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Happy 8th Birthday SmugMug! - 02/28/2010 05:12 AM

We have at least four birthdays here at SmugMug. I started working on the first lines of code for the project, which was decidedly not a photo-sharing site at the time, in October of 2001. Then in August of 2002, we decided to shift gears and build a photo-sharing site “as a side business.” Finally, [...]

Moving blog, using redirects - 02/26/2010 06:29 AM

(This post was written at my old location. You’re now reading it at the new location. ) I’m in the process of moving my blog to hosted WordPress at WordPress.com. Much as I loved the flexibility of hosting my own blog (and the rest of the company), the upkeep required just isn’t worth [...]

Windows 7 party with seven 7×7 In-N-Out burgers - 10/23/2009 06:38 AM

SmugMug’s Craig Meakin downs a 7×7 for Windows 7 by Chris MacAskill First, let me preface this by saying this is a great way to kill yourself, and that I rarely eat meat or cheese, let alone 7 patties and 7 slices. Please go read this book and this one if you’d like to know how [...]

SmugMug and Animoto, sitting in a tree… - 10/23/2009 05:44 AM

One of my all-time favorite services, Animoto, has teamed up with SmugMug to make truly epic professional quality videos from both your stills and your video clips. I’ve wanted this partnership since 2007, but Animoto’s had their hands full dealing with explosive growth, so it took us a little longer to sit in that tree [...]

Unbelievable 1080p video from Canon's new 1D Mark IV! - 10/20/2009 06:14 AM

Wow, Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Vincent Laforet has done it again! This time with Canon’s brand-new 1D Mark IV and a film shot at ISO6400. And SmugMug’s got it in all it’s full 1080p hi-def glory, of course. UPDATE: Canon, whom I love, has requested that Vincent take the video down. As a courtesy to [...]

Work on Drizzle full-time at Rackspace Mosso! - 04/28/2009 02:51 AM

This is really cool. Rackspace is hiring people to work on Drizzle full-time for their cloud product, Mosso. Adrian Otto writes the Drizzle mailing list: I was speaking with Eric Day at the developer conference, and I mentioned that Rackspace is wiling to employ full time developers for the specific purpose of furthering the [...]

Nasty Safari bug not fixed since December :( - 03/26/2009 05:24 PM

A rotten little apple by Ashley Harding Apple has had a nasty Safari bug since December which breaks SmugMug, Facebook, Gmail, and lots of US banks. 3 months later, it’s still not fixed. Your only option is to use Firefox if you’re affected. Apple’s known about the problem since December, and has lots of internal bugs on [...]

Yahoo adds SmugMug support! - 01/16/2009 08:30 PM

Yahoo! in cloud OR Hadoop? (Яху в облаках) by Alexander & Natalie tl;dr: Yahoo adds SmugMug support to Profiles. Windows Live coming. Lots of other services, too. Wow, what a pleasant surprise! Woke up this morning to this story on TechCrunch about 20 new services they’d added to Yahoo Profiles (here’s mine). Lo [...]

Great things afoot in the MySQL community - 12/24/2008 12:09 AM

tl;dr: The MySQL community rocks. Percona, XtraDB, Drizzle, SSD storage, InnoDB IO scalability challenges. For anyone who lives and dies by MySQL and InnoDB, things are finally starting to heat up and get interesting. I’ve been banging the “MySQL/InnoDB scales poorly” drums for years now, and despite having paid Enterprise licenses, I haven’t been [...]

On Why Auto-Scaling in the Cloud Rocks - 12/09/2008 08:32 PM

In high school, I had a great programmable calculator. I’d program it to solve complicated math and science problems “automatically” for me. Most of my teachers got upset if they found out, but I’ll always remember one especially enlightened teacher who didn’t. He said something to the effect of “Hey, if you [...]