I have blogged about meeting up with Georg, Peter, Andrey and Ulf in Frankfurt last November to discuss the mysqlnd project. What is mysqlnd you may ask? You can find an answer in the FAQ section of the newly released mysqlnd project page on mysql.com. However, for the lazy reader I will briefly say what it is about

The idea behind the mysqlnd is to leverage the PHP infrastructure in order to communicate with the MySQL server. As such it is a replacement for libmysql and just like libmysql it can be used in any PHP extension. So while currently the reference implementation is done inside ext/mysqli, it is pretty certain that ext/pdo_mysql will also make use of mysqlnd eventually.

Now why would we care? One boring, yet important aspect, is that mysqlnd will be licensed under the PHP …

Technocation, Inc has a list of where you can get MySQL binaries — official and unofficial — up at:

http://tinyurl.com/3anjfa

From: http://tinyurl.com/299h29

Oracle Updates Free SQL Developer Tools
Oracle Corp. has released the first major upgrade to SQL Developer, its free visual database development tool. The new version can browse non-Oracle databases, including Microsoft SQL Server and Access and MySQL AB?s open-source MySQL. The SQL Developer 1.1 tool simplifies the creation and debugging of code in standard SQL and in Oracle?s proprietary PL/SQL programming languages.

Roland Bouman has an excellent blog post on it:
http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2007/01/oracle-sql-developer-11-supports-mysql.html

This person dreamed that they were trying to compile part of Firefox, and the compile button was actually the snooze button on the alarm clock. I experienced a similar dream years ago: I dreamt I was a debugger, and this breakpoint kept firing (the breakpoint turned out to be my alarm clock).

Anyone else had dreams that you were a computer? Or a MySQL storage engine? Or a compiler?

lca2007 already totally rocks.

did the speaker thing this morning, which was awesome (and i won’t spoil the surprise)

mysql miniconf today, should rock.

Two weeks into the New Year, and four weeks since I got back from Thailand, I finally get round to updating this thing. By “updating”, I don’t just mean posting. Gojira the One-Lung Webserver has had an overhaul as well: I’ve added some more RAM, caught up with the last couple of months’ worth of Windows 2000 patches, updated to the latest versions of PHP, MySQL, WordPress, and Cygwin. (Tip: If you’re running PHP and MySQL on Windows, be sure to get rid of the libMySQL.dll that comes with PHP — because it’s crap — and to use the version that comes with MySQL instead.)

So… 2006 was a pretty decent year, with a number of positive changes:

• I got to see my daughter grow up some more. She’s just more amazing every time I see her.
• I got out of the hell-hole of a house that I’d lived in for 3 years. I must admit that I had some mixed emotions about that. I’d lived there …

For those that attended the MySQL Camp at Google HQ late last year you may have seen me with my own T-Shirt designs. A number of people inquired about getting them. I’ve finally got around to make them available online, so anybody that would like one can order online.

There are two different shirts. If you want your name on the shirt, you need to make sure you choose the correct one.

• Early Adopters - For those that were the first 48 that signed up, your name as well as position and company are on the shirt.
• The Herd - For everybody that registered on the website, your name is on the shirt.

Ok. I’ve …

Its been a while since I have posted on my blog. I should at least note that I will be speaking at MySQL User Conf in Santa Clara as well as php|tek in Chicago. Aside from that I am working a little bit on improving Doctrine a very promising DBAL/ORM based on PDO for PHP. Anyways lets get back to the original topic which has nothing to do with PHP or databases directly, but might also be of concern to all of you still. Since I am now in the consulting business I am spending a lot of time working at client premises using my laptop. I really miss an external monitor though. I find it highly unproductive to alt+tab between my editor and the browser or some documentation all the time. …

Distributed development teams are becoming more and more commonplace - truly distributed teams with individual members living around the globe, not just a big company which happens to have independent teams in several different countries. The MySQL development team is organized this way, as are many other projects.

A new paper is available from Andrew Bennetts about distributed development: Coding in a Distributed Team: Testing, Reviewing, Sharing and Merging Code Without Going Crazy. This is definitely worth reading for anyone who does MySQL development even if you don’t consider yourself a developer - there are ideas in this paper which can make the life of both developers and operations folks much better.

Andrew speaks from personal experience working on …

I’m interested to know what people consider will behold MySQL in 2007?

The announcement of “You” as Time person of the year can only considered a huge boost to the opportunities in 2007. So, in 2007 here are my 7 (in no significant order).

1. 2007 will be the year of the storage engine. We will see 5 offerings for transactional storage engines, 20+ available and practical engines for management of some form of data.
2. 2007 will see MySQL 5.1 GA (finally).
3. 2007 will see MySQL release it’s own Falcon Storage Engine (GA not until Q4 ).
4. The MySQL Winter of Code will enable the contributions of the community to change feature development. I foresee a Bounty system from an external party or parties for MySQL Features emerging.
5. MySQL will make major press inroads to the RDBMS Big 3 of Oracle, SQL Server and IBM DB2.
6. Despite efforts of MySQL AB, major installations of …