Silona Bonewald, the lady always in a hat (she says that it’s just become an extension of her). Describe her, by her tags: open government, open data, open standards, and databases.

(watch the video if your feed reader strips it out)

Silona’s the founder of The League of Technical Voters, which allows technical people to be more involved in voting process. As part of this, she created the Transparent Federal Budget, with Bill Bradley and Jimmy Wales.

On top of all that, she’s also the open source evangelist for grid.org. The …

Here’s an update on Ivan’s status, both from a medical and contributions perspective. Three days ago, I wrote that Ivan has arrived in Germany. Instead of posting all my news on Ivan as new posting each time, I will at irregular intervals keep this page up to date.

Andrii, Ivan and the rest of the family have now started settling in in Heidelberg. Georg Richter has found an apartment for them close to the hospital, and they will move there in a few days.

The first round of tests and examinations (blood tests, bone marrow punctation) has been concluded, but I won’t share any speculations on this until we’ve got them confirmed. The examinations will continue, and the best case scenario is that a transplant could happen 8 - 10 weeks from now.

Currently donations for Ivan are at about EUR …

We knew Marc Fleury couldn’t stay out of the business world for long. The founder of JBoss has leaked details of his new venture, an open source home automation community named OpenRemote.

The OpenRemote team also includes the creator of Asterisk Mark Spencer, JBoss veterans Juha Lindfors, Christian Bauer, Java X10 project creator Wade Wassenberg, and Linux Home Automation founder Neil Cherry.

Together they, and others, plan to create a complete open source home automation including the OpenRemote Controller hardware, OpenRemote Console Applications to make use of the iPhone and iTouch as a universal remote (although any device with browser will work), …

Certifications are "in". Nowadays you can get certifications for almost every aspect of life. Admittedly, some of those certs you can just get by surviving a boring day in a classroom or more luckily for having joined a 2 week 20k yacht trip offshore hawaii that was just regularly interrupted by attending conference speaches, workshops or lessons.

Continue reading "Getting Certified with MySQL"

We are planning to redesign the demo pages for one of the next releases of XAMPP. Our demo pages are six years old by now and are screaming for an update.

To make sure that we are not just following our personal preferences, we are now looking for volunteers for our usability survey.

Thank you for taking part and special thanks to Karin Kunkel, Sonja Uhl and Constanze Weiland, who are carrying out this survey for us.

What started off as a fast light weight DB and came off as MySQL, has now grown into a heavy dB for some (we always have these :) ).

Introducing Drizzle http://krow.livejournal.com/602409.html

In short it is...

• ... for Web based apps.
• ... for Cloud components.
• Databases without business logic (aka stored procedures).

...more

read more

What started off as a fast light weight DB and came off as MySQL, has now grown into a heavy dB for some (we always have these :) ).

Introducing Drizzle http://krow.livejournal.com/602409.html

In short it is...

• ... for Web based apps.
• ... for Cloud components.
• Databases without business logic (aka stored procedures).

...more

read more

Sebastian Bergmann's slides of his presentation at OSCON this week. Quality Assurance in PHP Projects is a workshop by Sebastian (author of PHPUnit) in Melbourne (4-6 August) and Brisbane (11-12,14 August), on my invitation. This was triggered by meeting up with him earlier this year at the MySQL Conf in Santa Clara, and a discussion I had a month or so later with Jonathan Oxer of IVT.

I've been promoting various aspects of development process improvements through the keynote selection at OSDC 2007, the distributed revision control talk at the combined MySQL/PHP user groups in Brisbane by Ian Clatworthy (Canonical/Bazaar), and of course test-driven development for PHP is another key aspect. PHP …

A while ago I wrote about MySQL 5.1 information schema plug-ins.

At the time, I wrote a plug-in to report the contents of the query cache, but for all kinds of reasons, I never found the time to write a decent article about it, nor to release the code.

I am not sure if I'll ever find the time to write that article, but I just tidied up the code, and installed it in a new MySQL 5.1.26-rc server. It seems to work there, so I put the code up on the web.

Inside the source file, there's instructions to build and deploy it. If all goes well, you can do …

drizzle is an interesting new development in the mysql landscape. brian aker, who came along to sun microsystems in the acquisition but is actually now part of sun labs, not the database group, has taken the mysql server and started to strip it down to the bare metal. he isn’t working alone, of course, but has picked up some contributors during the stealthy period before they announced it at oscon on tuesday.

if you were paying attention the other day, you may have dug around my launchpad code page and noticed that i had a branch of drizzle where i was applying some fixes to make it build on mac os x. that should be merged into the main tree soon, so that branch will soon be retired. i’m not sure what i might try to do next.

drizzle isn’t something i am …