I just got the rest of the production schedule from the publisher, plus the PDF files for quality control, for our upcoming book. (Now I have to proofreeed the whole book!) This is the first time I’ve seen the entire production schedule. The book is supposed to go to the printer in the first week of June. I don’t know what the on-the-shelf date will be, but I think very shortly after that.

 
When creating Visual JSF projects in NetBeans 6.0 (and 6.1) to connect to and execute database operations from a JSF application a data source is created by dragging and dropping a database table to the Design view and right on top of a JSF component.  This creates a JSF binding to the component.  By default the data source name generated is [schema name]_[database product name].  If you're using MySQL then the table name is used instead of the schema name.  To see the name generated for your database connection, for your project in the Projects window, expand the Data Source References node.

 If you want to choose the data source name generated then an option has been added.  Open the Options dialog from the Tools main menu.  Next click the Miscellaneous icon at the top and then click the Visual Web tab.  Next, check the Prompt for Data Source Name …

 
When creating Visual JSF projects in NetBeans 6.0 (and 6.1) to connect to and execute database operations from a JSF application a data source is created by dragging and dropping a database table to the Design view and right on top of a JSF component.  This creates a JSF binding to the component.  By default the data source name generated is [schema name]_[database product name].  If you're using MySQL then the table name is used instead of the schema name.  To see the name generated for your database connection, for your project in the Projects window, expand the Data Source References node.

 If you want to choose the data source name generated then an option has been added.  Open the Options dialog from the Tools main menu.  Next click the Miscellaneous icon at the top and then click the Visual Web tab.  Next, check the Prompt for Data Source Name …

The Yahoo! Developer Network (otherwise known as "YDN", also known as "where I work") is looking for a skilled webdev to work full-time at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, California.

Here's a bit of the boilerplate about the job. I've left out the "who is yahoo" stuff, since I assume your know what Yahoo is if you managed to work the Internet long enough to find this. :-)

The ideal candidate will have a strong command of JavaScript 1.0-1.5, DHTML, DOM Levels 0-2, CSS 1-2.1, HTML & XHTML, web standards, PHP, object-oriented programming, cross-browser compatibility issues, progressive enhancement, optimization techniques (both in file weight and perceived/actual rendering speed), accessibility, device-portability techniques, and internationalization issues.

Knowledge of XML, HTTP, Apache, MySQL, remote scripting, state management, working within a Unix environment, CVS, and …

Note: Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is now published.

After our last post about installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu 7.10 (November, 6th), and considering Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released on April 21st, I spent some time reviewing and putting together this new HOWTO for the installation.

Please note: I’ve used the x86 server version of Ubuntu 8.04, but the same steps should work without any problems for the Desktop version. Also notice that this whole procedure can easily take over six hours to complete, so don’t complain I didn’t …

Great news today (May 6, 2008). MySQL has confirmed that, contrary to previous leaked information, the online backup components will be open source. It means free, without exceptions, as announced. It couldn't be otherwise. On stage at JavaOne, both Jonathsn Schwartz and Rich Green stressed the importance of being open.
Politics aside, what is this online backup of which everyone has complained but few seem to have really tried?
In short, it's a feature that allows you to make a copy of the data from one or more database to a file.
The …

As reported yesterday from CommunityOne:

• MySQL Server is and will always remain fully functional and open source,
• so will the MySQL Connectors, and
• so will the main storage engines we ship.

In addition:

• MySQL 6.0’s pending backup functionality will be open source,
• the MyISAM driver for MySQL Backup will be open source, and
• the encryption and compression backup features will be open source,

where the last item is a change of direction from what we were considering before.

The change comes …

Close encounter of the sun Communities in San Francisco.

Josh Berkus and yours truly enjoyng the company friendly environment.

The main focus of version 0.2 was to improve handling of almost all of SQL. So now you can issue DESC TABLE tbl_name or RENAME TABLE tbl_name TO another_tbl_name on a partitioned table and you get correct results for SHOW TABLES etc.
Other statements are rejected and we settled down for the feature set we want to provide for full partition scans.
In addition to that there are some performance improvements.

See the full list of changes.

For the next release (0.3) we focus on the dictionary based partition lookup module and further performance improvements.

Finally, there is a new project home page: http://www.hscale.org.

In January, a developer chose to revoke the GNU GPL on his project. It generated quire a stir and even though growklaw seemed to be confident that such thing cannot happen, force is to note that the new GNU GPLv3 took care of adding the word irrevocable which was not in the GNU GPLv2.

In the same vein and commenting on dual-licensing is unfair and community debilitating, one of …