The Pune Linux Users Group had organized a Mash (http://plug.org.in/mashup/) on October 13th and 14th ‘07.

Yet again, Zmanda asserted its support to the open source community by being an active participant at the Mash. Zmanda was conspicuous, by participating in all the events at the Mash

We had put forth two project ideas for the Mash. One was to find the most popular video/news viewed in India at any given time. And the other was to develop a Mobile-Mobile Chat Application.

The attendees were interested in both the project ideas.

Day 1 ? October 13th

At the Coding Session, Nikhil Bandiwadekar and Sachin Kale made significant progress in finding the most popular finance news viewed at any time. They used Yahoo Pipes for this purpose.

One of the attendees suggested the use of OpenMoko ( …

Tonight's reading material?

O'Reilly's "High Performance Web Sites Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers".

So what did I think?

I liked it.

First the background for the book. It is not yet another book on Apache, MySQL, or any particular scripting language. It is a front end designer's book.

A front end designer's book that does not explain HTML 101 (again). Instead the book went into how the delivery of content to a user's browser shapes the user's experience.

What I liked about the book was that the material was original. All of the information, except one bit about keeping JS scripts to …

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the genius made a quick verdict of fried logic board for the mac mini. when he looked up the price to repair it, it came up as $612. which is just barely less than a new mac mini would be. now it is up to my boss (or his boss, or his boss, or his boss, or maybe someone else) to decide if replacing the computer is an acceptable expense.

after giving me the bad news on the computer, the genius hooked up the monitor that i thought had a …

I’m not a big fan of the polls, but I do think this one’s fairly significant: What is your primary programming language for developing MySQL applications?

Why? Because this means we know what connectors to give more love to. What kind of articles to write for the DevZone. While we might think Ruby is the next big thing since sliced bread, you folk might tell us that Delphi is probably larger than Ruby and we should be applying appropriate love there (I’m sure this statement is untrue, but for arguments sake, mmmkay?).

To vote, you actually have to click the Community link, to get to the DevZone, scroll down a bit, and get to the MySQL Quickpoll. Why can’t I link directly to the quickpoll? Why can’t you vote on the results page? That is left as an exercise to …

MySQL data load and search are very important business requirements in any Windows or Internet web application development. In general, any application needs to show a result set of data and/or a single record to the end-users. In Windows applications it is very popular to show a result set of data by using the DataGridView, ListView or TreeView controls. A single record can be shown by the simple combination of the following controls: TextBox, ComboBox, ListBox, CheckBox, RadioButton, etc. MySQL data search is provided by using the required ADO.NET data objects and by refreshing the controls if necessary. These two processes, data load and search, should be fast and should be done with the proper code which depends on the controls in the Windows Form or Web Page. In this article I will show you how load and sort MySQL data using the DataGridView control. To search MySQL data the LIKE SQL operator will be used. Both programming implementations are …

The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) has released its second major research study focusing on open source adoption trends, "Open Source in the Enterprise: New Software Disrupts the Technology Stack." Conducted for the IOUG by Unisphere Research and sponsored by MySQL AB, the study builds on a similar report issued in mid-2006 covering open source adoption trends in the enterprise stack. The findings point to ongoing interest in open source software solutions for operating systems, databases and middleware with most organizations reporting that they intend to increase their use of open source in general over the coming year. However, open source applications remain less widely adopted.

The full report is available from the IOUG here.

We held our one day MySQL User Conference in the UK this week to a good crowd of nearly 200 people.  We've also got our events lined up Munich tomorrow and in Paris next week. Overall feedback has been very positive and we've maxed out registrations in Paris.  However, there's still some space available in Munich.

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