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NewsForge: Developer Migrates from Hobbyist to Fantasy Baseball Titan

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 22, 2004

“There are all manner of white papers and architecture documents
on the features and benefits of migrating from MySQL 3 to MySQL 4.
However, sometimes the best example is to see it done on the front
lines of the Web business. I recently had a chance to chat with
Tyson Lowery, a developer and proprietor of the online fantasy
baseball site SimDynasty.com, and learn about his experience in
making the MySQL move, marketing the site, and his views on Java
and PHP. This was not a task for the slight of heart, considering
Lowery’s Internet property receives 75,000 to 100,000 daily page
views and includes a corral of 25,000 registered users…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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