by @botchagalupe
on Virtualization, Open Source tools and DNS Problems
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by @botchagalupe
on Virtualization, Open Source tools and DNS Problems
Technorati Tags: dnsproblem drupal ha heartbeat linux-ha mysql pacemaker puppet virtualization xen …
[Read more]This blog post is a by-product of my preparation work for an upcoming talk titled "Why you should be using a distributed version control system (DVCS) for your project" at SAPO Codebits in Lisbon (December 3-5, 2009). Publishing these thoughts prior to the conference serves two purposes: getting some peer review on my findings and acting as a teaser for the actual talk. So please let me know — did I cover the relevant aspects or did I miss anything? What's your take on DVCS vs. the centralized approach? Why do you prefer one over the other? I'm looking forward to your comments!
Even though there are several distributed alternatives available for some years now (with Bazaar, git and …
[Read more]So you're a small startup company, ready to go live with your product, which you intend to distribute under an Open Source License. Congratulations, you made a wise decision! Your developers have been hacking away frantically, getting the code in good shape for the initial launch. Now it's time to look into what else needs to be built and setup, so you're ready to welcome the first members of your new community and to ensure they are coming back!
Keep the following saying in mind, which especially holds true in the Open Source world: "You never get a second chance to make a first impression!". While the most important thing is of course to have a compelling and useful product, this blog post is an attempt to highlight some other aspects about community building and providing the adequate infrastructure. This insight is based on my own experiences and my …
[Read more]Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB. The White House goes open source. And more.
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For the latest on Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL via Sun, see Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
In other news…
# EnterpriseDB confirmed Red Hat investment, partnership.
# Whitehouse.gov migrated to Drupal, as well as …
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Alta Elsta & I just completed the DTrace Quick Start
Guide: Observing Native and Web Applications in
Production mini-book. If you need a hardcopy let me know
but if you are like me and would love to save a few trees you can
click on the picture below to download the pdf version.
We talk about why DTrace is so different from any observation
tools you may have seen. We cover basic DTrace concepts and some
details on writing d-scripts. We also have a lot of sample
scripts. Sections on using DTrace to observe MySQL and Drupal are
included.
The examples from the book have also been added to a wiki page for easier copy & paste.
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Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via
the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the
open source content management system. That Drupal implementation
is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache, MySQL
and the rest of the LAMP stack. Apache Solr is
the new White House search engine.
This move is obviously a big win for open source. As John Scott
of Open Source for America (a group advocating open
source adoption by government, to which I am an advisor) noted in
an email to me: "This is great news not only for the use of open
source software, but the validation of the …
At the beginning of 2009, I was hired by Tag1 Consulting as Jeremy Andrews' full time partner. A decidedly questionable decision on his part, but a great change for me! I used to work at the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University and I am currently the sysadmin for drupal.org. Working at the OSL and drupal.org spoiled me, I'll be completely honest about that. I got used to working with interesting new technologies and consistently pushing the limits of my knowledge.
Since I started doing the occasional consulting job for Open Query, I've seen a lot of MySQL servers that have been installed once and then forgotten about. This gave me the idea to do a short presentation about some basic MySQL server configuration. The first go was at DrupalCampMelbourne and I recently tried (and failed) to cram it into a three minute lightning talk slot at the LUV September meeting.
The title of the talk is (now) MySQL > YourSQL. I chose this not because I think that MySQL is better than the $other_database you use or because I may or may not run a newer version of MySQL on better hardware, but because I use InnoDB and …
[Read more]For those who wonder why my blogging is so low these days (apart from today) .. I`m actually writing more Lines of Code than Blog Entries the last couple of weeks:)
And when I`m not writing code I`m reading :) Either proofreading an upcoming book on Zabbix or reading some of the other books Packt sent me.
Next to that I`m busy preparing my T-Dose presentation
Oh and did I mention a 40 something questions questionnaire about some merger ?
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[Read more]CodePlex, patents and Linux code. An interesting few days for Microsoft open source.
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CodePlex, CodePlex, CodePlex!
Microsoft launched the CodePlex Foundation to facilitate
open source contributions, and confirmed the departure of Sam Ramji.
Patents, Patents, Patents!
The OIN confirmed the acquisition of 22 patents formerly
owned by …