By Tim O'Reilly

I was looking the other day at our internal sales reports, and thought I'd offer a few random reflections based on our changing mix of bestsellers. This is anecdotal data, and for O'Reilly books only, not to be confused with my State of the Computer Book Market posts. (Mike Hendrickson and I are working on one of those as well.) Nor is this a complete list of our bestsellers. It's a list of books that say something to me about the changing mix of needs and interests among our customers.

Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition. Published just before the holidays, this book sold out of its 50,000 copy first printing in a matter of days. It's topped the …

For some reason, Germany and Open Source go very well together. That’s one of the reasons I moved to Germany a good year ago.

Now, I note a new Open Source marketing consultancy popping up in southern Germany. Not that such companies are very tied to geography. It’s Sandro Groganz, of Mindquarry and eZ Systems fame, who has set up shop.

Sandro will help companies and organisations, both in their capacities as creators, contributors, and investors. Read more about this on his well-organised blog. Good luck, Sandro!

There is a lot of information out there about how to setup circular replication but nothing about how to recover it when all else fails. This article will cover a quick and easy method I use. Depending on the size of your database and the interconnects between servers this method may not be suitable due to the need to copy all replicated databases from one good server to all other servers in the replication circle which requires a certain amount of down time respectively.

OK, so one server or more is showing Slave_IO_Running and/or Slave_SQL_Running as No and there is some error about a failed query when you run "show slave status;" and no amount of effort to fix it is working. First DO NOT PANIC. It is broken, OK, tell yourself that and realise that trying to fix something when you are in a panicked state is only liable to make the situation worse, hell I'd guarantee it, so …

How can software vendors engage with the open source community? An important step, according to Linus Torvalds, is to stop believing such a thing really exists and start engaging in the development process.

The Linux Foundation has kicked off its new Open Voices podcast series with an interview between executive director Jim Zemlin and its most famous employee: Linus Torvalds. The interview is available in MP3 and Ogg, as well as a transcript and provides some interesting insight into the Linux development process, Torvalds’ motivation, and the past and future of Linux (as well as …

I’ve just tried to run PHP with MySQL on my Leopard and the first problem: “Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/mysql/mysql.sock’”

I’ve just changed php.ini to:
mysql.default_socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
The same situation with mysqli settings - be default it is not set so you should update it to the real path.
And it works!

One of my first tasks in my new position as Senior Programmer at mybanker.dk is to evaluate and/or create a CMS framework for upcoming versions of the several websites that we present to the world.

After evaluating the first many available frameworks and CMS systems out there. this entry, found on Planet PHP somehow seems to strike a cord or two…

I was reading through Expert MySQL over Christmas, and I thought I'd write a patch to solve some of the connection pooling problems I've mentioned earlier.

It was surprisingly pretty straight forward. Let's hope someone can clean it up, and reset connection is implemented into MySQL 6.0.

MySQL AB today announced it will be presenting a free, one-day technical training class for senior Oracle database administrators (DBAs) in the U.S. Government and other organizations who are interested in expanding their professional skill-sets by learning advanced MySQL techniques.

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008
Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Breakfast and Lunch included)
Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Polaris Suite, Washington, DC
Registration: www.carahsoft.com/mysqldba

It's official. I'm moving from the Support team in MySQL to the training team on March 1st.