Here's one more that I stumbled over:

Five reasons why you should never use PostgreSQL -- ever

As the title suggests, it's mainly about PostgreSQL. However, a lot of it applies to MySQL, as well.

I just stumbled over a new book from Apress:

JDBC Metadata, MySQL, and Oracle Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Could be interesting for some folks ;-).

Dave Winer is one of the pioneers of the software industry. He singlehandedly developed and popularized outliners as a software category and later helped develop XML-RPC, SOAP and RSS. 

There's a good interview on NerdTV where Robert X. Cringely interviews Winer and discusses topics such as outlining, the early days of the software industry, why programmers don't always get it, the development and evolution of OSS, publishing on the internet and more.  Dave's not known for being a shrinking violet; he has strong views on a lot of technologies.  But love him or hate him, he's had huge impact on software in the last ten years.

• NerdTV: …

While at the MySQL developers meeting in Sorrento, Italy, we are getting the chance to take the MySQL 5.0 certification exams, which are currently in beta. We are proud that we make the exams fair but very challenging - it will be interesting to see if any of the developers who helped write MySQL 5.0 fail the exam! I’m glad that MySQL makes these exams available to internal developers, as it would otherwise be far to easy to focus on your own particular area of specialization. Studying for the exam is a good reminder of the different ways that it is possible to use MySQL.

The beta exams are also available to the public, and while the exams are in beta you get the benefit of extra time.

In Serving Images from a Database, Sheeri responded to me: I appreciate your ideas, but you haven't read what I've written: "the sheer number of files is enough to kill any os."

I'm serious about that. we're talking 36 million images -- that's 36 million files (no thumbnails, they're all reduced size) plus directories to store them in. We have cacheing tuned very well, and it's still kills the OS.

Here is what I tried to simulate that:

I took my new Strato MR2. It is currently running tor, INN and MySQL. There are two HDS722516VLSA80 160 GB SATA HDDs. These disks are rated at 8.8ms avg seek time, so there are 113 seeks …

I’m currently getting hard crashes about five times a day.

I thought it was the sound driver, as i got a crash during dist-upgrade (again) while on console and saw the backtrace. Basically looked like something bad happenned when the sound was muted.

So, running without sound muted - just turned down.

Well, today, just crashed again. Since running X, no backtrace. ARRRGHHH.

Also crashed when waking up too. ACPI stuff in the backtrace.

Not a happy camper at the moment. I have work to do, not futzing around with trying to find out what the fuck is wrong with my laptop (probably software) when I should be running a stable system.

I’ve already have to re-add all my liferea RSS feeds as liferea obviously isn’t doing the right thing (at least the version shipping with Ubuntu) regards writing the feeds file to disk.

So, I’m trying to prepare presentations for our DevConf on an …

Woke up this morning to discover a new guide to Asterisk@Home via Planet Asterisk. Reading through the guide has pretty much solidified my wish to move the house phone system to 2.6 when I get home. For those not playing along from home, I stumbled across Asterisk@Home less then a year ago, and have decided that my VOIP system is never going back to me hacking everything by hand.

The Asterisk@Home project releases a CD that installs not only a full PBX, but a working CRM system and database (ala MySQL). The setup is incredibly easy and most novices should be able to have it working in a couple of hours.

The project is still on the hobby'ist side of development but it is rapidly improving itself. I could easily see a small company …

After the introduction of German Planet MySQL last week, we now also have a Spanish Planet MySQL. Enjoy!

If you reckon there will be enough feeds for other languages, please do drop me a note.

I'm pretty excited about my next few weeks. I suppose one of the perks of my job is getting to attend and sometimes speak at a variety of conferences in the open source development world. Next week, I will be in Santa Clara for EclipseCon 2006. At this conference, I plan on filling in the large gaps of knowledge inside my brain regarding the Eclipse platform and IDE and meeting with a number of key Eclipse Foundation folks and Andi Gutmans from Zend. Stay tuned for some very important announcements tyhis week from MySQL AB and Eclipse.

I will be at the conference from the 21st through the 24th of March, so find me when I am there if you will also be at the conference. I want to meet as many Eclipse users as I can, so that I can get a better picture of how developers use the platform, what they see are the key …

I will be attending EclipseCon 2006 in Santa Clara, California, next week. It's an exciting thing for me for a number of reasons:

• MySQL Has Become a Member of the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider

  Yes, that's right. MySQL AB has officially become a member of the Eclipse Foundation this week. We will be devoting development resources to participation in 2 Eclipse projects that will be of great benefit to the MySQL Community.

• The Eclipse Data Tools Project is wickedly cool

  Basically, the DTP is developing Visual Database Tools like TOAD and DBArtisan. You will get all the familiar database tools (e.g. SQL Editor, SQL Debugger, SQL Browser, etc.)

  We will make sure that all the excellent tools from the DTP …