pretty decent and I highly recommend it. I still have few chapters to finish, but they'd probably not make it worse.
So basically that's it and see you around...
