Patrick Galbraith

Patrick Galbraith
Principal Software Engineer, Blue Gecko

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Patrick Galbraith is a senior systems and database administrator at Blue Gecko. In his “spare time”, he maintains DBD::mysql, DBD::drizzle, FederatedX storage engine and the Memcached Functions for MySQL. He has just authored “Developing Web Applications using Perl, Memcached, MySQL, and Apache”. Patrick lives up in the sticks of New Hampshire with his wife Ruth, and for a hobby is part owner of a local wireless Internet provider, Radius North.

Sessions

5:15pm Wednesday, 04/13/2011
Perl programming with MySQL and Drizzle
Drizzle, LAMP, Memcached
 Location: Ballroom B
Tags: perl, drizzle, memcached
Patrick Galbraith (Blue Gecko)
Average rating: **...
(2.00, 3 ratings)
Perl has been around for a while now. Even with buzz around other interpreted languages, Perl is still prevalently used in many applications- anything from simple database utilities, database administrative tools or web applications, it is useful to know how to program with Perl along with a relational database. This session is refresher course for lovers and non-lovers of Perl alike. Read more.
11:55am Thursday, 04/14/2011
Narada: using Gearman, Sphinx, Memcached, Drizzle and PHP to build a search application
Drizzle, Memcached, PHP and MySQL, Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom G
Tags: php, drizzle, memcached, search, gearman, sphinx
Patrick Galbraith (Blue Gecko)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
The Narada Search Application is a project that was an idea that was inspired while writing a book on how to take advantage of Sphinx, Gearman and MySQL that introduces a whole new way of thinking about web applications. Instead of a single monolithic web application, functionality is broken out into several Gearman workers to make for a much more scalable and dynamic application. Read more.
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Clustrix
  • Continuent
  • Facebook
  • HTI Consultoria e Tecnologia
  • Monty Program
  • Percona
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SkySQL
  • Xeround

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