Vote for your favorite MySQL Community(TM) logo! Add comments on existing logos! Even mock up
http://mysqlcamp.pbwiki.com/LogoVoting
Seriously, though — think of how a new logo will reflect the Community, and how we all want to be perceived. Also consider what makes a nice favicon.ico …..
So vote on something that really matters to you, and make your voice heard. It does not cost anything and takes just a few seconds.
I would have liked to have done this on MySQLForge but, as
you know, this is not yet possible. However, if MySQL were to
provide even part of their, obviously, excellent development
management system for external projects I would be one of the
first on board.
In the meantime, PrimeBase XT source code and development will be
managed on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pbxt.
For new projects it really makes sense to use Subversion instead
of CVS, so to get the latest version of the source code you enter
the following:
svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pbxt/trunk/pbxt
pbxt
If you are a Mac OS X user, or your UNIX distribution does not
include the Subversion client, you can download it from …
$ svn ci Connection closed by $MAGIC_IP_ADDR svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Connection closed unexpectedly svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file: svn: '/full/path/to/parent/directory/where/no/changed/files/svn-commit.tmp' $ svn ci Log message unchanged or not specified a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit a
could have at least saved the commit message somewhere useful. like, say, somewhere so when i type “svn ci” again it reads the commit message.
grrr
During my recent vacation I worked on this blog entry which talks
about connection pooling in PHP and some of the recent
interesting results IBM published in a recent Zend
Developer Zone article. I just saw Christopher Jones?
blog entry on a new feature coming in Oracle 11g
so I?ve slightly adjusted it to include the news.
As is apparent from the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook and other large
Web 2.0 companies who have billions of page views per month, PHP
can indeed be deployed in a way which scales extremely well.
Naturally with any technology that has to scale to huge volumes
of traffic using large clusters of servers, there are always
scalability issues that need resolving. Common issues that IT
personnel deal with are monitoring and management of their
clusters, application deployment, …
You know ThinkGeek. Cool (geeky) stuff, and I know they're
very nice people too.
Right now they're also in need of a senior programmer... strong
Linux, SQL, Perl and web skills. You have to be willing to move
to Fairfax, Virginia. For more details, see http://www.thinkgeek.com/jobs
The above URL also has a link for applying - if I know you and
you would like a personal intro to the folks at ThinkGeek, toss
me an email!
Expect the unexpected! There is a hilarious video on YouTube, called
Do babies dream of being database engineers?
Back in the day, we worked on developing a specialty application that was basically a lead generation system with a database that stored over 200,000 records, with a potential for a lot more. The web application displayed numerous reports that calculated totals from disparate sources. We discovered that once our client began adding all their data that those reports were running slower and slower and slower. The problem was that we had one primary query to pull the records out, then, as the code looped through each record, several other queries were needed to calculate the disparate totals. That resulted in numerous database calls that slowed the entire web application. That's when Mike discovered MySQL Wizardry, that used the SUM(IF()) and the GROUP BY clause, problem solved. ...
It was my pleasure to work with Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL for about a year during 2005 and 2006. I was astounded by how involved he is with the employees and how well he keeps abreast of the goings-on in the company. He seems to be of the rare set who are not only strong supporters and evangelizers of the company and software, but are also technically familiar with it. With great folks like Mårten, Brian, Arjen, Zack and Ulf, MySQL AB has been and continues to be one of the most important Open Source companies that exists.
Go read the slashdot article here:
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Not sure how many CEOs get coverage on Slashdot, but a few days ago, Marten Mickos did an online interview there. Sometimes online discussions degenerate into a technological pissing match (such as the venerable "vi vs. emacs" arguments) and I'm glad this one didn't. Marten talks about issues around software quality, building a business, walking the line between enterprise and community needs and other interesting topics.
Following up on what Stewart and Colin reported: this definitely is the first
time PBXT has been mentioned on SlashDot: MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos Answers Your
Questions.
Mårten, speaking of the the innovative power of MySQL AB, says:
"But more massive is the innovation that happens in the MySQL
ecosystem", and lists PBXT amongst a lot of other great
work.
So I am very proud that PBXT was mentioned in this context!