"That is an awfully nice bridge you got there, be a pity if
something happened to it..."
So Business as Usual means protection
money.
"This IP bridge enables Open Source developers to develop
software free from concerns about patents."
"Our IP bridge makes lawsuits unnecessary."
Both of those statements just give me a cold feeling. Its like
listening to some gangster video, where the local hood has
decided to make a business of asking for protection money from
the new immigrants who just opened a Kwiki Mart. Bill Hilf talks
about lawsuits being unnecessary, of course they are. The local
hood never wants their business practices scrutinized, they
operate in a cloak of uncertainty.
When did "Business as Usual" in engineering become haggling over
nickel and dime changes that came …
I've spent my spare time the last few weekends helping a
non-profit called Fast Forward here in the Columbia, SC area. I
don't post this here to blow my own horn but rather to point out
the need many non-profit organizations have for quality IT
support. Most non-profits operate on a limited budget meaning
they take help where they can get it. Often times there just
isn't money left in the budget for a services contract, etc.,
even for an organization like Fast Forward.
This is where knowledgeable folks can really make a difference. I
know the usual excuse: after spending all week looking at a
computer screen, the last thing anyone wants to do is spend the
weekend working on computers. I've been there, so I understand
that feeling completely. However, I have to say that the time
I've spent working at Fast Forward has been personally rewarding.
There's a sense of accomplishment …
The MySQL community is just great. I’ve been suggesting that we get recordings for the Conference & Expo, alas, its generally not in the roadmap. I mean, look at Apple and their WWDC - all attendees get amazing video recordings that switch between slides and the speaker. Last year, they even delivered it via iTunes! In previous years, they distributed DVDs (valuable, though with WWDC a lot is generally new technology announcements, and I can hardly want to reference what was cool for Panther or Tiger any longer…) Mad props also to the linux.conf.au 2007 team, who also did amazing recordings - sessions were available by the evening they were given!
The MySQL conference is a lot different. There are lots of reusable sessions. Some that you attend, you’ll get knowledge committed for life. The tendency to not see too many roadmap talks makes it very useful for future reference.
Back to why the community rocks. …
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Microsoft Continues to Expand Interoperability Options for Office Customers, Micrososft (Press Release)
The Apache Software Foundation Announces the Release of Apache Axis2/C v.1.0, Apache Software Foundation (Press Release)
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Silly shit you discover when implementing a mysql server!
- The 5.0 MySQL CLI client autostrips comments (badly) from SQL
before sending it to the server. I don't really get why yet.
DBD::mysql doesn't.
- Even if you say "quit" to exit the CLI client, it doesn't send
a COM_QUIT command to the server. DBD::mysql does.
Code release in a few days? Possible. Lua interface is still more
pseudo than code still.
MySQL’s version-specific conditional comment syntax confused me for the longest time. Then I learned about printf formatting rules, and it all became clear. Read on if you don’t already know what I mean. First I’ll explain what I’m talking about. MySQL allows specially formatted comments with a server version number embedded in them. Servers newer than the version number will execute the commented-out code, and older servers won’t. This is really useful sometimes.
Need I say more? Go download the slides, video and audio from the 2007 MySQL Users Conference & Expo. I have no plans to take anything down, so please download wisely, and take only what you need. If there’s demand, I can make higher-quality versions available. I can also burn DVD’s of the content if that’s desired.
Enjoy!
There is a popular myth about the SQL GROUP BY
clause. The myth holds that 'standard SQL' requires columns
referenced in the SELECT list of a query to also
appear in the GROUP BY clause, unless these columns
appear exclusively in an aggregated expression. MySQL is often accused
of violating this standard.
In this article I will attempt to debunk this myth, and to
provide a more balanced view regarding MySQL's treatment of
GROUP BY at the same time.
To do that, I will first demonstrate that MySQL can be instructed
to only accept GROUP BY clauses that include all
non-aggregated expressions referred to in the SELECT
list, thus making MySQL's behaviour conform more to that of other
well-known rdbms-products.
Second, I will show that it is very important to clearly define
which …
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Thinking further about Microsoft's FUD campaign to threaten patent lawsuits against customers for using Linux, I was wondering if this isn't really a result of a bigger issue facing the company: Google Envy. As I mentioned previously, Microsoft is competing on several fronts. And while they hate like hell to give up market share to open source that would threaten their cash cow Windows or Office business, the bigger issue for the company is that their core businesses are being disrupted. And Microsoft is in last place when it comes to new online businesses like hosted applications, online search, email, blogging, videos, and music. (Ok, to be fair, Microsoft has come from behind in the past in other markets like gaming and accounting software.) As is the case in many mature markets, their core …
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