Ideas, releases, practical guides, and perspectives from the people building with MySQL.
After all the fuss it appears that MySQL will be remaining open source after all. As Kaj Arno and Monty Widenius report, Marten Mickos announced at CommunityOne that the MySQL Server will stay open source, as well as the forthcoming encryption and compression backup features, which MySQL had considered making available only to paying customers.
“The change comes from MySQL now being part of Sun Microsystems. Our initial plans …
[Read more]I briefly mentioned in my earlier post that OpenSolaris binary is probably just a chapter of a book. To really understand how the benefits of OpenSolaris lets look at the needs of a typical Software Application
A Software Application at a very base level of being a usage product needs the following:
So how does OpenSolaris solve this problems?
Lets start with (1). For the first time that I am aware, …
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I was yesterday attending the "Open Tuesday" Sun & MySQL event.
One of the first questions I got from the audience during my
questions & answer session was what is my take of the recent
MySQL proposition of having closed source parts/modules in the
server.
I was very happy to be able to say that Mårten some hours earlier
had announced on CommuntyOne that the MySQL server is and is always
going to be open source.
It looks like the community is also quite happy about the
outcome, as can be seen on the responses from Slashdot when this was announced.
Mårten did also say on the CommunityOne panel that, that we
should "expect Sun/MySQL to continue experimenting with the
business model, and with what’s offered for the community and …
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 …
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Tomorrow I will be attending the Solaris 10 User Group Part X at the offices of
Sun Microsystems,
101 Park Ave., New York, NY. This is an all day event and there
is even a MySQL talk by Philip Antoniades. Other presenters
include Ambreesh Khanna, Isaac Rozenfeld, Neal Weiss, Sunay
Tripathi, Amjad Khan, Damien Farnham and Dave Teszler.
Unfortunately, the event registration is now closed, but if
you're attending I look forward to meeting you.
Over the weekend I took some notes from a presentation and did some research from various sources. The result was a blog post about Internet trends that I posted on my personal blog. There are some very interesting statistics about Internet usage and social networking. Also, Facebook fans will find some interesting facts as well.
Black Duck acquires Koders. Univa UD obtains new round of funding. Sun and others announce quarterly results. (and more)
Black Duck Software Acquires Software Code Search Leader Koders, Black Duck Software (Press Release)
Univa UD Receives Series B Financing, Univa UD (Press Release)
Sun Microsystems Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)
IONA Reports First Quarter 2008 Results, IONA Technologies (Press Release)
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It's exciting to see how many technologies Sun is working
on.
On May 1, I took a few members of our operations and database
team to meet with Vasu Prakash who is an Engagement Architect
with Global Systems Engineering division of Sun Microsystems.
Vasu generously let us pick his brain regarding a wide range of
exciting technologies Sun is working on and to see how they may
potentially address our needs and challenges.
The following notes are my personal notes expanded with some
articles from my bookmark collection.
Thumper
- Thumper (X4500) offers 48TB (SATA HDD) in a 4U at
around $1.30/GB, runs Solaris OS and ZFS and supports RAID 0, 1,
0+1, 5, 6 enabled by RAID-Z and Raid Z2. X4500 supports 16GB RAM
and needs 200-220 V AC for power. For non-Solaris users, other
operating systems are supported as well.
- We initially …
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 …
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