Archive for August, 2011

The Benefits of Style Guides

Giving a new website a unified and coherent visual style is crucial to creating both an engaging and informative web experience. In this post, GT software developer Alister West gives some insight into the role style guides play in ensuring that a site’s visual elements are uniform and attractive.

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A Day in the Life of a QA Analyst

We asked one of our co-op students, Mike Wu, to give us both a glimpse into life at Gossamer Threads as a relative newcomer, as well as what his work as a Quality Assurance Analyst entails. What follows is a story of bugs, barbecue and Big Two…

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Nathan’s MySQL Crash Course: Part Three

Nathan's MySQL Crash Course: Part Three

After our first two posts on MySQL storage engines and general MySQL tips, our senior sysadmin Nathan March closes the week out with some discussion of Percona Server.

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Nathan’s MySQL Crash Course: Part Two

Nathan's MySQL Crash Course: Part Two

Continuing on from yesterday’s post on MySQL storage engines, GT’s lead sysadmin Nathan March gives some MySQL tips, to be followed by some Percona-specific insights tomorrow.

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