Pocket Revolutionary

Catching up on my reading today, and I found a great link on O’Reilly Radar to MySQL’s Twelve Days of Scale-Out. They’ve already featured two of my favorite scaled MySQL implementations: wikipedia.org and Zimbra. Personally, I use MySQL every time I get a choice early enough in the development process. I appreciate that it’s open source, even though I’ve only had to make use of that once (the developers were extremely helpful in helping us when the new version of MySQL broke some important key lengths). It’s nice that you can do almost everything with the free version. Mainly, though, I just like using the same platfom that scales for Wikipedia, Google, and Yahoo! offerings. It gives me the warm fuzzies in a way that only Oracle used to do for CTO’s in the 90′s.

I’m not sure this has anything to do with Web 2.0 ministry, but who cares? From what I understand, this was the high point of the WWDC Keynote, anyway.

We launched a new site at Generals International today at lightthehighway.org. As my quick disclaimer, I work full-time at Generals International, but my opinions do not necessarily represent those of the ministry or anyone else. Anyway, we launched lightthehighway.org today, and I can finally sleep! It’s a Mediawiki-based site that uses Google Maps and phpBB for wiki-updated maps and a plethora of forums. The short-term goal is to unite a lot of disparate groups of intercessors, evangelists, churches, and houses of prayers near the highway of I-35 based on a prophecy given in 2005 and leading up to 35 days of prayer in November. Eventually, though, we’re hoping to grow it into a community that can communicate in the forum, use Google Maps for spiritual mapping, and share prophecies and historical information in the wiki. Please check it out and let me know what you think!