So, a while back, not sure when, I was listening to the P3 Podcast and Paul mentioned his dislike for Wordpress.  He said he wished there was a simple blogging application.  I am probably misquoting him horribly.  It was an idea that I had been tinkering with.  So, I started on Wordcraft in my spare time.  Like super spare time.  That time between the kids going to bed and me falling  asleep.  So, it took a while to get it to a usable state.

Up until now, I have used Wordpress.com for my blogging.  It works quite well.  You can get started quite quickly and it does what most people need.  My wife uses Blogger for our family blog.  It is, IMO, not as nice as Wordpress.com in some ways.  But, it does allow you to edit your styles (for free) and such which is nice.

So, why would I want to reinvent the …

So, a while back, not sure when, I was listening to the P3 Podcast and Paul mentioned his dislike for Wordpress.  He said he wished there was a simple blogging application.  I am probably misquoting him horribly.  It was an idea that I had been tinkering with.  So, I started on Wordcraft in my spare time.  Like super spare time.  That time between the kids going to bed and me falling  asleep.  So, it took a while to get it to a usable state.

Up until now, I have used Wordpress.com for my blogging.  It works quite well.  You can get started quite quickly and it does what most people need.  My wife uses Blogger for our family blog.  It is, IMO, not as nice as Wordpress.com in some ways.  But, it does allow you to edit your styles (for free) and such which is nice.

So, why would I want to reinvent the …

A couple of weeks ago I was at the MySQL European Customer Conference in London, where I was presenting my talk on deploying MySQL on Solaris best practices. You can download a copy of the presentation here: MySQL on Solaris Best Practices.

I cover both choosing the best release version, using tricks like mtmalloc (the threaded malloc library) before moving on to UFS and ZFS tricks, using DTrace and MySQL Cluster and Sun Cluster.

With Glassfish V3 and Netbeans 6.5, it is easy to move applications which run on Tomcat using Toplink/EclipseLink to Glassfish v3 Prelude.

The sample application contained in the zip file JPAWeb_TC6_Toplink-1.zip, is a simple web app using JSTL, Servlet, JSP and TopLink Essentials to store contact information into a MySQL database.

To Deploy and run the application on Tomcat, you need place a copy of the MySQL JDBC driver in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib and have a MySQL database which is accessible and that you have permissions to create tables in.

The application uses JNDI to access a Data Source defined on Tomcat (in our case via the context.xml). This requires you to use specify the Toplink property toplink.session.customizer in your persistence.xml indicating that a SessionCustomizer will be used so that the lookup type on the JNDI …

I wrote yesterday that Christensen’s law of Conservation of Attractive Profits could be used to explain why open source vendors are increasingly turning to hybrid development and licensing strategies to generate revenue from open source.

Before I could think about doing so Arjen Lentz wrote a comment that did a lot of the explaining for me.

To recap, “The Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits”, articulated by Clayton Christensen in his book The Innovator’s Solution, states:

“When attractive profits disappear at one stage in the value chain because a product becomes modular and commoditized, the …

You might be wondering what's been happening with MySQL performance since Sun arrived on the scene. The good news is that we haven't been idle. There's been general recognition that MySQL could benefit from some performance and scalability enhancements, and Sun assembled a cross-organizational team immediately after the acquisition to get started on it. We've enjoyed excellent cooperation between the engineers from both organizations.

This kind of effort is not new for Sun - we've been working with proprietary database companies on performance for years, with source code for each of the major databases on site to help the process. In this case, the fact that the MySQL engineers are working for the same company certainly simplifies a lot of things.

If you'd like to get some insight into what's been happening, a video has just …

With Glassfish V3 and Netbeans 6.5, it is easy to move applications which run on Tomcat using Toplink/EclipseLink to Glassfish v3 Prelude.

The sample application contained in the zip file JPAWeb_TC6_Toplink-1.zip, is a simple web app using JSTL, Servlet, JSP and TopLink Essentials to store contact information into a MySQL database.

To Deploy and run the application on Tomcat, you need place a copy of the MySQL JDBC driver in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib and have a MySQL database which is accessible and that you have permissions to create tables in.

The application uses JNDI to access a Data Source defined on Tomcat (in our case via the context.xml). This requires you to use specify the Toplink property toplink.session.customizer in your persistence.xml indicating …

With Glassfish V3 and Netbeans 6.5, it is easy to move applications which run on Tomcat using Toplink/EclipseLink to Glassfish v3 Prelude.

The sample application contained in the zip file JPAWeb_TC6_Toplink-1.zip, is a simple web app using JSTL, Servlet, JSP and TopLink Essentials to store contact information into a MySQL database.

To Deploy and run the application on Tomcat, you need place a copy of the MySQL JDBC driver in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib and have a MySQL database which is accessible and that you have permissions to create tables in.

The application uses JNDI to access a Data Source defined on Tomcat (in our case via the context.xml). This requires you to use specify the Toplink property toplink.session.customizer in your persistence.xml indicating that …

With Glassfish V3 and Netbeans 6.5, it is easy to move applications which run on Tomcat using Toplink/EclipseLink to Glassfish v3 Prelude.

The sample application contained in the zip file JPAWeb_TC6_Toplink-1.zip, is a simple web app using JSTL, Servlet, JSP and TopLink Essentials to store contact information into a MySQL database.

To Deploy and run the application on Tomcat, you need place a copy of the MySQL JDBC driver in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib and have a MySQL database which is accessible and that you have permissions to create tables in.

The application uses JNDI to access a Data Source defined on Tomcat (in our case via the context.xml). This requires you to use specify the Toplink property toplink.session.customizer in your persistence.xml indicating that a SessionCustomizer will be used so that the lookup type on the JNDI …

The New Sun Microsystems  announced a new Glassfish/MySQL/OpenSolaris SPECjAppServer2004 result today. The  real highlight is that all software used in this benchmark is all Open Source Software. It is  a win for Open Source Software including Open Source Databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL. We need more of such benchmarks to highlight the exorbitant prices charged by Proprietary Database & other Software Vendors who charge and force customers to give them all their major dollars of their IT budget.

Tom Daly's blog entry highlight that in terms of Price/Performance, the proprietary database vendors who  conveniently also happen to be the …