If you love a software product, you should try to improve it, and not be afraid of criticizing it. This principle has guided me with MySQL (where I have submitted many usability bugs, and discussed interface with developers for years), and it proves true for Tungsten Replicator as well. When I started working at Continuent, while I was impressed by the technology, I found the installation procedure and the product logs quite discouraging. I would almost say disturbing. Fortunately, my colleagues have agreed on my usability focus, and we can enjoy some tangible improvements. I have already mentioned the new installation procedure, which requires just one command to install a full master/slave cluster. I would like to show how you can use the new installer to deploy a multiple source …
[Read more]| We have been busy, at Continuent. In addition to our usual work with high performance replication, we have addressed usability issues, since we know that a hard-to-use problem, no matter how powerful, has low adoption. Thus, is with some personal satisfaction that I can announce the release of Tungsten Replicator 2.0.3, which comes with several huge improvements in matter of user friendliness. The new installation procedure is so user friendly, in fact, that I was able to build a sophisticated tungsten-sandbox with a 150-line shell script. (The corresponding features … |
Nagios is a powerful monitoring system and here we will learn how to monitor MySQL through Nagios. We will be installing Nagios, required plugins and configuring it to monitor MySQL…
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Recently I happen to install MySQL on Mac OS X (Darvin Kernel). Below are the quick 5 steps to accomplish the task. Step 1: Check Mac Version Very first step…
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Over the weekend I updated my Drupal 7 test appliance in SUSE Studio to the Drupal 7.0-beta2 release, which was released on Oct. 23rd. I also added phpMyAdmin upon a user request, to provide a web-based method to work with the MySQL instance, if needed.
In addition to the lightweight "headless" appliance (which can only be accessed and configured via a remote network connection), I've now also created a GUI-based version. This appliance starts a minimal GNOME desktop and a Mozilla Firefox browser, which in turn opens the …
[Read more]The Drupal community just recently released another alpha test release of their upcoming Drupal 7 version, to shake out the remaining bugs and to encourage more users to test it.
If you would like to give it a try, but you don't have a free server handy, how about using a virtual machine instead? Using the fabolous SuSE Studio, I've created an appliance based on openSUSE 11.3, Drupal 7.0-alpha7 and MySQL 5.1 with the InnoDB plugin and strict mode enabled (both for the …
[Read more]A company wiki can be easily configured in under 10 minutes using Mediawiki the open source LAMP software that powers the top 10 website Wikipedia.
A company wiki is an ideal means for a centralized and user contributed documentation system. The following steps show you how to download, configure and get your Mediawiki site operational.
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[Read more]A company blog can be easily configured in under 10 minutes using Wordpress, a popular open source LAMP product that runs a reported 12+ million blogs including those found at CNN, NY Times, Wall Street Journal (WSJ), ZDNet, MTV, People Magazine, Playstation and eBay.
A company blog is a great way for the dissemination of information to your user base as well as enabling a means of user feedback via comments.
The following steps show you how to download, configure and get your Wordpress blog operational.
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[Read more]After successfully installing MySQL on Oracle Enterprise Linux installing a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack can also be performed with a single command:
$ yum install -y httpd php php-mysql # Start the Apache Httpd Process $ /etc/init.d/httpd start
To test and confirm Apache Httpd and PHP, we can use the CLI browser lynx:
$ yum install -y lynx $ echo "<? phpinfo() ?>" > /var/www/html/phpinfo.php $ lynx http://localhost/phpinfo.php
If successful, you will find a web page that contains the following.
phpinfo() (p1 of 31) PHP Logo PHP Version 5.1.6 System Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 3 04:15:13 EDT 2009 x86_64 Build Date Feb 11 2010 19:07:36 Configure …[Read more]
So I told myself "I wish I had a tool that installed plugins
instantly and painlessly, the way MySQL Sandbox installs a
server.
There you go. So yesterday I had enough of suffering and have put
together an installation script that does a good job of
installing several plugins with little or no effort.
OverviewHow does it work? For now, it's a separate script, but it
will soon end into SBtool, the Sandbox tool.
Plugins need different operations, and the difficult part is
finding a clear way of …