Probably the most frequently asked question to the docs team at MySQL from the public is ?I want to translate the manual into [insert language]?. That language can be anything from one we already have, through to some comparatively obscure suggestions.
Jul
15
2006
Jul
05
2006
I noticed this piece from Johan Andersson on Writing NDBAPI programs?connecting to MySQL Cluster last week, which shows you how to use the NDBAPI?the programming interface to the MySQL Cluster system. By coincidence, we enabled the NDBAPI documentation today. It consists of two elements:
Jul
01
2006
This week, and specifically today, marks a minor milestone in my employment at MySQL?I?m finally a full time employee, no longer on probation. It has also been probably the busiest week since I started at MySQL, except for the week spent at the developers? conference in Sorrento.
Why so busy?
Because I?ve spent many hours deep in the build process that actually generates the documentation, partly to address some existing errors, but also to improve the documentation after some new content was added. In summary, the following major steps were made this week:
Jun
22
2006
At the developers conference this year, held in Sorrento, Italy, I was fortunate enough to meet and have dinner with some Italian MySQL users?some of whom had travelled from Rome to be with us that evening at a lovely traditional Italian restaurant just off one of the main squares.
Jun
20
2006
Documentation is a vital part of any application, proprietary or free software, as it is often the first way to communicate with users about the application or software and how it should be used. I also think it tends to be one of the areas most taken for granted; most users expect it to be there and often forget just how much effort goes into producing it.
Many users also complain about the documentation itself. Often this is because it?s been written by programmers and, as a rule, they really aren?t that great at writing documentation that is particularly human readable.
Jun
15
2006