Ideas, releases, practical guides, and perspectives from the people building with MySQL.
The UPS decided to visit today and left this on the front doorstep:
Woot! If it’s even half as good as the tips and tricks described in the authors’ blogs we should all be in for a treat.
…and while I’m posting pictures, I can’t resist sharing this photo we took while visiting my family in Maine last week:
Yes, that’s a full size riding lawn mower strapped to the top of a small Ford Escort hatchback.
Version 0.7 of Q4M (a pluggable message queue storage engine for MySQL) has been released with following changes.
Q4M now caches the number of rows within a table. It is now possible to heavily issue SELECT COUNT(*) queries to monitor queue usage.
Q4M tables were incorrectly marked as binlog-capable in previous releases.
Q4M now includes an example web spider implementation. According to a test using preliminary version (detail in Japanese), the implementation was about two times faster than a crawler …
As I said before, I was invited to be on a panel at Velocity Conference. I was delighted to go. I had never been to San Francisco. I have been to Portland and Santa Clara several times. The panel was great. It was the Brian and photo sharing sites show. Seriously, it was me (dealnews.com), John Allspaw of Flickr, Don MacAskill of SmugMug and Farhan Mashraqi of Fotolog. Oh, there was also Shayan Zadeh of Zoosk, a social dating network and Michael Halligan, a consultant from BitPusher. We all had similar ideas. I told my …
[Read more]Spot the problem:
You work for company X.
Were you talking to Alice?
Will you be talking to Alice if you dial 555-5555?
As midterm reviews approach I've been working on cleaning up any
and all messy hacks so I can have a nice presentation. Last week
I started using the Makefile.am instead of bash scripts. This
week I tried cleaning it up further so that libmemcached is
compiled automatically as needed instead of as a pre-installed
dependency. Now any developer can download and compile my
modifications without having to jump through hoops.
I'm beginning to feel as though the build tools are more
difficult to edit than the code itself.
After numerous 'unable to find header' errors I think I have
finally fixed every INCLUDE declaration necessary. I think this
has put me a bit behind for the midterm review and caused a bit
of stress, but I think this will save me a great deal of time
overall.
Had my first segfault while working on the project last week, it
was a pain to track down without a debugger. The Eclipse debugger
doesn't play …
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Kaj Arnö, MySQL ambassador to Sun, has written a digest of his blogging production this year. It's an intriguing reading, because Kaj has been more on the road than at home this year, mostly performing the duties of communicator, explaining to Sun people what really is this MySQL that had just been acquired, and sharing his findings with fellow (ex) MySQL employees. Kaj's blogging sometimes has the role of breaking the news to the community. For example, he was the one who first wrote about the Sun acquisition of MySQL (published his post at 8:02 EST, barely one minute after … |
I had an update recently from ex-JBoss dude Shaun Connolly on what's going on at Ringside Networks. Ringside was founded by ex-Jboss, ex-BlueStone middleware business guru Bob Bickel. And if it's interesting enough to get him out of retirement, I figure it's worth paying attention to. The company is still in the early stages, about a dozen employees, mostly coding their brains out, on what they term a "social application server." The comparison of social networking applications with the early days of Java development is an apt one. It makes sense that there should be some kind of basic infrastructure... READ MORE
I'm pretty happy with my 1TB Apple Time Capsule. Bought it while
at the MySQL Conf in April, and it does the right thing for my
situation.
Con Zymaris and his crowd at Cybersource in Melbourne made
something like this ages ago, aimed at small businesses: Cybersource/DATASAFE. That's a pretty neat
solution, and an excellent example of how an OSS-based solution
can be deployed in a business, regardless of what other
technologies might already exist on the premises. The box will
work just fine in a Windows environment.
Always focus on the solution (and what practical needs it solves
for the client), not the technology (or the philosophy) - with a
happy customer, you'll get plenty of opportunity (over time) to
discuss what OSS is really about, and you're likely to find a
very willing ear at that point.
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Half a year has gone, most of it with my new company, Sun
Microsystems.Kaj has made a detailed digest of his first half.
I took the DBA approach and queried the Planet MySQL database. I
know that this qualifies as cheating, but I could not
resist.
I published a total of 111 blog posts since January, with peaks
in March and April (the users conference was coming).
I wrot about most everything, but some topics are prominent.
Users Conference and MySQL proxy …
