Author Archives: Brian Pontarelli

Dependency Management Standardization

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Brian Pontarelli

David Lloyd and I are working on getting some standards together for dependency management. We are hoping that this will help unify projects and provide the ability for all the different projects to use the same repositories. Please join us … Continue reading →

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IE filter gradient and positioning bug

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Brian Pontarelli

Today I found a bug in the IE rendering engine that revolves around IE positioning and using filter’s to handle gradients. My issue was that I had a navigation component that contained a drop-down menu. These drop down menus weren’t … Continue reading →

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Database date/time support sucks

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Brian Pontarelli

Okay, after many hours of battling with MySQL and PostgreSQL, I’ve come to the conclusion that databases support for dates and times suck. PostgreSQL appears to do a much better job than MySQL, but overall they both leave a lot … Continue reading →

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Database handling for TimeZones

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Brian Pontarelli

Today I’ve been working with Postgresql and MySQL trying to figure out how they handle date-time values and timezones. This is actually quite tricky, so I wanted to write it down for later. First, both databases have two different types … Continue reading →

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Oracles OLTP numbers vs. Clean Speak

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Brian Pontarelli

Oracle is hosting a webinar today covering the awesome performance of their Exadata system. Sure Oracle’s OLTP tests probably do slightly more than Clean Speak does, but 1,870 transactions in 2 minutes hardly seems like something to rave about. The … Continue reading →

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