OpenOffice.org has announced that the project will be moving from its current LGPLv2 licensing to the LGPLv3 with a coming version 3.0 of the open source office software suite. Sun’s Simon Phipps says the move will give OpenOffice developers greater protection from software patent enforcement and threats because the LGPLv3 allows creation of mutual patent grants between developers. Also among the biggest changes is a move from the Joint Copyright Assignment (JCA) to the Sun Contributor Agreement (SCA), effective immediately. OpenOffice.org Community Manager Louis Suarez-Potts says this change, plus an addendum specifically for OO.o core and plugin developers, enabling OO.o to more easily host the source code of extensions (without shared copyright), promoting potential …

A lot of people contact me asking if I’m looking for a job. (I have an unanswered email in my inbox right now.) People are looking desperately for qualified, knowledgeable MySQL professionals. There’s a critical shortage of people who can admin MySQL moderately well, much less at the guru level.

If you are one of the many who are trying to hire a MySQL DBA, you should send your employees to the MySQL Conference and Expo. Not just this year — every year. Train a smart person instead of trying to hire someone who’s ready to go now.

This is the unfortunate reality: MySQL’s popularity has caused demand to far exceed supply. That’s what happens when a great disruptive innovation takes hold.

What do you do in the meantime?

If you just need a little help, hire a part-time DBA and get some consulting help. Without endorsing them directly, may I suggest …

Andrew Aksenoff is pretty slow with release numbers for Sphinx. By MySQL Users Conference 2007 Sphinx version 0.9.7 was released and today we had just 0.9.8-rc1 announced This minor change in version number corresponds to about double source size (looking at download size) and major rewrite for many portions. Sphinx 0.9.8 snapshots were more stable than 0.9.7 for a long time but I guess Andrew did not call them releases because documentation was incomplete and this just was fixed now.

Hopefully Andrew gets 0.9.8 release out for MySQL Users Conference.

BTW Andrew will be speaking at MySQL Users Conference so if you wanted to learn more about Sphinx it is great place to come.
Also he will stay in Bay Area for a few more days so if you're implementing Sphinx and would like some first hand help or advice this would be great opportunity.

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It looks like my tutorial is almost sold out (and so are several of the others already!)

So if you're planning to go to the MySQL conference, don't delay - go sign up!

Unimpressed by the ongoing PDO 2 debate, we have continued working on PDO/mysqlnd for MySQL. It turned out that the current status of PDO makes developing and testing a new driver a challenge. I spent quite a lot of time comparing the different behaviours of the various drivers in the hope I could find out how PDO drivers are supposed to work. The PDO documentation and the specification do not cover each and every detail. PDO really needs some love…

Why do people suggest to improve PDO before kicking-off a PDO 2 project?

The challenge of the day was to find out what PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE is about. All what the first page of the PDO manual tells you is, that is is a predefined (class) constant of the type INT. But luckily, there is more to learn about it on the manual page of …

Unimpressed by the ongoing PDO 2 debate, we have continued working on PDO/mysqlnd for MySQL. It turned out that the current status of PDO makes developing and testing a new driver a challenge. I spent quite a lot of time comparing the different behaviours of the various drivers in the hope I could find out how PDO drivers are supposed to work. The PDO documentation and the specification do not cover each and every detail. PDO really needs some love…

Why do people suggest to improve PDO before kicking-off a PDO 2 project?

The challenge of the day was to find out what PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE is about. All what the first page of the PDO manual tells you is, that is is a predefined (class) constant of the type INT. But luckily, there is more to learn about it on the manual page of …

Unimpressed by the ongoing PDO 2 debate, we have continued working on PDO/mysqlnd for MySQL. It turned out that the current status of PDO makes developing and testing a new driver a challenge. I spent quite a lot of time comparing the different behaviours of the various drivers in the hope I could find out how PDO drivers are supposed to work. The PDO documentation and the specification do not cover each and every detail. PDO really needs some love…

Why do people suggest to improve PDO before kicking-off a PDO 2 project?

The challenge of the day was to find out what PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE is about. All what the first page of the PDO manual tells you is, that is is a predefined (class) constant of the type INT. But luckily, there is more to learn about it on the manual page of …

If you’re verifying successful backups by using the last line of a mysqldump sql file that says “dump completed” - be aware that prior to version 5.0.27 mysqldump does not output that line. Confusion could ensue!

Although early registration for the MySQL Conference and Expo ended last week, there are still a number of discounts available (some even more than the $200 discount that early registration offered), and there is a very good reason for registering for the conference as soon as possible: tutorials are selling out fast. Really fast.

It should come as no surprise that with the Sun acquisition the registration numbers for this year's conference are through the roof. As anyone who's been to the Santa Clara Convention Center can attest, the ballrooms aren't meant to hold 500 people each. In fact, the maximum human …

When
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Where
BizTech
515 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville , AL 35816

Details
Brian Moon of dealnews.com will be discussing best practices for writing database backed web based applications. Many users teach themselves SQL and programming on the web. Other developers may have experience in enterprise desktop applications. No matter what your background, there are common mistakes made when deploying web based applications that use a database.

Also, at this event, we will be giving away two copies of NuSphere’s PhpED. Plus, everyone who attends can purchase any NuSphere product at 50% off.

Lunch will be served at this event.

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