Hi all,

This is my last blog entry for the year 2008. I've blogged 227 times this year, about a variety of topics (mostly NetBeans). I enjoy blogging. It puts me in touch with the community, making me much more approachable by community members.

2008 was a great year. Here is a sample of what I was able to witness or take part in (I've tried to put them in chronological order):

• Sun's acquisition of MySQL
• NetBeans switching from CVS to Mercurial
• Sun presentations in Second Life
• 100th NetBeans Community Docs contribution
• The release of NetBeans 6.0.1
• The creation of a NetBeans Community Docs blog
• New Woodstock components in the NB Palette
• My visit to St. Petersburg, Russia
• Big Database changes in NetBeans IDE (ongoing)
• The release of NetBeans 6.1
• A new Contribution Coordinator for NetBeans …

Sun has invited me to showcase Maatkit at the dot-org pavilion at the upcoming MySQL Conference and Expo 2009. At this time it’s really hard to say what I’ll be demoing! Development on Maatkit is accelerating and I don’t look for that to change, so who knows what we’ll have done by then. [...]

I want you to tell me the story of how you got started with the Net.

Tell me how your passion was sparked and why it keeps coming to full flame.

Tell me why the Net matters to you, even after all of the long days, short nights and wrecked weekends.

I’ve been writing my story because I need to understand why I care deeply for what the Net is and what it means.

I want to read your story for the same reason.

Don’t hold out on me now. I can see your data trails in my server logs: a few hundred of you trudging in from RSS subscriptions, the PHP, Mozilla and MySQL planets, Boris’ …

Hello everyone! Before I move to the seasonal greetings, let me share some exciting news.

2008 was quite remarkable for Pythian and, in addition to our ongoing success and growth, we established Pythian Europe back in May. To top it off, we have now laid the foundation for Pythian East Asia Pacific.

Pythian Australia Pty Ltd was incorporated and started official operations in Australia this month, taking over service delivery for the region. We have a few local clients and already signed some new ones, so this is quite an exciting beginning.

Today, there are three of us working in Sydney office:

A little bit of history. Pythian has operated in Australia for almost three years by now (well, longer than …

Sun's acquisition and integration of MySQL was one of the biggest stories of the year. But what's next? READ MORE

jHeidi Alpha 4 has been released and now supports Oracle databases! Basic Oracle browsing support has been implemented along side of the existing MySQL support to allow seamless browsing between the two.

In future releases, additional functionality similar to HeidiSQL MySQL features will be implemented.

jHeidi Alpha 4 is only available from http://jheidi.com/ and not through the auto update process currently.

Today we announce release 1.0.2-2 of our XtraDB storage engine.

Here is a list of enhancements:

• split-buffer_pool_mutex

The patch splits global InnoDB buffer_pool mutex into several and eliminates waitings on flush IO and mutex when there is no enough free buffers. It helps if you have performance drops when data does not fit in memory.

• innodb_extra_undoslots

InnoDB has a concurrent transaction limit of 1024 because in the standard InnoDB the number of undo slots is fixed value. This patch expands the maximum number of undo slots to 4072 and allows better utilizing modern hardware. (Thank …

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“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I like beginnings. This is a constant. In primary school, I tried to re-invent arithmetic. My D&D characters were obsessively re-rolled and scrapped. On various computers, I’d start my games of Civilization over and over. I’d hope that if …

Sometimes one has weird ideas, or am I the only one? - This specific one is at least a year old, now, during the Christmas days, waiting for New Year's Eve I had the time and mood to finally try it out: MySQL 5.1 has a plugin interface to easily add storage engines. PHP can easily embedded into other applications.  So why not combine these two things? - Writing a MySQL Storage Engine which reads data by calling a PHP script.

Let's start with a simple example first:

<?phpfunction create_table($table, $data) {
    return true;
}

function open_table($table) {
…

Sun has invited me to showcase Maatkit at the dot-org pavilion at the upcoming MySQL Conference and Expo 2009. At this time it’s really hard to say what I’ll be demoing! Development on Maatkit is accelerating and I don’t look for that to change, so who knows what we’ll have done by then. I’ll see you there.