LAMP is a proven software stack for developing and implementing multi-tiered web applications. Linux - operating system Apache - web server MySQL - database server PHP - programming language for dynamic web pages The nice part of this stack is that it an extremely low cost solution for implementing web based solutions. This stack is also interchangeable. The operating

If you are at a party, barbecue, tail-gate or other social event the topic of middleware or middle-tier may come up. This article will teach you enough to join in or maybe more importantly to walk away.

There are a lot of different languages used to build web applications. The key point to remember is that all of them end up generating HTML code that is returned to a browser.

I?ve spent the last year and a half noticing the growth and popularity of open source solutions. Using open source to build multi-tiered web based solutions can greatly add to a company?s competitiveness and bottom line by greatly reducing costs and reduce the complexity of managing vendor relationships. I looked at a lot of open source products and companies and the one that stood out to

Skoll is a Community-Based Testing project out of the University of Maryland. Their first testing framework comes for MySQL. Watch Sandro Fouché, graduate researcher on this project, take you through what Skoll is, how it’s beneficial, and how you can use it with an actual demo. The Skoll testing client for MySQL can be downloaded here:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/skoll/contribute/

The video can be played or downloaded using the “play” or “download” link from the original article at http://www.technocation.org.

Since I know a lot of MySQLers use Perl, I wanted to pass this along. Today was the first I’d heard of this survey, so I’m thinking that there are a lot of other folks who use Perl occasionally as I do (or even regularly) that are in the dark. Apparently it began in late July, and announced at OSCON 2007, so I apologize if you’ve heard about it over and over.

Take the survey now, as you only have until September 30th to do so!

http://perlsurvey.org/

At the MySQL Developers Meeting in Heidelberg there were show off sessions where each team had a chance of showing their best to others.
As part of this shut out presentation, I demonstrated some MySQL Proxy magic.

This is a sample session from that presentation.

mysql> select 1 + 1;
+-------------------------------+
| ERROR                         |
+-------------------------------+
| Don't understand these digits |
+-------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

# Hmmm!
# Let's try to make it understand ...

mysql> set sql_mode='english_digits'; # You did not know we could do that. Did you?
Query OK, 42 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> select 1 + 1;
+--------+
| result |
+--------+
| two    |
+--------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec) …