I traveled with Kaj from Paris to Milan, and we went directly to
the Sun offices, where we were received with great friendship and
keen interest.
Franco Roman, Director of Marketing, explained to us how Sun
invests on community activities, from big customers to
university, to open source events.
Then we were joined by the directors of the other departments,
who engaged us in lively exchanges of ideas, where we saw that
our community models are different but easily complement each
other.
There is much to do, but with such is the enthusiasm that is
shown towards MySQL that I have little doubt we will
succeed.
In the afternoon there was the meetup itself. Unlike Paris, it
was held in a conference room, with a wide screen, microphones,
video cameras (it will be published online. Stay tuned). Again,
the participation from Sun employees and managers was really
notable.
Kaj delivered his speech in Italian. The day before …
The Paris meetup was a very charming event. As announced, it was
held in a pub, where beer was the first priority, and the
audience of our (short) speeches were holding glasses and looking
relaxed.
The ensuing conversations were definitely friendly and inspiring.
We met mostly MySQL community, but also Sun employees and Java
developers in search of cross links. Every exchange was lively,
some with a touchy angle. The technical questions led to wine
choices philosophy, university projects, security policies, and
again to the pro and con of living in Paris as an expat. We had a
merry time indeed.
Thanks to Michael, Max, Serge, and especially to Veronique, for
organizing on such a short notice.
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Read this comment:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2001/9/18/74
The funny? Tonight I got an incoming bug fix from a user who had
caught that libmemcached had the old code in it, which of
course... I had copied out of the header code in the Linux
kernel.
Even funnier?
Go look in my_global.h in the MySQL include/ directory.
Guess what?
Same bloody mistake!
Copy and Paste bugs.... got to love them!
(FWIW, I checked, neither Postgres or Apache have the hack, so
they are free of this). The post I reference from lkml is quite
old... I should read up on this and see what the history of this
is. There is probably more here then meets the eye.
Too funny.
I was complaining in an earlier post that I have problems with linux
style installation.
I found a company that can help me solve that!
BitRock
makes open source software easier to use by providing a complete
automated solution for Open Source Application Deployment.
Its quite cool and they have a LAMP stack installer here.
Now I am suggesting that someone at Erlang does it too. They have
a Lyme stack which is Linux + Yaws + Mnesia + Erlang. (a …
Finally!
Buildbot
access for libmemcached:
http://build.tangent.org:8010/
This has taken way too much time. I have been dinking with it
every so often to see if I can get it to work but have made
almost no traction on it.
No luck, until now!
What does this mean? It means I can now get regression tests from
different platforms on each push. AKA less broken pushes, more
testing (for those in the internal MySQL world, think "open
source poll based pushbuild").
I've got some hardware to run this, but I could use more slaves
to do testing. Leave me a message or drop me a piece of email if
you want to add a host for testing. I lack specifically Windows,
FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Solaris (any …
I like this item on the MySQL Conference program: Falcon for InnoDB Users. What I find of
specific interest is the abstract:Falcon is MySQL?s new
transactional storage engine, currently in beta. Falcon, however,
is not InnoDB and was not designed as a drop in
replacement.
The talk will discuss the architectural and philosophical
differences between Falcon and InnoDB; some of the operational
differences, where users can expect to see significant
performance differences; and the problems that may be encountered
when switching between InnoDB and Falcon.That's the plain truth,
and it's very significant. Falcon is indeed not a [drop-in]
replacement for InnoDB. Earlier on it was kind-of presented that
way by MySQL Marketing, basically responding to the Oracle
acquisition of InnoDB. Strategically, yes Falcon is fully owned
by MySQL, so that was …
Performance tuning is one of the top disciplines (if not THE top discipline) that database professionals want to excel at. Being able to take a system that's running sluggish and turn it into one that's running as fast as a scalded dog is a talent that's part art and part science, but whatever the combination necessary to make it happen, there will always be strong demand for folks who are good at it.
Speaks for itself... (thanks Stephen Thorne for spotting this
item)