Just received this note from from Yann Larrivée:

PHP Québec is pleased to announce the 2007 PHP Québec conference. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on March 14-15-16th 2007. We are looking for the best speakers willing to share their experience and skills with professional PHP developers from eastern Canada and the United States.

This year, the conference will feature 3 distinct tracks:

• Advanced Techniques: Providing in-depth details of PHP techniques
  
• Data Availability: Databases, XML, Web Services, VOIP, TOIP, WAP, etc
  
• PHP Beyond theory: Real solutions for real problems related to software development and project management

For more information, please visit the conference website..

The next version of CouchDbX comes with nice buttons and a cute interface. Enjoy the tease!

Some people who know I've used Gentoo asked me my thoughts on using it for MySQL servers. Here are my opinions and experiences using Gentoo, both for desktop systems and for servers.

Zmanda recovery manager for MySQL 1.1.2 is available from Zmanda downloads page. This release has been tested on Debian distribution and on MySQL server 4.0.24.

I want to acknowledge Thorsten Schifferdecker’s contribution to this release. He helped us by creating debian packages for earlier releases and provided good feedback on the product.

Lots of bugs have been fixed and this release has underwent more testing with different MySQL configurations.

Take a look at ZRM for MySQL wiki for changes, documentation, try it in your MySQL configuration and feel free to provide feedback on forums.

Today Pentaho released the first milestone of “Pentaho metadata” as a new core utility to make the life of BI professionals yet a little bit easier.

As you can see in the screenshot of the Pentaho metadata editor above, we offer a solution that bridges the gap between the worlds of the relational databases and business information. Here are a few of the key points that differentiate Pentaho metadata from the competition:

• Completely open
  • Released under an open source license (Mozilla Public License v1.0)
  • Persisting in the Common Warehouse Metamode, a recognised industry standard, potentially allowing for easier interoperability with 3rd party tools
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I needed SSL connection feature for secure offsite replication. The prebuilt binaries do not include the SSL option, so I had to build MySQL from source with the SSL option....

The next Belgian MySQL User Group is coming! On 29th of November, around 19:00, we will gather in Gent

Seems like a big crowd is already planning to go there ..!

I needed SSL connection feature for secure offsite replication. The prebuilt binaries do not include the SSL option, so I had to build MySQL from source with the SSL option....

Forrester Research has discovered the obvious: open source databases are much cheaper than proprietary databases:

Noel Yuhanna, a senior analyst at Forrester covering database management systems, estimated that average savings on the total cost of ownership are about 50 per cent. The data is based on surveys and customer interviews.

Open source databases such as Enterprise DB, Ingres and MySQL do not carry licence fees, and management tools tend to be less expensive than for proprietary databases from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.

Open source offerings especially outshine their proprietary competitors in low-end applications with databases of less than 200GB in size.

"Eighty per cent of the applications typically use only 30 per cent of the features found in commercial databases," Yuhanna told vnunet.com. "The …