Here's a snapshot of my view out the office window...Yes, it's starting to look like springtime here in Chicago.

That also means it's that time of year where I start travelling for conferences. This year is shaping up to be light so far, but of course I will be at the MySQL Users' Conference next week in Santa Clara, CA.

Besides giving a tutorial, and two talks, I'm also looking forward to being part of the Java and MySQL community, hanging out at Gavin's talk about Hibernate and Seam, and participating in the …

Here‘s a snapshot of my view out the office window…Yes, it‘s starting to look like springtime here in Chicago.

That also means it‘s that time of year where I start travelling for conferences. This year is shaping up to be light so far, but of course I will be at the MySQL Users' Conference next week in Santa Clara, CA.

Besides giving a tutorial, and two talks, I'm also looking forward to being part of the Java and MySQL community, hanging out at Gavin's talk about Hibernate and Seam, and participating in the …

Well I fear it is not that simple. As avid readers of my blog may have noticed I have some beef with the Zend PHP IDE proposal that was recently accepted by the Eclipse Foundation. After studying the Eclipse Foundation governance rules, looking at the facts and talking to people from Zend, I am reminded once again that it is important that people realize that open source is not about licenses.

Of course the OSI might intentionally or unintentionally make you think that licenses is all that matters. I thought it was very telling that one of the comments in my "What open source is not" post noted that the OSI in fact makes it clear that the term "open source" is a marketing term. A way to supersede the "free software" term that is so closely associated with …

The Melbourne MySQL User Group April Meetup

Should be fun! I’m going to talk about Cluster.

Just got back from the MySQL DevCon in Sorrento, Italy, followed by a fortnight's working holiday in Bangkok. The day before I left Italy, I received a 5AM call advising me that someone had broken into the house (again). My useless sod of a rental agent was reported to have said, "If he thought he might get broken into, he oughtn't have gone overseas." WTF? I was supposed to ring up our CEO and tell him, "Hey, Mårten, you don't mind pushing back the conference about six months until Yong Property Management (pathetically negligent) decide to pull their finger out and do something about the shoddy locks on the windows and doors of that piece of crap I pay them $300 a fortnight for, do you?" Right! Those losers couldn't even be bothered to come secure the door after the fact. If it'd not been for my yard guy and my housekeeper taking matters into their own hands and doing something about my back door having the glass bashed out of it and gaily …

Just got back from the MySQL DevCon in Sorrento, Italy, followed by a fortnight's working holiday in Bangkok. The day before I left Italy, I received a 5AM call advising me that someone had broken into the house (again). My useless sod of a rental agent was reported to have said, "If he thought he might get broken into, he oughtn't have gone overseas." WTF? I was supposed to ring up our CEO and tell him, "Hey, Mårten, you don't mind pushing back the conference about six months until Yong Property Management (pathetically negligent) decide to pull their finger out and do something about the shoddy locks on the windows and doors of that piece of crap I pay them $300 a fortnight for, do you?" Right! Those losers couldn't even be bothered to come secure the door after the fact. If it'd not been for my yard guy and my housekeeper taking matters into their own hands and doing something about my back door having the glass bashed out of it and gaily …

this is the output of dtrace -n 'pid$target:::entry{ @[probefunc] = count() }'

when I run mysqlslap -c 20 -i 20

  pthread_getspecific                                             365
  malloc_internal                                                 377
  my_malloc                                                       377
  free                                                            378
  malloc                                                          378
  my_wc_mb_filename                                               399
  my_no_flags_free                                                420
  strmake                                                         444
  pthread_self                                                    468
  memset                                                          582
  alloc_root                                                      630
  strmov …

• Open source is not a marketing toy.
• Open source is not a way to get people to visit your site or to push your legacy tools.
• Open source is not just choosing one of the OSI approved licenses.

These are not the reason why people trust in open source applications.

• The reason is that peer review results in superior code.
• In code that is flexible that we can integrate as needed.
• Code we can poke and discuss.
• Code we trust because we know technical reasons are the single most important steering guideline.
• This process is why we think it is worth our time to provide free QA, support and advocacy for open source applications.

Now why am I ranting like this?
Zend has officially proposed a PHP IDE for eclipse (PHPEclipse is not an official Eclipse project) and they are certainly poring in development resources which cost them …

Being a CVS Version Control Person, I’ve had to learn Subversion as part of Open Source Contribution. Both MySQL and JMeter use SVN.

Steps for integration of SVN into Eclipse IDE. Refer to Subclipse for more information.

Installation of JMeter via SVN

• Start Eclipse
• Help | Software Updates | Find and Install
• Search For New Features To Install [Next]
• [New Remote Site]
• URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.0.x
• [Finish]

• Tick Subclipse [Next]
• I accept Terms and Condtions [Next] …

The newest MySQL baby!

Born 2006-03-30 00:30:00

8lb 4oz

21.5 inches

Mom and baby are doing great.

(Click to enlarge)