Hot on the heals of last week's release we have released version 0.2.0 alpha of libAttachSQL.  For those who have missed my previous blog posts, libAttachSQL is a lightweight C connector for MySQL servers I'm creating with HP's Advanced Technology Group.  It has an Apache 2 license so is good for linking with most Open Source licenses as well as commercial software projects.

Changes in this release:

• Added support for query result buffering
• Passive connect on first query is now asynchronous
• Improved memory handling
• Many documentation changes, including API examples
• Many other smaller fixes

For more information see the libAttachSQL documentation and the …

As I briefly mentioned in my previous post, I have been working on a new project for HP's Advanced Technology Group called libAttachSQL.

libAttachSQL is a lightweight C connector for MySQL servers.  It is Apache 2 licensed (and therefore compatible with many open source licenses as well as commercial use) and has a new asynchronous API.  With the new API you send a command which returns immediately and you poll until the library tells you there are results ready, this is very useful for applications that have many things going on that you do not want held up by waiting for the MySQL server to process a query.  In later posts I will give usage examples of this.

I am a great believer in release early/often so on Friday, 5 weeks after I started …

One big project I'm working on for HP's Advanced Technology Group right now is an Apache 2.0 licensed C connector for MySQL servers called libAttachSQL.  The whole process, not just the code itself, is helping us learn about new and current techniques in Open Source development.  Whilst I will be writing many posts about libAttachSQL in the future, today's post is about the free hosted services we are using around it.
GitHubAlmost all previous Open Source projects I have worked on in the past have been hosted on Canonical's Launchpad platform.  Over the last couple of years there has been a shift to using GitHub and almost everything I have worked on at HP has been hosted there.  Now there are many services that hook into GitHub so this seemed like the perfect …