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Kudos to Lenz, who, acting on an idea launched by Ronald Bradford some time ago, has put together a comprehensive calendar of open source events. Most of them are somehow related to the MySQL ecosystem, but there is no limitation to what the calendar contains. Here is the announcement, with the instructions to use and contribute to the calendar. |
In addition to informing you about the events, this calendar does also tell you when a …
[Read more]Matt Asay and Marten Micknos both tweeted about Oracle's ad targeted at Sun customers that ran in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. It's also on Oracle's Web site:
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The next OpenSQLCamp will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is being organized by Eric Day, well known to the open source community for his active and productive participation to several projects (especially Drizzle and Gearman). |
The event is public and free. Therefore, it needs public
sponsoring. I don't know yet if I can attend, but I have already
donated something to the organizers, and I am officially a
sponsor. You can be one too. Simply go to the sponsors page and donate a minimum of $100 as in
individual or $250 as an …
As noted in a previous post, I have released MyQuery 3.1. A user
found a nasty little unnecessary bug that caused a crash in the
profile dialog, when the Group by status checkbox was clicked
when there was no data. This has now been fixed and a 3.1.1
version it available on Sourceforge for download.
/Karlsson
The first production version of the MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org has been released. You can download it from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/mysql_connector. The driver is implemented as an OpenOffice.org extension and thus it is very easy to install. The driver can be used in OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 and the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.2 to connect to MySQL 5.1 or newer. Installation and first steps are described on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Database/Drivers/MySQL_Native/1.0.
The driver offers the following advantages over MySQL Connector/ODBC and MySQL Connector/J:
The first production version of the MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org has been released. You can download it from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/mysql_connector. The driver is implemented as an OpenOffice.org extension and thus it is very easy to install. The driver can be used in OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 and the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.2 to connect to MySQL 5.1 or newer. Installation and first steps are described on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Database/Drivers/MySQL_Native/1.0.
The driver offers the following advantages over MySQL Connector/ODBC and MySQL Connector/J:
Today (September 10, 13:00 UTC), Mark Leith will show how to customize the MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Customizing MySQL Enterprise Monitor. Mark is a MySQL support manager, and knows Enterprise Monitor by heart.
For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but you don't have to. (Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording, and more.) All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie (.flv). You can find those …
[Read more]In PHP 5.3 the magic quotes feature has been deprecated and with PHP 6 magic quotes will be removed completely. There are good reasons why magic quotes are bad, but how to live without?
I think the most promising solution is to (finally) start using MySQLi instead of PHP's classic MySQL extension. It's not as easy and straightforward to use as the classic one, but it's easier and probably more secure than to fight SQL injections by ones own hands.
Today (September 10, 13:00 UTC), Mark Leith will show how to customize the MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Customizing MySQL Enterprise Monitor. Mark is a MySQL support manager, and knows Enterprise Monitor by heart.
For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but you don't have to. (Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording, and more.) All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie (.flv). You can find those …
[Read more]Today (September 10, 13:00 UTC), Mark Leith will show how to customize the MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Customizing MySQL Enterprise Monitor. Mark is a MySQL support manager, and knows Enterprise Monitor by heart.
For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but you don't have to. (Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording, and more.) All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie (.flv). You can find those …
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