Some time ago, our GUI tools development team started a contest to shake out the bugs in the MySQL GUI applications, especially the MySQL Administrator and the MySQL Migration Toolkit.

The contest ran for about 3 months and resulted in more than 170 bug reports, of which the team fixed all the significant ones (over 120) by now. This is quite impressive, especially considering the relatively small size of the GUI development team. I am very happy to see that the quality of these tools has been improved, they are quite useful, especially for users not keen on using the command line.

The new MySQL Administrator 1.2.8 and MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.1.8 have now been declared production …

Some time ago, our GUI tools development team started a contest to shake out the bugs in the MySQL GUI applications, especially the MySQL Administrator and the MySQL Migration Toolkit.

The contest ran for about 3 months and resulted in more than 170 bug reports, of which the team fixed all the significant ones (over 120) by now. This is quite impressive, especially considering the relatively small size of the GUI development team. I am very happy to see that the quality of these tools has been improved, they are quite useful, especially for users not keen on using the command line.

The new MySQL Administrator 1.2.8 and MySQL Migration Toolkit 1.1.8 have now been declared production …

MySQL provides its replication for High Availability (HA) and for read Scale-out. Generally it is known that in a MySQL replication you can only replicate from one Master to many slaves. In this Whitepaper it is shown how a set-up can look like to replciate from two masters to one slave. Caution: Use these informations with care!!!

2007 is already looking like a great conference year. In the upcoming year, I've decided to diversify the conferences I attend in order to meet new people, address new communities and in general increase PHP's exposure in new places.

As always, the period before and after the holiday season is quiet, but towards the end of February things pick up rapidly. Here's what I've already got on my schedule:

AjaxWorld Conference & Expo - …

More Customer Momentum Around the Microsoft-Novell Agreement, Novell / Microsoft (Press Release)

JasperSoft announces reaches 5,000 customers as momentum for Open Source Business Intelligence Accelerates, JasperSoft (Press Release)

OpenMFG Follows ERP Upgrade with Open Source Report Writer, OpenMFG (Press Release)

ZRM for MySQL is Now Available for Ubuntu, Zmanda (Press Release)

Trolltech releases Qtopia 4.2.0, Trolltech (Press …

New MySQL Administrator and Migration Toolkit released - Find a bug and win an iPod!

I just received great news today. Eben Moglen has agreed to keynote the conference. He joins Matthew Szulik (CEO, Red Hat), Marc West (CIO, H&R Block), Marten Mickos (CEO, MySQL), and one other IT executive (that I can't name just yet) as our distinguished keynotes for the conference. If you haven't heard Eben speak, you're in for a treat. He is masterful, and will seriously challenge a lot of conventional thinking about what "open source" means, and how freedom contributes to capital.

This complements a speaking faculty that also includes senior IT executives from Activision, AIG, Bank of America, Davis Polk Wardwell LLP, US Department of Defense, E*Trade, H&R Block, and others, as well as senior executives from leading industry players like MySQL, Alfresco, SugarCRM, Oracle, Microsoft, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray & Cary, Intel, Olliance Group, Red Hat, Matrix Partners, Mayfield Fund, and a range of others.

This is, hands down, …

Now that the MySQL code base has been forked into Enterprise and Community editions, and things have had time to sort themselves out somewhat, it looks to be pretty much business as usual. The community is as lively as ever in the forums, code fixes are still being pushed to the community tree, etc. There are a few complainers but it seems that you can never please everyone and someone will always find something to beef about. I have been watching the BitKeeper sources, pulling and building nearly every day. Version 5.0 jumps two or sometimes three revisions at a time, I have the strong impression that the skipped numbers have to do with the Enterprise edition. I have not seen any Enterprise source, and I am curious as to when and where this will be available. I also see a lot of activity in 5.1 and some work on 4.1.

Those who need frequent and timely bug fixes basically have two options: subscribe to the Enterprise edition or learn to …

Time magazine has selected You as the person of the year. Not me, you!  You as in YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr, SecondLife, FaceBook, HotOrNot, Blogs, Mashups and everything else that symbolizes the democratization of a participative internet culture.  Congratulations to Time for recognizing how the internet and Web 2.0 are changing the world. More importantly, congratulations also to open source developers from MySQL and other projects around the world for enabling the infrastructure that makes this new generation of applications.  Every one of these applications mentioned in Time is powered by MySQL! 

I think we are seeing the very beginning of how Web 2.0 shapes everyone's …

I sometimes see advice to do SQL date operations with the + and - operators on platforms where they are overloaded for date types. I try to avoid that, because it can give unexpected results. I prefer to explicitly use the built-in date/time functions. I'll show you an example where the operators cause problems, but the functions do the right thing.