Today, will go down in my professional history as quite possibly the lowest I would ever think of a software developer. I’ve carefully avoided the term “fellow coder”, speaking of a IT industry sticking by fellow IT people, but not today.

I presently support an existing production system, some 1000+ users that’s been in place around 3 years in which I’ve had no prior involvement until recently. Integration with other external parties within the system have provided an esclation in errors being reported in this external communication, and lack of adequate feedback to the user is another topic. Email is the means of reporting administratively of user errors, again another topic of issue. Within these emails, which are almost impossible to manage due to the limited internal GUI only toolset and lack of access to actual email account files to automate scripting (yet another topic? Do you see a trend here), is some relevent information …

It’s been a hectic week, and it’s only Tuesday.

My wife and I recently made a decision to move on from MySQL. My passion is software development, and my experience doesn’t lend itself well to database development. Therefore, I’m returning to Amazon on Monday, if my intel is correct.

Through a strange series of coincidences, my resume was submitted to the same group which I left 14 short months ago. I will be returning to HTML, JavaScript, Perl, shell script and a tad bit of Java development.

It has been a pleasure working for and with MySQL AB. They make a wonderful database, and their support folks are top notch. I’ll miss them all. But heck, I can stay in touch just as easily as ever. That’s one nice thing about working in a virtual company: you learn to keep in touch by any means necessary.

The roses are blooming. The lawn is mowed. Summer vacation starts Real Soon Now™, and I’ll be taking …

My work life is really fragmented at present, so I’ve decided a split approach in answer to Dave Rosenberg’s How I Work–what I have learned so far .

CentOS 4.3
FireFox 1.5, ThunderBird 1.5, Gaim, SSH, Skype, Open Office 2.
Maybe not all of these every day, but some combination of each day –> MySQL 4.1, MySQL 5.0, MySQL 5.1, MySQL Workbench, Eclipse 3.1, J2DK 1.4.2, J2DK 5.0, Apache Tomcat 5.0.28, Apache Httpd 2.0.53, JMeter.

Presently also configuring a new laptop drive running …

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I migrated the blogs’ database and code from moonunit to avenger, both of which run Debian Sarge. Y’all should now notice a vast improvement in throughput. The ISP that Moonunit sits on should also see a large decrease in traffic.

Today, I added a campaign to raise funds for hosting. If you have any extra funds, please help me with colocation costs. It’s expensive and y’all use up a bunch of bandwidth. If you find this site …

Had dinner with Joe Kotke from Feedburner and Gavin King at a local sushi place, and then came back to the hotel to kick off the Java BoF.

Got a lot of interesting feedback from the small community of Java developers at this conference (have to figure out how to get more to attend…Gavin and I were both talking at lunch between each other and other Java users here at the conference that there are a lot of people using Java and MySQL together, much more so than is represented here).

Maybe one way to get more Java developers here is to do what happened in an ad-hoc way tonight, which was to have Gavin sit in on the Geronimo BoF with Jeff Genender from Virtuas, a committer on the Geronimo project. Sparks flew, it got heated (but still a good discussion with a lot of participation), but at the end both guys shook …

Had dinner with Joe Kotke from Feedburner and Gavin King at a local sushi place, and then came back to the hotel to kick off the Java BoF.

Got a lot of interesting feedback from the small community of Java developers at this conference (have to figure out how to get more to attend...Gavin and I were both talking at lunch between each other and other Java users here at the conference that there are a lot of people using Java and MySQL together, much more so than is represented here).

Maybe one way to get more Java developers here is to do what happened in an ad-hoc way tonight, which was to have Gavin sit in on the Geronimo BoF with Jeff Genender from Virtuas, a committer on the Geronimo project. Sparks flew, it got heated (but still a good discussion with a lot of participation), but at the end both guys shook …

Had dinner with Joe Kotke from Feedburner and Gavin King at a local sushi place, and then came back to the hotel to kick off the Java BoF.

Got a lot of interesting feedback from the small community of Java developers at this conference (have to figure out how to get more to attend…Gavin and I were both talking at lunch between each other and other Java users here at the conference that there are a lot of people using Java and MySQL together, much more so than is represented here).

Maybe one way to get more Java developers here is to do what happened in an ad-hoc way tonight, which was to have Gavin sit in on the Geronimo BoF with Jeff Genender from Virtuas, a committer on the Geronimo project. Sparks flew, it got heated (but still a good discussion with a lot of participation), but at the end both guys shook …

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You can submit your proposal online or by downloading and filling out forms provided from this page. The winner can win a 10kEUR prize, which will be presented during the JAX, Enterprise Architecture, and Eclipse Forum Europe …

Being a CVS Version Control Person, I’ve had to learn Subversion as part of Open Source Contribution. Both MySQL and JMeter use SVN.

Steps for integration of SVN into Eclipse IDE. Refer to Subclipse for more information.

Installation of JMeter via SVN

• Start Eclipse
• Help | Software Updates | Find and Install
• Search For New Features To Install [Next]
• [New Remote Site]
• URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.0.x
• [Finish]

• Tick Subclipse [Next]
• I accept Terms and Condtions [Next] …

As part of my using JMeter for the purpose of testing a new Transactional storage engine PBXT for MySQL, I’ve been investigating the best approach for handling transactions. Read more about earlier decisions at my earlier post Testing a new MySQL Transactional Storage Engine.

I found that the JMeter JDBC Sampler only supports SELECT and UPDATE Statements, and not calls to stored procedures. This is just one approach I’m considering taking.

Well, I guess it’s time to contribute code to an Apache Project. I’ve modified code and logged bugs before for Tomcat, but this will be my first attempt …