Late last year I bought a Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop for my work machine while on the road. It was a fine machine, plenty powerful to run all the tools I need to document MySQL.

The laptop came with a two-edged sword — the 1920×1200 WUXGA screen had awesome resolution, allowing one to work on so many windows at once it was practically like having dual monitors. The disadvantage was that the screen had a lowsy anti-glare coating that produced a sparkle effect when your viewing angle shifted, which can be read about with this Google search.

I first thought this was just the way the screen was and dealt with it, but it later became apparent that this screen was sub-standard compared to …

Someone at work today pointed out a podcast from Tom Kyte (a fountain of Oracle knowledge who‘s really hooked into his user community) of Oracle that covers Oracle 10g XE (their “free” product).

Both Tom Kyte and Oracle use Feedburner to deliver their podcasts and other RSS feeds (a great service btw, I use their application to deliver my blog‘s RSS feed as well, plus they‘re in Chicago, so I‘ve visited with their folks a few times).

What I find ironic is that Feedburner uses MySQL and Connector/J to power their service ;)

Someone at work today pointed out a podcast from Tom Kyte (a fountain of Oracle knowledge who's really hooked into his user community) of Oracle that covers Oracle 10g XE (their "free" product).

Both Tom Kyte and Oracle use Feedburner to deliver their podcasts and other RSS feeds (a great service btw, I use their application to deliver my blog's RSS feed as well, plus they're in Chicago, so I've visited with their folks a few times).

What I find ironic is that Feedburner uses MySQL and Connector/J to power their service ;)

Someone at work today pointed out a podcast from Tom Kyte (a fountain of Oracle knowledge who‘s really hooked into his user community) of Oracle that covers Oracle 10g XE (their “free” product).

Both Tom Kyte and Oracle use Feedburner to deliver their podcasts and other RSS feeds (a great service btw, I use their application to deliver my blog‘s RSS feed as well, plus they‘re in Chicago, so I‘ve visited with their folks a few times).

What I find ironic is that Feedburner uses MySQL and Connector/J to power their service ;)

Well, the sample database has not yet been released, but that is not stopping Roland Bouman from using it to demonstrate crosstab queries.

Good to see some use coming of the effort put forth so far.

it’s annoying. grr.

but, on the other hand, I am speaking about MySQL 5.0 at OSDC.

This is even cooler as 5.0 has gone GA. So it’s not “upcoming features” it’s the “here and now”.

I’ll now have to release MemberDB 0.4 (the MySQL release). Converting the Linux Australia installation over at some point soon too. The 0.4 tree fixes enough bugs that it’s worth it (one of which Pia found the other day).

At AUUG2005 last week, Arjen, myself and others were discussing the idea of trying to assemble some sort of common resources that multiple projects can use to contribute and find out about portability issues they stumble across.

The idea being that we can all then learn from each other and write better, more portable software.

So, I’ve set something up.

I present, the incredibly bare (okay, not quite completely bare) PortaWiki.

Please add whatever stuff you find, you know or anything. No idea how this is going to work - I plan to let it evolve.

(Arjen tells me that Peter Gutmann should receive credit as he thinks he came up with the idea. Kudos to him).

http://www.flamingspork.com/portawiki/

I’m currently watching a Solaris 10 install under QEMU on my laptop. It seems to be taking a while, but getting there.

(I got a Solaris 10 DVD in my AUUG shwag)

Basically, I want to play with DTrace and see how easy it is to do things with it. Solaris seems to be the requirement. I don’t want to have a partition for it nor run it as a primary OS. So, qemu it is.

I can also then use the funky disk image foo with qemu so that i don’t waste a lot of space (mmm… sparse disk images).

For a 7GB qemu-img created filesystem, used intirely as /, it seems that there’s 128MB overhead for having the file system. The installer is chugging away writing things and this seems to be constant.

So, all in all i should end up using a bit less than 3GB of real disk …

It’s been a busy few weeks for me whilst I settle in to my post at MySQL, and certainly an interesting time to join!

I came across two bug reports today, that show the fun side of the people that work here at MySQL. First one from Mark Matthews - who looks after connector/j:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=2

Next one from Arjen Lentz, our Community Relations Manager:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1603

It’s been a busy few weeks for me whilst I settle in to my post at MySQL, and certainly an interesting time to join!

I came across two bug reports today, that show the fun side of the people that work here at MySQL. First one from Mark Matthews - who looks after connector/j:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=2

Next one from Arjen Lentz, our Community Relations Manager:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1603