By nat

I spent the week before Where 2.0 driving between Berkeley, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale. One of the companies I met with was Meebo, an instant messaging startup in Palo Alto. Elaine, one of the three founders, is co-chair of the Javascript track at OSCON this year. Read on to learn how persistence pays off, why they make me feel old, and how their users helped them internationalize the site ...

Who

The company was started by three friends: Sandy Jen, Elaine Wherry, and Seth Sternberg. They're Stanford alumni, but all had jobs and worked on Meebo in their spare time. Meebo's actually the third incarnation of the company: they tried backup software, then p2p file sharing, and finally IM. They'd get to a point where they realized "this just isn't going to work" and moved on to …

Here are some pictures from first UG meeting in Denmark.

In my previous blog entry I described how to install a Pre-configured version of the Pentaho BI Platform. That entry concluded with testing a few out of the box samples to verify that the BI Platform is working correctly.

In this entry I will discuss some Pentaho (PCI) post-installation tasks. All these are also described in the Pentaho Quick start Guide.

Running the PCI as a server

A demo environment with samples is nice, but it's even nicer when you can offer the samples right at the fingertips of your audience. Suppose you want let a business play around with some of the samples: you certainly do not want to force them to crawl behind your demo machine. That would be like going to a restaurant and find out that they've only got one plate to eat from, so that all the customers need to queue …

working on the mysql bugs system filled the transition from me working on falcon to joining the connectors team, where i?ll be focusing on the connectivity for scripting languages.

my initial focus will be on python, ruby, and php. i haven?t figured out exactly what it is that i?ll be doing, but a likely candidate for my first big task will be building out the test suites for these so that they can eventually become part of our build verification process.

In my previous post about enhancing the graphs the MySQL Administrator displays I added a remark that there seems to be a difference between MySQL 4.1 and 5.0.

As it seems this has already been reported as MySQL Bug #10210 and fixed, however only for 5.1. Summarizing the bug report is easy: They implemented Heisenberg (or better: the observer effect). You cannot query the counters for e. g. the number of temporary tables created without modifiying it as you go. In 4.1 all the SHOW STATUS... commands (see the manual page) could be executed without modifying the values displayed, because they …

The telecom industry represents a huge opportunity for disruption; its an entrenched industry with commodity products services and many underserved markets.  Not surprisingly, open source technology is starting to nibble away at the edges of this billion dollar market both for products and services.  Digium, the developers of the open source PBX Asterisk, is one of the hot companies in this space enabling companies to implement VOIP systems at a fraction of the cost of proprietary hardware.  Not only is Asterisk open source, but it's built on an open source LAMP stack using MySQL.

• BusinessWeek: Open Source Takes on Telecom
• OnDisruption: …

Hello,

Looks like the "Enforcing Foreign Keys Programmatically in MySQL" article by Philippe Campos has been posted to the MySQL DevZone, check it out at:

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-enforcing-foreign-keys.html

Also, please join me this week on July 13 @ 10:00 AM PST for the "What's New in MySQL Cluster 5.1" webinar. We'll be exploring disk-data, row-based replication and a few other new features during the presentation.

It's not too late to register:

http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/

Thanks,

Jimmy

I learned something very important last night listening to Jim Starkey at the Boston MySQL meetup. It wasn't that Jim created the blob datatype on a scratch of paper while stuck in Colorado waiting out a snowstorm that had closed the Boston airport. It also wasn't that when he created the blob it was hard to sell it to the folks at DEC, and even after adoption they gave it a more sophisticated sounding name, "segmented strings".

No, the important thing I learned is that when Jim created the blob datatype it wasn't an acronym, it was a reference to the large jelly-like alien from the 1958 classic, The Blob. The BLOb (Binary Large Object) acronym was created later, much to Jim's dismay.

The history is nicely captured in …

By nat

I met with the Ning crew in mid-June, the week before Where 2.0. Many thanks to Gina, David, Diego and others for taking the time to walk me through everything. I went in thinking "they're a crappy PHP hosting environment" and came away (a) knowing what they are, and (b) impressed. Read on to learn what changed my mind ....

What They've Got

At the bottom level of Ning is a toolkit of Web 2.0 services (authentication, data store, tagging) made available through RESTian APIs. Anybody can use these, whether they use the rest of Ning or not. These are implemented in Java 5 (no J2EE), running on more than 20 Solaris boxes using virtualization with Solaris zones. Fast, and secure (no …

Yesterday I opened a group on Meetup to manage our first meeting in Belgium. This is in addition to our event on Upcoming.org. If you are attending, please use which ever website you like to RSVP.

Language is an issue in Belgium, but it shouldn't really. English will be used so all should be able to follow. If one has a question which he or she can only express in Dutch, French or German (don't forget Die German folks!).. we can manage! It's Belgium after all!

So, go here to sign up:
- http://mysql.meetup.com/148/
- http://upcoming.org/event/90055/