I haven’t updated my blog in a while, so as a temporary placeholder, I’ve decided to just post a random conversation where I attempt to rewrite Sarah songs into either programming languages or pseudo code. Dorky, at best.

(23:27:29) esofluffy: so if you were to be listening to Sarah McLachlan, which song would you choose?
(23:27:39) arcology88: umm
(23:27:43) arcology88: the silence
(23:27:44) arcology88: haha
(23:27:49) esofluffy: I think I’ll go for “Hold On”
(23:28:09) esofluffy: well, instead i went for “Building a Mystery”
(23:28:19) esofluffy: I want to rewrite the song to be different.
(23:28:31) arcology88: hehe
(23:28:32) arcology88: explain
(23:29:00) esofluffy: well, first of all I’d rename it… to “Parsing a SQL_TREE”
(23:29:28) esofluffy: “cuz you’re working… on Parsing a SQL_TREE”
(23:30:26) arcology88: ahhah
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What is Wiki

A wiki (IPA: [?wi?.ki?] or [?w?.ki?] [1]) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration.

This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. More in Wikipedia

MySQL Wiki
After the WebTech conference I discovered the MySQL wiki. It is still on development phase, becouse there is not a lot of materials in there, but is pleasure for me to contribute

I make a new Category called MySQL events worldwide. If you have information about such events, …

Today I uploaded a batch of pictures into my gallery and I also re-arranged a number of albums into a separate Conferences and Events collection. The latest additions in there (yes, some should have been uploaded some time ago already!):

• EuroOSCON 2005 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Open Source Database Conference 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany
• FOSDEM 2006 Conference in Brussels, Belgium
• MySQL Developer Meeting 2006 in Sorrento, Italy …

My First Web Server
Originally uploaded by jzawodn.

It was nearly 10 years ago (mid 1996) that I first put my own web server on the Internet. Back in college, I managed to convince one of the staff to give my personal computer a static IP address so that I could run a web server. At the time there were no other student computers on the campus network, let alone with static addresses.

It was a year of firsts for me and for the University.

At the time my nearly state of the art computer was a 486 DX2/66 with 16MB of RAM running Linux 2.0.0. (I still remember upgrading from 1.x.x.) The computer lived at the address …

Note. The following is my own opinion. Yes, I mention my employer. But keep in mind that I'm just writing my own opinion about my employer.

Have you read this?
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html




People who do what the GPL tries to prevent (e.g., closed source forks of open source projects) wind up injuring only themselves


Eric, I don't think you understand what the GNU GPL represents. It protects us from corporations absorbing the project into itself. If MySQL the software was licensed under the BSD license, MySQL the company would have no reason to contribute back to the original source.

After a while, MySQL the …

If the company MySQL is the cathedral in the bazaar, then Zak Greant was the secretary to the cathedral’s friends - he recently resigned.

His official title was “Community Advocate”. Once, he described his work to me like this: “Imagine MySQL AB as a person that acts in a social environment, then me and David Axmark take care that this person behaves properly in the Open Source community and is accepted within the group.” The last 2 years, Zak was mostly concerned with the licensing issues that arouse when the MySQL client library became GPLed.

Zak’s two main concerns were - …