Robert, Over the years, you've been a big advocate of PostgreSQL. I'm just wondering if you'd care to comment on the reasons you've decided to port your shop to MySQL.
If you've already covered this topic in a previous post, I'd appreciate a repost. I think others would also appreciate your analysis of the pros/cons behind your decision. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: Robert Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Witango-Talk: Some Good Work and A Few Good Men (geeks) Just a quick note, we have been working for some time on some major upgrades to our eventpix.com service. One of the new features, was an updated guest image viewer designed in flash. I have had the design in my head for 2 years, but just couldn't get it on my plate, too much other stuff. So made a detailed spec, and sketches and looked to farm out the flash programming. I built a webservice framework, and planned on the flash UI being completely data driven by this framework. Lockdata was contracted for the flash programming, and an unnamed programmer, from this list was hired to take my webservice framework, and build all the webservices necessary for the flash UI. This programmer is unnamed, only cuz I don't know if he wants me to tell people he is working for us. The flash UI beat my expectations, and it is now live, serving millions of images a day. You can check it out at http://www.eventpix.com/guest/ , just click the view demo event. Be sure to try the slide show, and zoom loupe tool. It also provides sepia and black and white images on the fly, and many other cool features. It was a real team effort, and was a tough transition for me to give over large projects and just manage them, not DO them. The Unnamed programmer, who is welcome to name himself, did such a great job, he has been kept on to rebuild our entire lab module as an ajax, webservice driven service, and it works great, although you can't see it, only for member photographers. And unless he chooses to move on, will probably be loaded with work from us for years to come. All that to say, great work by lockdata and this programmer, and a segway into saying, we need more help. I am looking for 2 more programmers, to start over next month or so. Please send in your resume to me privately, with your core competencies, and experience. I am ESPECIALLY looking for witango programmers with great PHP experience. We are moving all of our apps, big ones first, to PHP/MYSQL. We have already made the mysql leap. Thanks in advance. -- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
