Last weekend I finally found some time to upload pictures that I had taken during various events that I attended in the past few months. So here are my impressions from the following events:
Quite a few Blog postings pop up recently, let me outline two of them.
Gerry Narvaja talks about multi-page printing by using the MySQL Workbench community edition utilizing the PDF output. Find his posting here.
Weizh posted a nice step-by-step tutorial on how to use Workbench to show differences between two databases. Find it here.
Both workflows get you what you want by using the Community Edition. For those of you who want everything on a silver plate there is the Standard Edition of course, which simplifies these tasks even more.
On a side note: To get more information about the printing topic Gerry …
[Read more]JFYI: today I migrated the mylvmbackup source tree from my local Subversion repository on http://www.lenzg.org/ to a Bazaar repository on Launchpad.net.
This will hopefully make it easier for contributors to work on the code and share their modifications with others, removing me as the bottleneck for applying and testing patches for new releases. I chose Bazaar primarily because I wanted to get some more hands-on practice with it, now that the MySQL Server source trees have been transferred to it as well (see Kaj's announcement for …
[Read more]While we're on the topic of Bazaar - this week I got informed by the organizers of the FrOSCon 2008 conference that they accepted two of my talk proposals: one session will be an introduction to this source code management system (what a coincidence), the other one will be an introduction to OpenSolaris for Linux users, explaining some of the underlying technologies and how they differ from what a seasoned Linux user may be accustomed to.
And no, I have not given up on using Linux - quite the contrary! I have been very impressed by the latest OpenSUSE 11.0 release and already run it for since quite some time on several of my work systems. In fact, I already convinced several colleagues of mine to …
[Read more]Even though we had been preparing the migration to Bazaar for a while now, today's announcement kind of caught me by surprise. But I am very happy about this move!
While BitKeeper is an excellent tool and served us well the past eight (!) years, I was quite annoyed when BitMover decided to remove the fully functional free BitKeeper client, which effectively put our development back into a Cathedral: even though our source trees remained accessible via bkbits.net, the crippled bk client was only capable of cloning and pulling new revisions from there - it was not possible for an …
[Read more]If you happen to be in Munich, Germany next week, don't miss out the final Sun/MySQL launch event which will take place on Thursday, 26th of June at the "Sofitel Munich Bayerpost", Bayerstraße 12, D-80335 München.
Simon Phipps will speak about "Sun and Open Source - How it has changed the industry", Kaj Arnö will give a talk about the positioning, strategy and momentum of MySQL as a part of Sun. Other speakers include Donatus Schmidt (Marketing Director Sun Germany) and Ralf Gebhardt (Sales Engineer, MySQL). You can see the entire agenda here, you need to …
[Read more]Post Summary: An apology with a lesson.
When Steve Curry contacted me just after the MySQL Conference and Expo asking me if I’d be interested in a community roundtable, I was excited. Not just because Steve Curry brought me an inflatable pink dolphin after I squee‘d that I needed one, although I never forget when someone does me a favor.
However, a few weeks ago it seemed like the event was more of a PR gathering than a community roundtable. I was disappointed, and told Steve as much.
And then, one of two things happened:
1) My concerns were brought up, discussed and folks decided a
roundtable involving community was a good idea;
or
2) I had come up with two different pictures of the event in my
mind, based on my expectations of “community roundtable” at first
and “event with businesses and PR, to include …
Almost 2 years ago, in How Open Do You Have To Be To Be Open Source? I wrote:
Google and Yahoo! are not rich because they have secrets. They are rich because they started with secrets, but I believe they could safely let their secrets out with very little loss of revenue.
Matt Asay’s recent post Google’s slow transformation into an open, transparent company made me dig up that post, which by many standards is old in terms of time, but it’s only now that some of this change is actually happening.
Matt ponders,
It remains to be seen what, if anything, Google will actually open, but I trust its track record on living up to its word more than Microsoft’s, which also went through a flurry of …
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I was intrigued by this survey about MySQL today, and I took it.
Some of the questions made me think about the status of MySQL
community. Unlike other free/open source projects, MySQL
community people are not direct contributors to the project, but
just users. Then there are the more advanced ones who keep an
active role, and the majority who are just content to use it and
don't even care to participate in blogs or forums.
Seen throrugh the articles in PlanetMySQL, the MySQL community
has three components, with sub components:
Keith Murphy and Mark Schoonover have put together an excellent survey which is already doing good (seeing the numbers they have been clocking). Survey results will be out in the summer issue of MySQL magazine. I feel this is a "must take" survey for everyone in the MySQL community. And do not forget to mention my blog in the "top 5 favorite MySQL blogs" ;-). Just kidding!
Overall, this is the best survey regarding MySQL that I have ever taken, don't miss it. It will hardly take 10 minutes of your busy schedule. A busy man has the time do anything, right?
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