Background

It is a pain to create binary packages.  But installing a program from source tarball is a tedious task.  You need to run ./configure & make && make install.  Sometimes you need to resolve the dependencies by hand as well.  That's where source-code-based package distribution systems come in, and the largest system is, IMHO, CPAN.  If you could upload a autotools-based distribution onto CPAN, then the users of the software can install them with the cpan command (or cpanp or cpanf or whatever), with the dependencies automatically resolved.

And for my case, it was considered especially benefitial, since the program I am now working on (it's called incline, a replicator for RDB shards using MySQL or PostgreSQL), uses perl scripts for running tests.  By distributing …

So where will I be at over the next couple of months?

In October I will be hitting the Malaysian Open Source Conference:
http://foss.my/

In November I will be making my way to Portland for the OpenSQL Camp:
http://opensqlcamp.org/Main_Page

In January I will be attending Linux.Conf.Au
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/

In Malaysia I have scheduled talks on Drizzle, Gearman, and Memcached. For SQL camp there will be more of the same :)

Looking for more information in Gearman? Check out this article by Rasmus Lerdorf:
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A survey of more than 400 developers showed that MySQL is closing the lead Microsoft's SQL server has in emerging markets. More than 50 percent of developers in the emerging market countries said they are using Microsoft's SQL Server, but 46 percent said they are using MySQL.

This is another great news, after the results coming from the european SMBs survey. The adoption and usage of MySQL is still growing despite the economic downturn. Go MySQL!

The NoSQL event in New York had a number of presentations on non relational technologies including of Hadoop, MongoDB and CouchDB.

Coming historically from a relational background of 20 years with Ingres, Oracle and MySQL I have been moving my focus towards non relational data store. The most obvious and well used today is memcached, a non persistent distributed key/value pair store. There are a number of persistent key/value stores in the marketplace, Tokyo Cabinet, …

Reference: MySQL Manual

If you are trying to evaluate some free open source application available on various websites(which are especially developed using PHP) and when the application try to access newer version of MySQL server you may end up seeing a error message like below


Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client


 Reason for this unwanted welcome message is that In older versions of PHP, the mysql extension does not support the authentication protocol used in MySQL 4.1.1 and higher. This is true regardless of the PHP version being used. If you wish to use the mysql extension with MySQL 4.1 or newer, you may need to follow one of the options discussed above for configuring MySQL to work with old clients. The mysqli extension (stands for "MySQL, Improved"; added in PHP 5) is …

6.3.27a and 7.0.8a source releases are now available from ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/

The source releases for MySQL Cluster 6.3.27 and 7.0.8 have been withdrawn so that a bug can be fixed; new versions should be out very soon.

A regression in MySQL Cluster 7.0.8 and 6.3.27 has caused them to be removed from download.

Problem:
If you have a mysql server with higher node id than 49, then it will cause cluster to crash.

An updated version of MySQL Cluster 7.0.8, called 7.0.8a will be released very soon.

The Configurator has been reverted back to use 7.0.7 and 6.3.26.

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Patents
# Red Hat urged the Supreme Court to to make clear that it excludes software from patentability, while the SFLC and the FSF also filed briefs with the US Supreme Court arguing against software patents.

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Error message: Slave I/O thread: error reconnecting to master Last_IO_Error: error connecting to master Diagnosis: Check that the slave can connect to the master instance, using the following steps: Use ping to check the master is reachable. eg ping master.yourdomain.com … Continue reading →