Like many others (and Vox/LJ itself) Hi5 was affected by the power outage in Colo 4 in 365 Main. We blogged about it over at the Hi5 Blog.
Hi5 Blog goes live today
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We're living on the edge over here at Hi5. Our new Movable Type 4 base blog is now available at http://www.hi5networks.com/blog/
The whole company is getting involved and you'll see plenty of interesting information to come.
Also, from a technical standpoint, MT4 has proved a winner. The memcached support in Data::ObjectDriver means that we can run via plain CGI, saving a bunch of time and effort to get this up and going.
We should have 3-4 posts per week. Sadly I didn't get a chance to finish implementing userpics for MT4, but that should come shortly.
PostgreSQL & Hi5 - Users Group Meeting
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We had a great turnout at the latest PostgreSQL users group meetup -- around 35 people showed. (Oh and not the group of stylish "Hi5 folk" you see to the right :)
Ram and I went over the PostgreSQL based DB architecture we use at Hi5 after the obligatory pizza feed. Quite an interesting crowd, some newbies, and some old hands.
My best line of the night was in response to a question asking us when we were going to use a specific feature -- my answer was that there were more people in the room than there were employees at Hi5. :)
The complete presentation is online for the curious.