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 …

Just "released" the latest version of the Datagrid. Updates include:

• You can disable sorting for a given column or columns.
• Paging now has a "paging" CSS class (the next/prev links only). The bit that tells you how many rows there (x of y results) has the "paging_results" CSS class
• Order by links now preserve existing GET variables - thanks Tom
• Fixed hard coded perPage - thanks David
• Added NoSort() method which, unsurprisingly, disables sorting for a given column (or columns).

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Or, why the Inuits won't partner on selling Ice from Alfresco unless they change their strategy.

I usually agree with lot of the things Matt Asay writes but today in Closing an open-source deal trough your systems integrator , he thinks the way to work with partners in an opensource environment is to force them to sell the commercial solutions of your products.
He also thinks you should block them from starting an implementation before the end customer has signed a purchase order.

Whew.. this must be the most stupid idea he had since he started his opensource career. The sad part is that I haven't seen a commercially backer of an opensource project dealing correctly with …

A coworker found out how secure Amazon's MP3 store is.  Even big guys like Amazon make errors in their web site security.
So, I clicked purchase and the album immediately started downloading. It was at this point that I had the thought cross my mind: "Did I update my credit card info?"

Well, no, I didn't. Before the album finished downloading, I was trying to change the method of payment. Turns out, for a digital purchase, you can't do such a thing. So, I waited and wondered was was going to come of this...

UPDATE: There are some examples being added at the MySQL Forge now.

When I first started installing MySQL for myself, it was quite handy to have the example my.cnf files in the source package. I was a noob to the MySQL configuration. Even after I became more experienced, I would use them as a starting point. However, I now find that they are so behind the times they are not as useful. Here are some of the comments from the files.

my-small.cnf

# This is for a system with little memory (<= 64M) where MySQL is only used
# from time to time and it's important that the mysqld daemon
# doesn't use much resources.

my-medium.cnf

# This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
# an important part, or systems up to …

Just "released" the latest version of the Datagrid. Updates include:

• You can disable sorting for a given column or columns.
• Paging now has a "paging" CSS class (the next/prev links only). The bit that tells you how many rows there (x of y results) has the "paging_results" CSS class
• Order by links now preserve existing GET variables - thanks Tom
• Fixed hard coded perPage - thanks David
• Added NoSort() method which, unsurprisingly, disables sorting for a given column (or columns).

[Link]

After our MySQL Workbench 5.0 GA release and a hotfix release a week later it is time to start our efforts on the next releases. As many of you might already know, my team is highly distributed and when doing planning tasks it is always good to sit together in a single room. So we will be meeting in Kiev, Ukraine next week.We are going to discuss the progress we have already made on the Linux / OS X / Solaris ports but the main focus will be in the new features for the next main release.A big thank you to everybody who posted their ideas on the forum. If you have not posted yet you are welcome to do so. Everything that is submitted before next week will be considered.

The Sun faithful who attended the CommunityOne Conference this morning may not have noticed, but Sun and its MySQL executives were very clear about Sun's open-source strategy going forward, despite news reports that seem to have missed the nuances:

The core will always be 100 percent open source. The periphery...will not. Or might not. It depends.

In response to my first question of the CommunityOne panel Marten Mickos, Senior Vice President of Sun's Database Group, declared, "I just want to say that the core of MySQL will always be 100 percent free and open source." The crowd loved it. Ian Murdock said roughly the same thing: The core will be open....

The periphery? Marten indicated that this would be subject to a corporate calculus designed to determine how much peripheral, closed extensions the company can make to encourage …

UPDATE: There are some examples being added at the MySQL Forge now.

When I first started installing MySQL for myself, it was quite handy to have the example my.cnf files in the source package. I was a noob to the MySQL configuration. Even after I became more experienced, I would use them as a starting point. However, I now find that they are so behind the times they are not as useful. Here are some of the comments from the files.

my-small.cnf

# This is for a system with little memory (<= 64M) where MySQL is only used
# from time to time and it’s important that the mysqld daemon
# doesn’t use much resources.

my-medium.cnf

# This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
# an important part, or systems up to 128M …

Thanks to all the attendees to the session on creative programming with MySQL at CommunityOne.
As announced, the slides are online. 3.5M (PDF)
Enjoy!