jpamental (Jason Pamental)

Interests

cycling, drupal, graphic design, info. architecture, my 40 year old car, nerd news, rock climbing, sailing, user experience, web design, Web Standards

Web Link

(add)ventures

About Me

I work at (add)ventures as their Director of Interactive Services. It's a really fast-paced place to be, and some great projects going on. I get to see and be involved in a lot more variety in types and scales of client work. It also happens to be the most enjoyable place I've ever worked, with a load of amazing people to collaborate with every day.

Favorite podcast - boagworld.com (on just about all things related to web design)

On those rare occasions when life is not work related it's all about my family, our dog, and whatever I can get anyone to do outdoors.

Recent Content

Title: Web Producer - contract or possible hire (Marketplace)Submitted: May 22nd, 2008 - 11:15am

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Gigs

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(add)ventures

Recent Comments

Source: Keep Connecting the Circles (Blog) Submitted: March 13th, 2008 - 9:51pm link

I was fortunate enough to attend Ellen Levy's talk today over lunch at at the Business Innovation Factory and this was a major focus. It was a great cross-section of innovative thinkers from around the state and a perfect example of widely different circles coming together. I'm very excited about continuing to explore these kinds of overlap - the opportunities to meet really interesting people and get involved in new areas are endless.

Jason

Source: Your favorite database web-backend? (Forum) Submitted: March 13th, 2008 - 9:18pm link

I've used SQL Server quite a bit, and its' admin tools are really good. I think that actually the free version (SQL Server Express) is a pretty decent option, but MySQL has been great and version 5 finally has a good set of capabilities for stored procedures as well as better backup and replication options. PrimeBase used to be a standard for me because it was a good cross-platform option, but in recent years MySQL has gotten so much better on the Mac for development that I stopped using it (not to mention that MySQL is free and PrimeBase is not).

I do have to say that overall it's the admin tools that make SQL Server an attractive option more so than the actual DB engine itself. And for high volume reads and lower volume transactions, MySQL is more than adequate for just about all but the highest traffic loads (several million page views per month with multiple DB queries per page).

Jason