I presented a webinar for ISV and OEMs on "Developing GlassFish- and MySQL-Backed Applications with NetBeans and JRuby-on-Rails" last week.



The slides and a complete recording of the webinar are now available here.

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The first beta version of MySQL Connector/C++ is available for download. The MySQL Driver for C++ offers a convenient API derived from the industrial standard JDBC 4.0. You can use the driver to connect to the MySQL Server 5.1 or newer. Please find more details in the official announcement mail.

GA will be almost identical to Beta

The 1.0.4 beta release is the first combined source and binary release. You can either build the MySQL Driver for C++ from source yourself or use the convenience of a prebuild binary distribution. For the Windows platform we are offering the binaries as a MSI Installer or, like on all other platforms, compressed GNU tar …

The first beta version of MySQL Connector/C++ is available for download. The MySQL Driver for C++ offers a convenient API derived from the industrial standard JDBC 4.0. You can use the driver to connect to the MySQL Server 5.1 or newer. Please find more details in the official announcement mail.

GA will be almost identical to Beta

The 1.0.4 beta release is the first combined source and binary release. You can either build the MySQL Driver for C++ from source yourself or use the convenience of a prebuild binary distribution. For the Windows platform we are offering the binaries as a MSI Installer or, like on all other platforms, compressed GNU tar …

I've been reading through the comments on the Slashdot article from yesterday and I found this gem:

one of my biggest pet peeves of MySQL... when I say CREATE TABLE(varchar(255) blah NOT NULL) please do not add your own 'DEFAULT ""' to the end--it is considered by some to be rather rude! I can spot MySQL schema's a mile away by this single trait. Anything NOT NULL almost always has a bullshit default value. Got a NOT NULL int--it will have a DEFAULT 0! Got a NOT NULL date, "DEFAULT 0000-00-00", which isn't even a valid date! How is that for taking your data seriously?

I have always agreed with the above. When we set out to create the "strict" mode within MySQL we could never get agreement on the above sort of problems. Personally I have despised this stuff for over a decade. I know where they come from, aka the limitations of …

Check out the ideas from MySQL for Google Summer of Code 2009!

These are specially-selected projects for students who are looking to do some coding in a real, open-source, highly-adopted software environment. 

The learning experience will be tremendous given that MySQL engineers will be mentoring them. 

Some student stipend is provided by the Google Summer of Code. It is intended for students to gain "exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits."

Check out the ideas from MySQL for Google Summer of Code 2009!

These are specially-selected projects for students who are looking to do some coding in a real, open-source, highly-adopted software environment. 

The learning experience will be tremendous given that MySQL engineers will be mentoring them. 

Some student stipend is provided by the Google Summer of Code. It is intended for students to gain "exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits."

Sometimes people ask why do I use MacOSX as my main work platform (isn’t that something to do with beliefs?). My answer is “good foundation with great user interface”. Though that can be treated as “he must like unix kernel and look&feel!”, it is not exactly that.

What I like is that I can have good graphical stable environment with some mandatory tools (yes, I used OS-supplied browser, mail, etc), but beside that maintain the bleeding edge open-source space (provided by MacPorts).

Also what I like, is OS-supplied development and performance tools. DTrace included is awesome, yes, but Apple did put some special touch on it too. This is visualization environment for dtrace probes and other profiling/debugging tools:

Even the web browser (well, I upgraded to Safari4.0 ;-) provides some impressive debugging …

The numerous popular MySQL forks are an unexpected consequence of Sun's acquisition. But why haven't we seen any JBoss forks since the Red Hat acquisition? READ MORE

I presented a webinar for ISV and OEMs on "Developing GlassFish- and MySQL-Backed Applications with NetBeans and JRuby-on-Rails" last week.



The slides and a complete recording of the webinar are now available here.

Technorati: webinar glassfish mysql netbeans jruby …

I presented a webinar for ISV and OEMs on "Developing GlassFish- and MySQL-Backed Applications with NetBeans and JRuby-on-Rails" last week.



The slides and a complete recording of the webinar are now available here.

Technorati: webinar glassfish mysql netbeans jruby …