For the past year I’ve been running the MySQL Meetup Silicon Valley, and it’s been fun. We normally either have open discussion, or a scheduled topic. I often present something. Starting with the February 12 Meetup we will be meeting at Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. (Thanks, Google!)
Feel free to come on down or up to Mountain View and hang out with us on the second Monday of each month! Wanna speak at one of the Meetups? Let me know!
Today we have released the first build of MySQL Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1 -- a downloadable plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows Windows developers to quickly build MySQL data-driven applications with Visual Studio. With this plug-in, developers will be able to create, modify and manage MySQL database objects with an easy-to-use interface from within the Visual Studio IDE. This product is delivered as a package compatible with Visual Studio 2005 and delivers the following features:
This release builds on the original 1.0 plugin by adding support for using the DataSource wizard and the DataSet designer in Visual Studio 2005. The Data Source wizard can be found by choosing Data|Add Data Source from the Visual Studio menu. It provides a way to connect the generic data-handling capabilities of Visual Studio to our provider. Once a data source is added then custom datasets can be created using the …
[Read more]Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly, human-edited overview of database blogs. I’m on my own again this week, but I hope to make some new Log Buffer friends soon. Let’s begin with Colin Charles’s blog, where he offers some background of the reception of MySQL AB’s introduction of its dual-distribution model, using a quote, “MySQL [...]
O'Reilly's Oscon 2007 call for papers will be closing February 5. This is the last chance to submit talks. Hopefully there will be lots of good technical sessions on the LAMP stack, Web 2.0 and MySQL. If you've never been to Oscon, this is a great chance to take part in what is arguably the best open source conference on the planet. Hey, why be a spectator when you can be an active participant?
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention
July 23-27, 2007
Portland, Oregon
I recently had the opportunity to review NGS Software's updated
Typhon III general vulnerability scanner. I had previously
reviewed it two years ago and was impressed with the product
then. The updated version has some nice, new features. You can
read my review here: A Review of Typhon III. It'll hit the main
page of SQLServerCentral.com on Feburary 5, 2007.
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Since so many HUMBUG members are interested in the OSDC-2007-in-Brisbane idea, there will be an
initial gathering to discuss ideas and such at the HUMBUG meeting
this Saturday, 27 January.
HUMBUG is
run at Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building (no. 50) at the
University of Queensland. The usual HUMBUG meetings start at 3pm,
but the OSDC discussion will commence at 5pm. I did some venue
scouting earlier this week, so I'll be able to give some info on
that.
See you there, if you can make it - otherwise if you are
interested in helping and haven't dropped me a line yet, please
do so (at my-first-name @ my-last-name dot com dot au). I'm
keeping a list and will make sure everybody is included for
follow-up meetings and everything else. Thanks!
The second edition of the annual Free and Open Source
Software Conference (FrOSCon) will take place on August
25-26 2007 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in
Sankt Augustin, Germany near the cities of Bonn and
Cologne.
FrOSCon is a
two day conference that revolves around a rich schedule of talks,
highlighting current topics in Free
Software and Open
Source. Moreover, developers will be offered space to
organize their own meetings or subconferences.
If you are interested in sponsoring this great event, do not
hesitate to …
It?s simply too inaccurate to be useful. I?ve switched to using google with firefox bookmark keywords instead. Here is how to set it up. In firefox click on Organize Bookmarks under the Bookmarks menu. Click the New Bookmark button and fill in the following values.
Click ok and close the bookmark menu. Now instead of typing mysql.com/foo or using the search box on mysql.com you can simply type mysql foo into the address bar. Firefox will use your keyword to load the location in the bookmark replacing %s with foo resulting in results from the mysql manual. This can be done with any search engine. Simply do a test search and replace the search term with %s for the bookmark url.
It's been a while since I posted anything to this blog. Now there
is a cause to rev up - my talk about the client library internals
was accepted.
The puzzle how to deliver anything more than superficial in scope
of a 45 minute presentation remains to be solved, and perhaps not
without help of the blogosphere.
Can someone please tell me why I have to suffer a UAC prompt elevation to set environment variables for myself? And please don't try and justify it by telling me the UI for setting user environment variables is in the same place as system environment variables thus requiring an elevation.
Yet more evidence that Vista is simply half-baked.