HackFest B: Creating a New SHOW Command by Brian Aker at the MySQL Users Conference

Brian stepped through the steps for those attending to modify and deploy new functionality in the mysql server. Cool. The end result I would consider for an experienced developer as relatively easy (after avoiding the pitfalls).

NOTE: I wasn’t able to complete this successfully during the session, but I’ve posted this, so hopefully the input and review of others can help in overcoming the current issues. See Outstanding Issues throughout my notes.

Our goal: Produce a new command SHOW CONFERENCE;

The following commands were performed on CentOS 4.2. There may be some …

i just took a few pictures, and only the three that i?ve tagged were worth sharing.

but i like that i caught david in the act of doing what he seemingly does the most at conferences ? taking a picture.

the conference was great, or at least the day of it that i attended was. it?s still on-going, and you can check out planet mysql for ongoing coverage.

These are the slides I have shown at my security talk (Room F at 11.50am today).

Security and the real world (PDF, 1.4 MB):


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There is a huge market for storage products, backup and recovery, data protection and such. In the open source space, only Zmanda seems to be making any progress with the open source approach to this problem. I spoke with Ken Sims and CEO Chander Kant about their new offerings.

Zmanda network launched yesterday and is offering certified versions of Amanda, and support and services similar to the RedHat network model. The pricing will be much lower and easier to understand than traditional storage software. Roughly ~$50-250 per server or workstation. Linux is the primary platform for the solution, but they will be adding more operating systems to the mix over the next year or so.

Amanda has been out since 1991 so its battle tested already and the company has been pleasantly surprised by the number of people using it. "We think our market is the MySQL market. We're adding enhancements …

By tim

In his keynote at today's MySQL Conference, MySQL CEO Marten Mickos reframed Web 2.0 in a lovely way: "The ecosystem is the computer and collaboration is its operating system."

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Mike’s laptop went funny, but he had a backup of his presentation.

So, something about my backup strategy.

I have a policy that anything that I really care about is backed up. If it’s not backed up, I don’t care about it.

e.g. while I’d be sad if my mythtv box suddenly had a disk failure, I can always put in a blank disk and I don’t loose too much.

My email is fetched onto a server at home, and I use offlineimap to keep an up to date (nearly) copy on my laptop. I also, at least weekly, burn the entire thing to DVD (it still fits, when bzip2 compressed).

Also, for all that other stuff that is pretty important (/home), I do a xfsdump to external disk.

I also now (on a paranoid spending trip at Fry’s) have a small …

I spoke with Paola Lubet, VP of Marketing at SolidDB to discuss their recent announcements with MySQL. According to Paola, the major roadblock for OSS databases into mission-critical environments is the real time nature of transactional data. SolidDB has been developing real-time databases for the last 14 years with features that go beyond basic storage (as one might perceive OSS databases to offer). This advanced functionality is common to Oracle etc, but not regularly seen in OSS databases. MySQL is the first open source DB that will feature this functionality. Both camps think that this will help MySQL move deeper into enterprises.

A prototype is available for download now.
Beta is July
Production is planned for Q4.

Dear MySQL User Conference Attendees,

The resources I mentioned to some or many of you are:

• The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - the classic MIT introductory computer science course textbook (and supporting video lectures are here.)
• PHP Vikinger - a PHP-focused unconference held in Norway on June 24 and 25th.
• GPL v3 site - make sure to check out the comments section
• eZ components - well-designed components for PHP web apps that are well-designed, …

“there’s nothing here i can eat for morning tea, could I please get an apple?”

“no”.

fuck.

Today, a few days later than originally planned and after 91 days in beta testing, the new version of XAMPP for Linux and Windows is ready for downloading. The major updates in this version are PHP 5.1.2 and 4.4.2, MySQL 5.0.20, eAccelerator 0.9.4 and phpMyAdmin 2.8.0.3.

Find more details on the specific XAMPP project page.