The Sun Tech Days Singapore started earlier this morning - over 1100 developers, an outstanding audience!!!

The kick off had a good local flare when the Gods of Longevity, Fortune, and Prosperity (Fu Lu Shou) showed up to start the event ;-) The build up to their appearance was really exciting as evident from the video below:

This particular event will also be recorded in Singapore Book of Records for the largest numbers of Sun developers playing a rattle together :) Here are some pictures from the event:

A Toshiba laptop and an iPod was …

There are a couple of bookstores in my neighborhood. They could not be more different from one another.

The first is known to focus on best seller lists, to promote popular books, and use displays and traditional retail techniques to drive business. They seem to do well, year in, year out. The other bookstore is more of a community treasure, beloved by the neighborhood, with a focus on the (thoughtful) insights of their staff. Those insights are delivered via small note cards appended to shelving throughout the store, where books are displayed alphabetically, with library-like neutrality.

The first store is very market focused, changes with the season, and seems to be quite succesful. The latter store, beloved though it may be, struggles to stay in business.

Now you might consider that an awkward …

This blog highlights couple of contributions by Campus Ambassadors (CA) from University of Essex and Frankfurt towards GlassFish.

Pre-condition: No one out of 25 present ever heard about GlassFish
Post-condition: Everyone is looking forward to put their hands on, how great it is! dear all, we are approaching labs where …

I have been tagged by numerous people (Marcus, Lars, Mark and probably a few others .. just too man people playing along!).

So semi random facts about me ..

• I actually picked my first name Lukas myself. At birth my name was Kahwe Haddad, but when I was adopted by the man I call my father in elementary school I changed my last name to his and also picked a new first name, moving Kahwe to be my middle name.
• As some may have guessed from my birth name, I am half persian on my fathers side. My mother is from East Germany and actually escaped with her family from East Germany. My adoptive father is american. So I am a German, with a …

I was running a hard drive diagnostic using SeaTools for DOS v1.09PH on two exactly the same Maxtor hard drives, see details of the drives below. When I attempted to run a quick scan and then a long scan it received a warning “Overtemp–253″. After doing some research I have come to the conclusion that with certainty that this doesn’t mean the hard drive is running at 253 degrees Fahrenheit. My two drives are well ventilated and do not even feel warm to the touch. In fact this message apparently means according to Seagate that the hard drive does not support SeaTools reading temperatures.

• Brand: Maxtor
• Model: 6Y060L0
• FW: YAR41BW0

Source: Incorrect temperature values for a Maxtor disk

This Tip Of The Day answers the following comment on my blog:

How to Configure a MySql database to be able to connect Netbeans6.5.?

I've tried using mysql Server 6 many times, but it fails.
Please, let me know how to fix that problem.

• Download MySQL 6.0 from here.
• Install and start MySQL 6.0 on Mac OSX using the clearly written installation instructions.
  • Basically the download is available in .tar or .dmg format. Using .dmg format is the easiest way, double-click and follow the instructions taking all defaults.
  • MySQL is installed in …

A while back I announced on the PDO mailinglist that I would review the tests the mysqlnd team wrote. These tests are currently MySQL specific and I was hoping that we could adopt them for the other drivers. I spend less time than I originally envisioned on the review, mostly because the last 2 months were a bit more exhausting at work than I had anticipated. So I ended up sleeping more and working less. Anyways, at this point it seems to me like the tests themselves are too MySQL specific to be easily portable to other RDBMS and that the time is therefore better spend simply writing new tests and using the mysqlnd tests as inspiration. However, I feel like the current structure of the test suite is not optimal yet, though I might not fully grasp the current approach.

So I think the next …

MySQLPreacher has only started ten days ago, but despite it has limited viewers so far it would still like to wish all readers a great new year full of joy and happiness, with no deadlocks or failing backups, no overloaded slowquery logs. Hope it will be a year with an enviable uptime!

Hi All,

I’ve been thinking about contributing to the MySQL community for a while and given we’re at the end of 2008, starting 2009, I thought …. maybe this is actually the right preposition for the coming year. There will be many changes in my life in the next week and a half, amongst which a change of countries and jobs, thus this will be the third biggest challenge for me in the ninth year of this third millennium.

Upgraded VirtualBox and booted up my OpenSolaris VM. VirtualBox 2.1.0 finally fixes the bug where if 127.0.0.1 was in resolv.conf on the host - no DNS for you in the guest (unless in the guest you were running a DNS server).

Haven’t tried it yet… but OpenGL Accelleration makes at least a checkbox appearance in VirtualBox 2.1…. so that could be rather awesome.

Going a lot better with OpenSolaris 2008.11 than previous releases.. It looks like it might be quite easy to get to the stage of building Drizzle on it.

Just figured out how to change to Dvorak! Yay, I can type again! (Go to Input Methods preference panel and add US/DVORAK as a language, move it to the top, and enable the input method application and do it that way).

Currently installing sunstudioexpress. Why not gcc? I’m pretty sure the version in OpenSolaris is still ancient (so won’t build drizzle) and Sun Studio does produce different warnings …