Stephen de Vries sent an email to SecurityFocus's web application security mailing list earlier today to comment on the new Google Code Search:
Google's code search provides an easy way to find obvious software flaws in open source and example applications.
He provided a few example queries to illustrate his point:
[Read more]I've written about Hyperic before when they open sourced their stack management and monitoring software. Hyperic's HQ product is the best way to manage a software stack in production, whether it's an open source LAMP stack, a closed source stack or, more likely, a hybrid combination. The HQ product was a spinoff from Covalent and was in development for several years before it was open sourced earlier this year. CEO Javier Soltero had a vision for creating a company around the technology and he's been able to do just that without compromising on the things that have made the technology successful.
HQ is an extensible system and so not only does it monitor all kinds of operating systems, web servers, app servers and database servers, but it can be extended to monitor just about any kind of application, both at a technical level and at a business level. One of …
[Read more]Today I tried on my database the WITH QUERY EXPANSION clause on a fulltext search.
I manage the website of a famous italian soccer club (www.inter.it), and we
have hundreds of thousands of pictures of actual and former
players, coaches, events and so on.
Every day a back-office tool involve our web editors in finding
pictures based on captions. I developed such a feature using a
simple full-text search.
So, let's try to find all pictures about "goalkeepers"
(unfortunately this word is not mainly used in picture
captions)
mysql> select count(*) from media where match(caption_en)
against('goalkeeper');
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 60 |
+----------+
Let's try now the same query using WITH QUERY EXPANSION
mysql> select …
Today I tried on my database the WITH QUERY EXPANSION clause on a fulltext search.
I manage the website of a famous italian soccer club (www.inter.it), and we
have hundreds of thousands of pictures of actual and former
players, coaches, events and so on.
Every day a back-office tool involve our web editors in finding
pictures based on captions. I developed such a feature using a
simple full-text search.
So, let’s try to find all pictures about “goalkeepers”
(unfortunately this word is not mainly used in picture
captions)
mysql> select count(*) from media where match(caption_en)
against('goalkeeper');
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 60 |
+----------+
Let’s try now the same query using WITH QUERY EXPANSION
mysql> select …
Fonality Acquires trixbox, World’s Largest Asterisk-Based Community, Fonality (Press Release)
SugarCRM Launches SugarExchange, a Global Marketplace for CRM Applications, SugarCRM (Press Release)
IBM Expands Open Source Contributions to Further Enable Web 2.0 Adoption, IBM (Press Release)
Red Hat Builds Strength in the Channel, Red Hat (Press Release)
[Read more]Recently, we've seen a number of excellent contributions to the MySQL server, and we're talking with Kevin Burton about possibly integrating his excellent lbpool work into the Connector suite. Jeremy Cole has written a number of patches for small, but very useful, feature enhancements to the main server — namely the ability to do a SHOW PROFILE trace of calls during statement execution, host cache improvements for 5.0, and some nice utility functions for trigger/procedure diagnostics. Bill Karwin has submitted a patch which …
[Read more]It looks like there's going to be a MySQL Meetup forming in the Phoenix area. A few of us are planning to get together next month for an inaugural meeting. There seems to be any number of people in the Valley of the Sun who are interested in MySQL or related topics, so it will be interesting to see if this meetup gets off the ground and attracts any sort of meaningful membership.
Congratulations today should be give to Fonality who just made
one of the best acquisitions of the year.
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/fonality-acquires-trixbox.asp
So why is this big news? Trixbox is the distribution for
telephony on Linux today. They have put together a vertical Linux
distribution dedicated to telephony. It combines Asterisk with a
web based interface backed by MySQL, integrated into the SugarCRM
solution. As Redhat today is the LAMP of the IT Enterprise and
Web Framework, (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP), Trixbox is the
LAMP stack of the Telephony market, Linux , Asterisk, MySQL,
Perl/PHP.
Fonality just moved into first place for the telephony linux
vertical stack, and this is a trillion dollar market, one in
which Microsoft doesn't have the technology to …
I have the chance to spend some weeks in the apartment of my
friend and colleague Russell Dyer in Milan, Italy. I'll be living
and working here for couple of weeks and tour around for 10 days
in central Italy later.
This is not my first visit to Italy. I was already in Sorrento
and Naples before with MySQL when we had a DevCon there. It is my
first time though that I have to buy bread, milk and groceries in
Italian shops and try to figure out what they said!
I don't speak a word Italian except for the very basics. Speaking
fluently french helps, though my head is getting a mess speaking
sometimes 4 languages in a day..
I'll see if I survive, but I'll do great I think!
Btw, first thing that came as a blow to me, or at least my ears:
Milan is damn loud! Maybe it's something general in Italy.. I'll
check it out.
Here's a quick tip to make a custom Graph in MySQL
Administrator.
MySQL Administrator can be separately installed from the MySQL
GUI Tool Bundle. Oh yeah, did you know that
finding and reporting bugs in the GUI tools might win
you an iPOD?
Now, about that tip: it's a documented feature, but not well known
nonetheless.
Click the "Health" item in the left sidebar, and choose one of
the tab pages:
Once you've opened the page, the right-click is your friend in
many ways. Just right-click inside the frame enclosing the graphs
to add a …