So, I wanted to get some feedback before I presented my sessions at the upcoming MySQL Conference (be there, it’ll be cool). I thought… hrrm.. distributed company… I can’t just ask a couple of people to listen to me in the conference room as we don’t really have one (apart from IRC).

So… I thought.. hrrm… didn’t i see something about screencasting on the program for linux.con f.au ? Well, the answer was yes - Screencasting HOWTO. Started watching - I then proceeded to try the list of screencasting software.

Istanbul didn’t work - I got images and audio, but only when there was a change to what was being displayed… so a static slide with me talking, didn’t …

MySQL Table Sync 0.9.2 is a bug-fix release. Since the last release users have reported several bugs. I am still postponing new features until after the MySQL Conference and Expo, because I am focusing on the innotop session I'll be presenting at the conference.

I have also created a new mailing list on sourceforge for discussing all things MySQL Toolkit.

Continuent bundles MySQL Enterprise with its high-availability offering. BakBone announces enterprise data protection for RHEL 5. OASIS approves WS-BPEL standard. (and more)

Continuent Extends High-Availability Offering, Bundles MySQL Enterprise, Continuent (Press Release)

BakBone Announces Enterprise Data Protection Solutions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, BakBone Software (Press Release)

Members Approve Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) as OASIS Standard, OASIS (Press Release)

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I spent some time with Chris Marino, CEO and Co-founder of SnapLogic, a sparkling new (pre-VC funding, I believe) entrant to the open source business ecosystem. The company is positioning itself between the EAI and ETL markets, and has an approach that could prove to be quite successful. As I've argued before, the Application Integration space is ripe for open source.

Here's the problem, schematically, that SnapLogic is trying to resolve:

And here's the problem, in prose:

First off, some context is needed. I asked Chris who his competitors are, and he noted a few of the big-name EAI vendors, including Tibco, Informatica, WebMethods, Vitria, IBM, etc. But the competition tends to have …

Wow. 160 people in del.icio.us have bookmarked my project.

I've been following with interest Charles Lee's post over at the TSS about "Hibernate - A MySQL Enabler?". MySQL has always been well-supported by Hibernate, so it's good to see yet another project find that the two together can be a powerful pair (and keep vendor lock-in at bay).

The key issue that Hyperic ran into is that MySQL doesn't have sequences, but instead has identity-like columns. It seems that many folks with legacy data models run into the same issue.

Maybe it was serendipity that Steve Ebersole and the Hibernate team have delivered SequenceStyleGenerators in Hibernate 3.2.3 (and with even a bit earlier delivery, maybe Hyperic wouldn't have had to roll their own implementation).

I went and took a look at …

I've been following with interest Charles Lee's post over at the TSS about "Hibernate - A MySQL Enabler?". MySQL has always been well-supported by Hibernate, so it's good to see yet another project find that the two together can be a powerful pair (and keep vendor lock-in at bay).

The key issue that Hyperic ran into is that MySQL doesn't have sequences, but instead has identity-like columns. It seems that many folks with legacy data models run into the same issue.

Maybe it was serendipity that Steve Ebersole and the Hibernate team have delivered SequenceStyleGenerators in Hibernate 3.2.3 (and with even a bit earlier delivery, maybe Hyperic wouldn't have had to roll their own implementation).

I went and took a look at …

I've been following with interest Charles Lee's post over at the TSS about "Hibernate - A MySQL Enabler?". MySQL has always been well-supported by Hibernate, so it's good to see yet another project find that the two together can be a powerful pair (and keep vendor lock-in at bay).

The key issue that Hyperic ran into is that MySQL doesn't have sequences, but instead has identity-like columns. It seems that many folks with legacy data models run into the same issue.

Maybe it was serendipity that Steve Ebersole and the Hibernate team have delivered SequenceStyleGenerators in Hibernate 3.2.3 (and with even a bit earlier delivery, maybe Hyperic wouldn't have had to roll their own implementation).

I went and took a look at …

With palm's recent announcement that it will have a Linux-based Treo by year end and all the hoopla around the upcoming apple OS X palmtop, this seems like a really good time to be in the FOSS world.

I haven't seen the specs of either OS yet, of course. But I can guess at the hardware that they will both debut on, and I'm fairly confident that both devices will be more powerful than the first Linux box I ever worked on. I'm hoping that the end result will be a full enough set of posix libraries to move the LAMP stack with little trouble. "Little trouble" being a relative term, of course.

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As I posted a while back, Phorum will be at the MySQL Conference. Its coming up soon and I wanted to let anyone that is going to be there know that our full team (of 3 people) will be there thanks to the donations of our users and a couple of our employers. If you see the big dog, that is us. Stop by and say Hi!