CIO published an article highlighting 5 cheap (or free)
software that can be afforded during financial crisis. Their
recommendations are:
I’ve mentioned a number of times that the documentation repositories that we use to build the docs are freely available, and so they are, but how do you go about using them?
More and more people are getting interested in being able to work with the MySQL docs, judging by the queries we get, and internally we sometimes get specialized requests.
There are some limitations - although you can download and access the docs and generate your own versions in various formats, you are not allowed to distribute or supply that iinformation, it can only be employed for personal use. The reasons and disclaimer for that are available on the main page for each of the docs, such as the one on the 5.1 Manual.
Those issues aside, if you want to use and generate your own docs from the Subversion source tree then you’ll need the following:
This blog is about OurDelta, my visit to PGDay (and resulting quest to search for a good nntp reader for OSX) and my long term search for a good set of bluetooth stereo headsets. So lets start with OurDelta. The other day Arjen pokes me about OurDelta. The idea is to offer a place for distribution of all those tasty MySQL patches that float around the web (like from Mark, the Google guys etc.), that simply do not fit in MySQL's research schedule. Obviously this is awesome. There are packages for all sorts of distros (I am sure Windows will come one of these days too), which takes away some of the scaryness for people not comfortable with building things themselves. Moreover you know that there are other people that are using the same binaries and I guess one of the key things that OurDelta could build is a better way to communicate about success and failure when using some of these patches.
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[Read more]I’m speaking at the MySQL European Customer Conference this week (Thursday, 23rd), on the topic of the best deployment practices for using MySQL on Solaris.
I’ll be covering a number of topics, including:
Some of the material I’ve already covered before (see my presentation at the London Solaris User’s Group, but most of the content will be new and more focused than the top level …
[Read more]This poll was posted last week on Arjen’s blog and is still open for a few more days to receive your vote. The comments on the original post contain some interesting considerations either way, and many in fact non-technical. Anyway, please add your vote, and optionally your thoughts to the comment thread!
I'm just done listening to a presentation on MySQL from my esteemed MySQL colleague Robin Schumacher. Robin is director of product management at Sun/MySQL. Not being a database expert, I thoroughly enjoyed Robin's whirlwind tour of MySQL. I want to note of a couple of highlights that caught my attention :
Brian Aker delivers the keynote speech at OpenSQL Camp: State of the Open Source Databases.
The presentation begins with:
"There is no way I'm going to tell you exactly where the future
of databases go. We have way too many egos in the room to ever
even begin a discussion..."
and ends with Aker saying,
"What the hell does that mean?"
My summary: open source databases are already ubiquitous, we need to make them better/faster/consume fewer resources.
Brian's summary: What part of my keynote surprised people? How ubiquitous bot nets are, and how they act as a big decentralized data store.
I'm just done listening to a presentation on MySQL from my esteemed MySQL colleague Robin Schumacher. Robin is director of product management at Sun/MySQL. Not being a database expert, I thoroughly enjoyed Robin's whirlwind tour of MySQL. I want to note of a couple of highlights that caught my attention :
I'm just done listening to a presentation on MySQL from my esteemed MySQL colleague Robin Schumacher. Robin is director of product management at Sun/MySQL. Not being a database expert, I thoroughly enjoyed Robin's whirlwind tour of MySQL. I want to note of a couple of highlights that caught my attention :
The setup on Launchpad is better organised (Launchpad rocks!), and we already have the first feedback in the form of bugreports - mainly on the packaging and repo information. That’s excellent! Thanks Vladimir Cherednichenko, Steve Walsh, and Peter Lieverdink! Peter actually deserves a special mention as he has put in a lot of work on the debian packaging.
Also, because sometimes instant banter is useful, there’s now a #ourdelta channel on Freenode. Naturally, real discussion should just happen on the ourdelta-developers team and list. It’s really easy to join.
Antony Curtis did just that (join) and already put one of his many patches in: this one fixes issues which occur while a thread …
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