March 2008 Archives

Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails

About a month ago I mentioned that I have an announcement. It took longer than anticipated, but here it is. Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails is now available as a Beta book.

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Posted by Mike Mangino on Mar 12, 2008

Creating a MySQL slave from a running master

We use MySQL replication for several reasons. First of all, we use it to make sure we can quickly recover from a failure of a primary database servers. As an added benefit, it makes backups easier. Of course, getting replication set up can be a pain, especially if you can't afford to take the main database server down. Here's how we do it.

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Posted by Mike Mangino on Mar 02, 2008