Cotton Rohrscheib

I've been an entrepreneur my entire life and have been blessed to have been associated with hundreds of startups and projects throughout my career. A few years ago I started offloading many of my business interests to spend more time w/ my family and retool my focus toward the agricultural industry, ultimately I landed at Farmers Business Network, Inc. w/ a great team of people w/ shared mission / vision and the rest is history! I still operate my personal website & blog occasionally on topics of interest to me including; parenting, agriculture, technology, and whatever else comes my direction! My blog, cotton.buzz, is the product of over 20yrs worth of content, photos, podcasts, videos, etc., and all of the content I produce is mine personally, and only represent my views and/or opinions on topics and do not represent any of the businesses or associations I'm affiliated with.

Sun Microsystem Buys MySQL For $1 Billion

January 20, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib 1 Comment

I have to admit, I didn’t see this one coming, it looks like Sun Microsystems has purchased MySQL AB, the company behind the development of the popular MySQL database software, for 1 billion dollars, wow… As many of you know, while I respect Oracle, my choice for 99% of all projects that I develop is […]

Launched: Greers Ferry Real Estate Center

January 20, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib 1 Comment

Last week I launched a project for a client (Greers Ferry Real Estate Center) that I am pretty excited about. I am excited because the project is built on the Powersite Real Estate CMS that I wrote. The website’s content is managed entirely by the staff and team at Greers Ferry Real Estate Center. I […]

Book Review: Run Your Own Webserver

January 20, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

My partner Stephen ordered us all a copy of this book shortly after we started Pleth. It took me a while to finally get into it because my first thought was that it was going to be a light read but it really wasn’t, parts of it were filled with some really good info. There […]

Acxiom’s New CEO and President

January 19, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

Since I moved to Conway and started to going to church down here I have met a lot of talented programmers that work at Acxiom, they are one of the largest employers here in town, if not the largest. For a few years now I have noticed that their morale has been on a sharp […]

Ways You Can Use Twitter

January 19, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

A while back I posted a blog entry about my first impressions of Twitter, click here to read that blog entry, I had been playing with the app for a little while and hadn’t really gotten a clear idea as to how it could be useful to any of my clients so I kind of […]

PHP 4.4.8 Released

January 19, 2008 by Cotton Rohrscheib Leave a Comment

This month the PHP Development Team released it’s newest update to the 4.4 development branch, it’s 4.4.8. There are a couple of bug fixes in this upgrade that might be of interest to developers who rely on PHP to develop applications. Here’s a short excerpt from the PHP website, you can click on the changelog […]