So, OSDC 2007 (Open Source Developers Conference), held in
Melbourne in previous years, will visit glorious sunny Brisbane
this year (end November, early December).
My thanks to Anthony Towns, Andrae Muys and James Iseppi for
helping me with the legwork and homework to put together our
submission, and to the OSDC committee for giving us this
opportunity - it'll be good.
More news (including the exact dates and venue) soon, Andrae is
already preparing the Call for Papers.
If you are interested in helping and haven't written to me
before, now is a good time.
Likewise, if you would like to sponsor this event, getting in
early could get you an honourable mention even as early as the
call for papers... that would get you nearly 10 months worth of
exposure and good karma!
We actually received quite a few expressions of interest for
sponsoring already; we'll be attaching sponsorships to specific …
Pentaho, one of our partners in open source Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence will be presenting several sessions at the upcoming MySQL Conference April 23-26 in Santa Clara. Conference Early Registration ends March 14, so why wait?
Pentaho has also announced the General Availability of Pentaho Data Integration version 2.4 with open source ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) capabilities.
- Pentaho: …
We were having issues with mysql threads where they would be in sleep mode and wouldn’t die off for long time. At the same time we started having issues with our servers where the load will spike and eventually server will come to halt unless we killed all the apache processes and restarted apache [...]
MySQL AB today announced the formation of a new Telecom sales and business unit to meet the growing demand for its high-availability real-time database solutions in the converging telecom industry. The company also announced the availability of a new version of its MySQL Cluster product, especially designed and certified for use in carrier grade telecom environments, such as such as network subscriber databases (HLR, HSS) and Service Delivery Platforms (SDP).
About half a year have passed since me and Vadim have left MySQL to do MySQL Consulting on our own. Bunch of people have been wondering about our experiences so I thought it would be worth to share it here.
Feels Good. I always liked to be my own boss and funny enough I always was very independent in my professional life. In SpyLOG I was second person in the company and completely managed technical department, later in MySQL I still kept a lot of independence with my boss Tom Basil supporting my creativity rather than forcing me to do stuff. This started to gradually change in Corporate MySQL thought. Now I'm finally my own boss without limits. I can do what makes sense for me both in technical and business areas. It feels great.
Feels Scary Sometimes it felt a bit …
[Read more]The February Boston MySQL User Group meeting was great! I spoke about MySQL security; you can now download the slides and the video. I continue to be impressed with the sound quality of the video camera I have, I was pretty good about repeating the question folks asked, but you can clearly hear it in the audio (well, I could when I was wearing headphones, but I also have pretty bad hearing).
Special thanks to http://technocation.org for hosting the bandwidth for the videos.
Topics covered in the talk:
ACLs
Test dbs & anonymous accounts
OS files and permissions
Application data flow
SQL Injection
XSS (Cross-site scripting)
PDF of slides (1.4M):
http://www.sheeri.com/presentations/MySQLSecurity2007_02_08.pdf
…
[Read more]I’m happy to now announce the full Quality Contribution program tentatively described in December.
Some basics: We understand that the main reason users report bugs is to get them fixed. That said, we still think we have plenty of opportunities of improving our ways when it comes to making it easier for you to help us.
The Quality Contribution Program goal is to improve the quality of MySQL products, with the active co-operation of the MySQL user community. The program facilitates this by
- visibly acknowledging the participants by attributing individual quality enhancements to them;
- rewarding the participants with benefits in proportion to their contribution (Awards are subscriptions to MySQL Enterprise); …
So I am not much of a C hacker .. I never really got into pointers and stuff like that. PHP is so nice and easy. However I still want to give back to C based OSS projects I care about. A while ago I setup a wiki to track todo items for up coming PHP releases and other release related information. The page sees varying activity, but I think its helped Ilia a little bit for his 5.x releases. Its not that relevant for Derick's work on the 4.4.x branch, as that one is about bug fixing and not feature additions. Where I am really hoping it will make a big impact is with PHP 6. I am hoping that the list of todo items will assist in making sure that the next major version of PHP is all around …
[Read more]I just posted part three of the Falcon article series that’s currently running on the MySQL Dev/Community zone. If you wondered about table support in Falcon, or how the new engine’s indexes differ from traditional B-Tree and Clustered indexes, or how to backup and migrate to Falcon, check out the article as it should have the answers you need. Part one and two of the articles are also available if you haven’t read them yet.
Regarding Falcon releases, we’ll be putting out a new Alpha releases each month on the march to the first Beta, which we’re targeting for late Q2 this year. Quite a number of …
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