At Red Hat's conference last week, I spotted a guy using a tiny keyboard equipped PDA that I didn't recognize.  It turns out it was the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3200, which is not available officially in the US, but is popular in Japan. Still you can buy it through the web at Dynamism and other grey market importers.

The Zaurus has gone through several iterations and form factors over the years and was the first Linux handheld shipped way back when. It now has a 6gb hard drive, SD and CF slots and a decent VGA (640x480) screen.  It's compact enough to carry in a pocket or on a belt clip and weighs just over 10 onces (298 g). With the SD slot, you can add a wi-fi card and get internet connectivity.

I don't think there's a perfect device …

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MySQL Connector/Net 5.0.7 a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.

This is a bug fix release for the current production branch of Connector/Net.

Version 5.0.7 is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL-4.1, MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-6.0 Falcon "Preview".

It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/Net download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.0.html and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

Bugs fixed

• Bug #27269 MySqlConnection.Clone does not mimic SqlConnection.Clone behavior
• Bug #27289 Transaction is not …

Mehlam Shakir, CTO of RippleTech, discusses a practical approach for auditing MySQL databases to meet security and compliance regulations. Hear real-world cases and see a live demonstration of how RippleTech’s Informant solution compliments MySQL by adding a security layer without any performance impact.

For more information on RippleTech’s INFORMANT, visit http://www.rippletech.com/

I have to say, I was a bit worried this would be a typical vendor presentation where every other word is marketing speak for how great the product is. It actually just ended up being “here’s how Informant works, and here’s how auditing, security and compliance needs can be met,” presented in a way that’s useful and valuable to anyone who is interested in auditing or security.

Rippletech’s Informant is not only interesting because it’s currently the only software that …

This release of MySQL Table Sync adds the ability to sync only part of a table, adds minor new functionality, and fixes a bug that could crash the tool.

sorry for things being so boring around here. i?ve been grinding away at bugs at work. after gaining some ground on bugs in connector/odbc, i?m being reassigned to help out with some server bugs again, at least part-time.

fixing bugs in c/odbc is an adventure. the code base bears the scars of several different developers of varying levels of cleverness and somewhat conflicting coding styles. but now that the test suite is in shape, it is easier (and safer) to do some more mechanical transformations to undo some of the damage.

one problem with tackling bugs in an odbc driver is that a lot of the reports involve third-party applications like microsoft access or crystal reports, or development tools like delphi that we don?t have as much expertise in. the initial reports often don?t include all of …

Craig announced jMaki on Rails. Here I provide detailed steps to read data from a MySQL database and display it in a jMaki-wrapped Yahoo DataTable widget.

1. Download NetBeans 6.0 M9 (Full version) and configured to install only "Base IDE", "Java IDE", "Web and Java EE" and "Ruby" modules. A cutting-edge build can be obtained from the hudson build.
2. Download and install jMaki …

As always, the digital world is evolving. Quickly. Yet, the way we store our data was envisioned decades(!) ago. To accommodate today's needs, wild solutions are tacked onto old systems. This practice is commonly known as hacking. While these solutions work great for a number of people, they share a fundamental flaw: They are hacks who pervert the original idea of the system's design and implementation.

CouchDb is designed to fulfil data storage requirements in modern times. It doesn't come with legacy to support and without hacks to make it work on current and future systems. If you are looking for ways to save, see, secure and share your data as in The four pillars of data management, CouchDb supports all of them:

• Save - Robust, ACID compliant storage engine.
• See - View engine to efficiently filter, format and organize …

This post is slightly off-topic, but I thought I'd share some information.  I've been suffering from carpal tunnels syndrome recently, and it's only gotten worse.  Apparently I'm not the only bloggers to suffer from this. And what's apparently made it worse is in my Internet/e-mail/blogging addiction, I've queued up a bunch of posts to take place over the next couple of weeks while I'm traveling.  (I may also have aggravated this by trying to play a lot of rock guitar.  Recently when I'm completely ill-equipped to do so.)

At any rate, I'm trying not to type so much.  And some of you may have already guessed that this posting is being written using voice recognition software from Dragon systems.  (Naturally speaking, version …

As you probably know MySQL is Running AdSense Ads on PlanetMySQL.org for last few months. When the project was just started it was Ad free. I’m curious If MySQL Really ask syndicated Blog owners if they would allow that or if they just hope if someone does not like it he would speak up ?

I recently found an blog post on the same matter which make me to think on this once again.

So what is my take on this ? We currently run no Ads on MySQLPerformanceBlog and I would not like to see someone making money from something I have chosen to be free.

Would I like to be removed from PlanetMySQL aggregation ? No because many MySQL users are subscribed to PlanetMySQL rather than tens of individual MySQL blogs they would like to read, and I do not want to cut my RSS feed for the same reason.

I learned an extremely valuable lesson today on a client site. It’s important that users of MySQL read the right version of the manual for the product they are using. It’s very easy to just goto http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ which is what I type in directly and browser the manual. While the MySQL Manual has separate sections for 4.x, 5.0, 5.1 etc, the 5.0 Manual for example reflects the most current version of MySQL 5.0. You may not be running the most current version, infact most production systems rarely run the current version.

My specific case was with Connector/J (JDBC) Reference of 5.0.4. The manual pages reflects the new 5.0.5 or todays’ 5.0.6 release and a particular default is now a different value. With …