Percona is looking to hire someone to develop Maatkit, among other things.

If I weren’t having so much fun being the consulting team lead, I’d be doing it myself. (In fact, I’m still hacking on it a lot. Got some pretty fun stuff done this weekend.) I don’t know what the rest of the world thinks, but I think Maatkit is a damn enjoyable project to work on. Hopefully someone else will have the same kind of mindset and want to get paid for it, unlike poor working-on-the-weekends me.

I’m not stepping away from the project. It’s just grown a lot, and there is room and money to grow it much more. This is actually the best compliment to the project: that it is worth hiring someone to keep improving it. Lots of people are using it, and there’s a lot …

Looks like the newest release of Firefox 3 is setting new records for downloads. Clearly there was a lot of pent-up demand for a revision. In their first day as a GA release, Firefox had more than , breaking all records. The downloads have continued at a rapid clip, with over 14 million within 72 hours. That's a pretty impressive feat for a product with essentially zero marketing budget. Firefox 3 adds a raft of new features, including beefed up security, more efficient use of memory as well as many minor usability tweaks. InfoWorld's test center put it through its... READ MORE

If you're a Perl and/or Python expert (preferably both), Percona may have a job for you.

We're looking to either hire or sponsor significant development efforts for some open-source tools for MySQL, including but not limited to Maatkit and the Master-Master Replication Manager. This could be full-time or part-time, depending on the person and what seems to make the most sense. You can work remotely.

You must already be an expert coder. You don't have to be a MySQL expert, though it will help if you are at least at an intermediate level with it. You must have proven experience in test-driven development. You will be writing clean, efficient, well-tested code. Your work will be open-source and transparent to the world, and open-source experience is a plus. You can expect expert guidance and help …

One basic way of debugging the MySQL Cluster data nodes(ndbd) is with good old printf-style debugging. Ie. adding printouts of the variable you want to see, recompile, start the node(s) and run your tests. This is a bit tedious but very universal.

Support for printing is available using "ndbout", which has both C++ style and printf style. This functionality is implemented in storage/ndb/include/util/NdbOut.hpp

Here is an example from debugging BUG#37592, where I wanted to add printouts to "Dbtup::rebuild_page_free_list" to see how the pageId increases while the rebuild is running:

void
Dbtup::rebuild_page_free_list(Signal* signal)
{
  Ptr fragOpPtr;
  fragOpPtr.i = signal->theData[1];
  Uint32 pageId = signal->theData[2];
  Uint32 tail = signal->theData[3];
  ptrCheckGuard(fragOpPtr, …

Kaj's blog: http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/06/18/netbeans-as-ide-for-developing-mysql-itself/

Kaj's blog: http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/06/18/netbeans-as-ide-for-developing-mysql-itself/

The next release of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, will have ZFS enabled by default. There’s a good article for the masses, at ZDNet on ZFS on Snow Leopard - do read it.

We all know running any form of server using HFS+ tends to be a bit of a joke. So, Snow Leopard Server will be where ZFS makes its debut. It won’t be long before regular users will want it in their Mac Pro’s and so on…

OS X as a deployment platform for production MySQL servers? This is not far off, I’m sure.

Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.

Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:

Podcasts to come/Posted

• Jim Whitehurst -- President and CEO of Red Hat -- …

Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.

Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:

Podcasts to come/Posted

• Jim Whitehurst -- President and CEO of Red Hat -- …

Here are my slides used for presentation at Red Hat Summit in Boston last week:

Zmanda: Open Source Backup (.odp open office format, 1.7MB)