Just in case you missed this, last week I announced that my team is looking for an experienced technical writer. Now the job offer has gone live on the Oracle website. Have a look! That's the EMEA job site, but the position is actually available for Europe or North America. The job offer should appear on the American site soon, too.
If you want to join a great team, or if you know someone suitable
who does, don't hesitate
to contact me!
As MySQL is thriving and growing, we're looking for an
experienced technical writer located in Europe or North America
to join the MySQL documentation team.
For this job, we need the best and most dedicated people around.
You will be part of a geographically distributed documentation
team responsible for the technical documentation of all MySQL
products. Team members are expected to work independently,
requiring discipline and excellent time-management skills as well
as the technical facilities to communicate across the
Internet.
Candidates should be prepared to work intensively with our
engineers and support personnel. The overall team is highly
distributed across different geographies and time zones. Our
source format is DocBook XML. We're not just writing
documentation, but also handling publication. This means you
should be familiar with DocBook, and willing to learn our
publication infrastructure.
…
If you want to be part of the team that creates the official Oracle training on MySQL and meet the following criteria ...
Experience of course design
... then this is the opportunity for you!
Learn more about our open position for MySQL Curriculum Developer here.
There was a point a few years ago where Sun could have had the next generation UNIX filesystem. It was in Solaris (and people were excited), there was a port to MacOS X (that was quite exciting for people) and there was a couple of ways to run it on linux (and people were excited). So… instead of the fractured landscape of ext3, HFS+ and (the various variations of) UFS we could have had one file system that was common between all of the commonly used UNIX-like variants. Think of being able to use a file system on a removable drive that isn’t FAT and being able to take it from machine to machine (well… Windows would be a problem, but it always is).
There was some really great work done in OpenSolaris with integration between the file manager and ZFS snapshots (a slider bar to browse the history of a directory, an idea I’ve championed for over a decade now, although the Sun implementation was likely completely independently developed). …
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The MySQL UC this past week was the best in years. Percona
did an outstanding job of organizing the main Percona Live event that ran Tuesday through
Thursday. About 1000 people attended, which is up from the
800 or so at the O'Reilly-run conference in 2011. There
were also excellent follow-on events on Friday for MariaDB/SkySQL, Drizzle, and Sphinx.
What made this conference different was the renewed energy around
MySQL and the number of companies using it.
The Oracle Linux and Virtualization Documentation Team is seeking
an experienced Technical Writer
with a focus on writing documentation for the Oracle Linux
product. (The MySQL Documentation Team is part of that group as
well.)
Applicants should be located in either Ireland, the UK, Sweden, Norway, …
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The Oracle Linux and Virtualization Documentation Team is seeking
an experienced Technical Writer
with a focus on writing documentation for the Oracle Linux
product. (The MySQL Documentation Team is part of that group as
well.)
Applicants should be located in either Ireland, the UK, Sweden, Norway, …
[Read more]The installation through the Solaris repository is as simple as typing:
$ pkg install mysql-50
to obtain MySQL 5.0.91 (status Jan 18, 2012) or click on this link to launch the interactive installer.
$ pkg install mysql-51
to obtain MySQL 5.1.37 (status Jan. 18, 2012) or click on this link to launch the interactive installer.
using one of the two databases
with SAP Kernel 7.20_ext are supported on Solaris 11. The details are documented in the SAP note 1643799 (access for SAP customers only).
Oracle last week quietely announced the addition of new extended capabilities in MySQL Enterprise Edition, confirming the adoption of the open core licensing strategy, as we reported last November.
The news was both welcomed and derided. Rather than re-hashing previous arguments about open core licensing, what interests me more about the move is how it illustrates the different strategies adopted by Sun and Oracle for driving revenue from MySQL, and how a single project can be used to describe most of the major strategies …
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