Olympia NetWorks
Peak Solutions for the World Wide Web
MySQL is an open source database used by countless applications, including WordPress.
Last year, Oracle bought Sun, which had bought MySQL. Which means Oracle owns their biggest competitor in the database market. You can read more details here.
There’s a petition online to keep MySQL developed under the GPL (meaning it continues to be available for free). Please go and sign the petition. Every bit helps.
I don’t know how many of you use Google Chrome, but I do, and I can highly recommend it. A year after the browser’s release, they’ve come out with a new stable version (the third, I believe). I’ve been very happy with Chrome since I first downloaded it almost a year ago, and this new version is no exception. It was already the fastest browser I’d ever worked with, and now it’s even faster.
Basically, I use Chrome for everything, and I use Firefox if I have to debug a script (their web developer add on is really wonderful). If there’s absolutely no way around it, I’ll use Internet Explorer (damn you, microsoft.com…). As anybody who’s ever designed websites will tell you, IE is EVIL.
And we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
But sometimes the terrorists restrict functionality to proprietary software that doesn’t understand basic web standards.
I am proud to announce the launch of this website, Olympia NetWorks. There are still some pages that need some content put in, but I have a home page, and I have a blog, and a contact page. I’d say that’s enough to launch the website.
So. A little about myself. My name is John P. Bloch, and I am the owner/adminstrator of the website. I have been doing web design for about three years now, and have been doing web programming in PHP and Javascript for almost a year and half a year, respectively.
More updates soon, as well as layout and design tweaks to come soon.