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Finally, it's here. We missed our October 31 deadline, but hopefully that won't matter when you see the contents of the release.

Short summary of changes in the 1.2 release.

You can download the new packages from the Sun Download Center.

Some caveats to be aware of :

• These packages will over-write Cool Stack 1.1 packages that you may already have installed. All packages continue to install in /opt/coolstack but some of the package names have been changed. Thus, pkgadd(1M) will not know that the new CSKapache2 package will install in /opt/coolstack/apache2 and over-write the contents from a previous Cool Stack 1.1 installation of CSKamp. So, please do save your current installation. A detailed …

People sometimes ask me if I still do a lot of development.

Well, Ohloh keeps track of that these days and it seems that between September and November 2007 I was the 7th most active contributor:

Ohloh tracks 90655 developers in 8985 projects including Firefox, Apache HTTP server, Subversion, MySQL, PHP, Open Office, the Linux kernel, Ubuntu and many more.  As such, I’m kinda proud of that 7th spot.

If version 3 of Pentaho Data Integration has any bugs left when it launches, it won’t be because I was having a vacation

Until next time,

Matt

Many times DBAs work with data sets that are not the most optimal (in their opinion), and I recently had the pleasure of working with a table that did not have a unique identifier. And I needed to get unique results from this table, as I would need to do this query in different forms in the future, without selecting records from the past.Caveat: I could not alter the table structure yet; I

Welcome to the 69th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. We start this edition with an item about getting started: K. Brian Kelley’s first installment of Becoming a DBA on Databases, Infrastructure, and Security. It purposes to answer the question, what does it take to become a DBA? “(The) definition of [...]

Finally, it's here. We missed our October 31 deadline, but hopefully that won't matter when you see the contents of the release.

Short summary of changes in the 1.2 release.

You can download the new packages from the Sun Download Center.

Some caveats to be aware of :

• These packages will over-write Cool Stack 1.1 packages that you may already have installed. All packages continue to install in /opt/coolstack but some of the package names have been changed. Thus, pkgadd(1M) will not know that the new CSKapache2 package will install in /opt/coolstack/apache2 and over-write the contents from a previous Cool Stack 1.1 installation of CSKamp. So, please do save your current installation. A detailed …

Finally, it's here. We missed our October 31 deadline, but hopefully that won't matter when you see the contents of the release.

Short summary of changes in the 1.2 release.

You can download the new packages from the Sun Download Center.

Some caveats to be aware of :

• These packages will over-write Cool Stack 1.1 packages that you may already have installed. All packages continue to install in /opt/coolstack but some of the package names have been changed. Thus, pkgadd(1M) will not know that the new CSKapache2 package will install in /opt/coolstack/apache2 and over-write the contents from a previous Cool Stack 1.1 installation of CSKamp. So, please do save your current installation. A detailed …

I've used Safari (the O'Reilly version) for a number of years now and it is a resource I often recommend to coworkers. Basically, it's an on-line library of technical books (since expanded to include video) from a group of publishers. O'Reilly, Microsoft Press, Cisco Press, Syngress, and many others have books and resources on-line at Safari. It came into being in 2001 but I remember a predecessor version back in the late 90s from Que Publishing/Macmillan Computer Publishing called Personal Bookshelf, which I also used. Back in those days I was in the Air Force and that provided some of the technical books I couldn't afford on an Air Force salary.

Subscribing to Safari gives one the ability to put a certain number of books onto a "bookshelf" and the books …

MySpace and Google partner on open social platform. Federal Open Source Alliance shares survey findings. South African software market boosted by open source mandates, says IT consulting firm. (and more)

MySpace and Google Join Forces to Launch Open Platform for Social Application Development, Google / MySpace (Press Release)

Federal Government Votes for Open Source, Federal Open Source Alliance (Press Release)

South Africa’s Open Source Software Market Builds on the Government’s Adoption of FOSS Policy, Frost & Sulivan (Press Release)

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Today I was developing one small merb application for one of our projects and needed to see ActiveRecord logging on console like I do in Rails. After a short research I’ve found out that merb_active_record plugin passes its MERB_LOGGER to AR by default so I decided to try to change merb log level and here they are - my pretty colored AR logs!

So, if you want to see ActiveRecord logs in your application in development mode, then you need to add one line to your conf/environments/development.rb file:

puts "Loaded DEVELOPMENT Environment..."

MERB_LOGGER.level = Merb::Logger::DEBUG

That’s it for now. Long live merb!