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HandlerSocket’s Secret Authentication Mechanism

March 31st, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in HandlerSocket, Random Tech, Security

Matt Ward made a comment on another blog post of mine informing me that HandlerSocket does, in fact, support authentication (committed 20 November 2010 in 43545662ddc23faa90ab). He mentions that it’s only plaintext (you’ve got to start somewhere, I suppose) and that it is undocumented, which explains why nobody knew about it. The purpose of this post is to document the functionality until it’s officially done.

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HandlerSocket Edge Cases

March 28th, 2011 | 1 Comment | Posted in HandlerSocket, MySQL, Random Tech, Uncategorized

A couple of weeks ago at the San Francisco MySQL Meetup, I gave a talk on HandlerSocket and got a couple of questions that, while I thought I knew the answer, I had never actually verified by testing. So, for the attendees who asked, here are the questions and answers:
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Ignoring the Scientific Approach to Triathlon Training

March 26th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Triathlon, Uncategorized

Today I finished my dry-run (all in my air-conditioned gym) training session for next week’s Clayton Triathlon. I came in 1 hr 7 min slower than I wanted, but (clearly) I didn’t set a realistic goal. Now that I have a baseline for how I perform in an Olympic Distance Triathlon, I can begin formulating a plan for how to improve my overall time.
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Speaking about HandlerSocket at the next SF MySQL Meetup

March 14th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Anouncement, HandlerSocket, MySQL, NoSQL

[shameless plug]

I’ll be at the next SF MySQL Meetup giving a talk on HandlerSocket called “NoSQL in MySQL: HandlerSocket plugin demystified”. We’ll ask, and answer, the following questions:

  • What is HandlerSocket?
  • Where does HandlerSocket fit in my application stack?
  • Why would I want to use HandlerSocket?
  • How do I use Handlersocket?

We’ll walk through relevant configuration & tuning options, and at the end of the presentation attendees will be able to identify candidate use cases within their application to use HandlerSocket.

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How to Taste Cheese

March 10th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Cheese, Food

Last night I attended The Cheese School of San Francisco‘s Basic Cheese Primer course (part of their “Cheese 101″ curriculum). We got to taste a dozen different cheeses, one from each taste family, but the most important lesson I took from the class is how to properly taste cheese.

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