Let’s be clear from the get-go: contrary to what this picture and the title of this post may suggest, we are not giving Oliver - SkySQL’s honorary mascot - away next week! He was very good, though, to pose for this picture to help us better illustrate the size of this inflatable seal! We’ll let your imagination decide what else this photo represents. Or better yet, join us in Santa Clara, next week, at what’s looking to be a pretty exciting gathering of MySQL-aficionados!

That’s right, the SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database and Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo events are just around the corner!

So what’s the deal with the Consulting Lounge?

Well, next Friday (April 13th), at the SkySQL and MariaDB …

SkySQL and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition!

This year's Percona Live event is the best ever, with a better lineup of talks and speakers than ever before. Combined with our SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database, Drizzle Day and Sphinx Day on Friday, It's …

Winners of the Developer.com Product of the Year 2009 have been announced and you won’t be surprised to know..

NetBeans is certainly back with a bang ! We won FIVE awards out of TWELVE..

Here’s an excerpt from the announcement,

In the past due to close races, runner ups were also recognized. This year there were no close calls. Each winner won its category with a respectable margin.

In the case of Java Tools the winner had almost three times the votes of the others finalists in the category combined.

It is no surprise that the Development Tool category received the most votes. The second most popular category continues to be Open Source. Looking back …

Have you ever heard about VoiceXML? It's a W3C standart that allows you to build web pages that are accessed by voice! It's very used for services like travel tickets selling, hotel reservation, bank account information and so on. In this post, we'll give you a general view of how to make a basic hotel reservation
application with VoiceXML and how to run it using Glassfish and MySQL.

First of all, for VoiceXML applications, we need a voice gateway. We used the Voxeo, it's free and provides you with phone numbers that you can call for free using Skype. All you need to do is create a free account in Voxeo and register your application by informing it's URL. After registering you'll receive the unique phone number for your application.

We'll assume you already know the basics of VoiceXML syntax for the …

Have you ever heard about VoiceXML? It’s a W3C standart that allows you to build web pages that are accessed by voice! It’s very used for services like travel tickets selling, hotel reservation, bank account information and so on. In this post, we’ll give you a general view of how to make a basic hotel reservation
application with VoiceXML and how to run it using Glassfish and MySQL.

First of all, for VoiceXML applications, we need a voice gateway. We used the Voxeo, it’s free and provides you with phone numbers that you can call for free using Skype. All you need to do is create a free account in Voxeo and register your application by informing it’s URL. After registering you’ll receive the unique phone number for your application.

We’ll assume you already know the basics of VoiceXML syntax for the …