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Spot the problem:
You work for company X.
Were you talking to Alice?
Will you be talking to Alice if you dial 555-5555?
As midterm reviews approach I've been working on cleaning up any
and all messy hacks so I can have a nice presentation. Last week
I started using the Makefile.am instead of bash scripts. This
week I tried cleaning it up further so that libmemcached is
compiled automatically as needed instead of as a pre-installed
dependency. Now any developer can download and compile my
modifications without having to jump through hoops.
I'm beginning to feel as though the build tools are more
difficult to edit than the code itself.
After numerous 'unable to find header' errors I think I have
finally fixed every INCLUDE declaration necessary. I think this
has put me a bit behind for the midterm review and caused a bit
of stress, but I think this will save me a great deal of time
overall.
Had my first segfault while working on the project last week, it
was a pain to track down without a debugger. The Eclipse debugger
doesn't play …
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Kaj Arnö, MySQL ambassador to Sun, has written a digest of his blogging production this year. It's an intriguing reading, because Kaj has been more on the road than at home this year, mostly performing the duties of communicator, explaining to Sun people what really is this MySQL that had just been acquired, and sharing his findings with fellow (ex) MySQL employees. Kaj's blogging sometimes has the role of breaking the news to the community. For example, he was the one who first wrote about the Sun acquisition of MySQL (published his post at 8:02 EST, barely one minute after … |
I had an update recently from ex-JBoss dude Shaun Connolly on what's going on at Ringside Networks. Ringside was founded by ex-Jboss, ex-BlueStone middleware business guru Bob Bickel. And if it's interesting enough to get him out of retirement, I figure it's worth paying attention to. The company is still in the early stages, about a dozen employees, mostly coding their brains out, on what they term a "social application server." The comparison of social networking applications with the early days of Java development is an apt one. It makes sense that there should be some kind of basic infrastructure... READ MORE
I'm pretty happy with my 1TB Apple Time Capsule. Bought it while
at the MySQL Conf in April, and it does the right thing for my
situation.
Con Zymaris and his crowd at Cybersource in Melbourne made
something like this ages ago, aimed at small businesses: Cybersource/DATASAFE. That's a pretty neat
solution, and an excellent example of how an OSS-based solution
can be deployed in a business, regardless of what other
technologies might already exist on the premises. The box will
work just fine in a Windows environment.
Always focus on the solution (and what practical needs it solves
for the client), not the technology (or the philosophy) - with a
happy customer, you'll get plenty of opportunity (over time) to
discuss what OSS is really about, and you're likely to find a
very willing ear at that point.
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Half a year has gone, most of it with my new company, Sun
Microsystems.Kaj has made a detailed digest of his first half.
I took the DBA approach and queried the Planet MySQL database. I
know that this qualifies as cheating, but I could not
resist.
I published a total of 111 blog posts since January, with peaks
in March and April (the users conference was coming).
I wrot about most everything, but some topics are prominent.
Users Conference and MySQL proxy …
Please join us at the North Texas MySQL Meetup if you are in the
Dallas area this coming Monday July 7th, at 7PM. This is our
first time at the Sun Office (Mansions 1 and 2 rooms of the Sun
Office, 16000 Dallas Parkway, Ste 700, Dallas, TX Dallas, TX
75248). We have been a good little group but now we need more
room to hold more bodies. And the location should be better for
those in Dallas.
There will be a short presentation on Getting Started with MySQL
and Studying for the Certified MySQL Associate Certification and
will be followed with a general 'round table' discussion.
Anyone interested in MySQL is welcome but please RSVP at
http://mysql.meetup.com/250/
And the next night is the DallasPHP.org meeting -- a great
resource for all levels of PHP coders. A blub from their website
The Dallas area has many highly experienced PHP developers,
and is adding new developers all the time. This July, the …
Why are the best technical books also the thinnest? To make the case, I highly recommend the MySQL 5.1 Cluster Certification Study Guide In rack units, it’s a 1U; it fits nicely into my laptop bag; and if you’re considering implementing MySQL Cluster, it can save you a world of time.
Of course, if you get the book, you should consider the certification itself. There’s a legitimate debate about the usefulness of certification exams, but the MySQL 5.1 Cluster certification is a little more important than others for a couple of reasons:
1. In case you haven’t heard it by now, Cluster isn’t always the best fit. In many cases, an active/passive failover setup is a much more flexible and cost-effective approach. It’s not always a clear-cut decision. If you’re willing to make application changes …
[Read more]I have been helping customer today to resolve his lockups in production by downgrading from MySQL 5.1.25 to 5.0 We have other customers (and our own projects as well) which run on MySQL 5.1 successfully but I can't it is on par with MySQL 5.0 stability yet.
This given customer was running MyISAM on FreeBSD with quite basic queries, so may be there are some issues with FreeBSD and MySQL 5.1 still ?
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