In the MySQL world, I am surrounded by some of the best database consultant, it brings them immense joy about having a “Friday”, so much so that they cannot believe that it actually is a Friday. Regardless of what they see on their watches and calendars, it becomes a crucial task of the day to […]
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The website or mobile app is the storefront for participating in the modern digital era. It’s your portal for inviting users to come and survey your products and services. Much attention focuses on front-end development; this is where the HMTL5, CSS, and JavaScript are coded to develop the landing page that everyone sees when they visit your site.
But the real magic happens on the backend. This is the ecosystem that really powers your website. One writer has articulated this point very nicely as follows:
The technology and programming that “power” a site—what your end user doesn’t see but what makes the site run—is called the back end. Consisting of the server, the database, and the server-side applications, it’s the behind-the-scenes functionality—the brain of a site. …
[Read more]Auf der FrOSCon 10 in St. Augustin habe ich kürzlich ein Update zu unseren Erfahrungen mit dem Thema "Private Cloud mit OpenSource" gegeben. Leider sind noch nicht alle Probleme, über die letztes Jahr berichtet wurde, behoben, aber wir sind schon ein gutes Stück weiter und haben neue Stolperfallen gefunden und z. T. auch überwunden.
Leider habe ich mich mit der Zeit ein wenig getäuscht, da ich den Talk vorher schon einmal in gekürzter Form in 40 Minuten unterbringen musste, aber in der Präsentation den Countdown für die FrOSCon wieder auf 60 Minuten zu stellen vergessen hatte. Zwischenzeitlich war ich deswegen der Meinung, ziemlich hinterherzuhängen... Hoffe, es macht trotzdem ein bisschen Spaß, so blieb am Ende mehr Zeit für Fragen und Gespräche :)
Hier noch die Folien auf Slideshare:
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[Read more]The call for participation at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 is now closed. There have been more than 320 submissions, and this will keep the review committee busy for a while.
One important point for everyone who has submitted: if you have submitted a proposal but haven’t included a bio in your account, do it now. If you don’t, your chances of being taken seriously are greatly reduced. To add a bio, go to your account page and fill in the Biography field. Including a picture is not mandatory, but it will be definitely appreciated.
Although the CfP is closed for tutorials and regular sessions, your chances of becoming a celebrity are not over yet. The CfP is still …
[Read more]After a long pause in the speaking game, I am back.
It's since April that I haven't been on stage, and it is now time to resume my public duties.
Introduction
Object-relational mapping (ORM) frameworks have been around for several years now and for some people, ORM is already outdated by now. As we have seen with other technologies and concepts before, PHP is not exactly what we call an early adopter among the programming languages. Thus it took some time for ORM to grow up in the PHP context.
There have been some frameworks before Doctrine 2 that implement ORM (remember e.g. Propel) specific tasks but most of them lack the required maturity to be used in large projects. With Doctrine 2, PHP takes a huge step into the right direction Doctrine 2 is fast, extensible and easy to use.
This article will take you on a tour through the main concepts of Doctrine 2 in the first part and then explain how to use it in a real world application in the second part. Since at the time of writing …
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The Danish "julehjerte" is apparently a Danish/Northern Europe Christmas tradition (at least according to Wikipedia). But hopefully people outside this region will also be able to enjoy this variant:
I have been doing "julehjerter" ever since I was a small kid, and every Christmas try to do something different with it. As seen above, this year I decided to combine the tradition with the MariaDB logo, and I am frankly quite pleased with the result :-)
The Danish "julehjerte" is apparently a Danish/Northern Europe Christmas tradition (at least according to Wikipedia). But hopefully people outside this region will also be able to enjoy this variant:
I have been doing "julehjerter" ever since I was a small kid, and every Christmas try to do something different with it. As seen above, this year I decided to combine the tradition with the MariaDB logo, and I am frankly quite pleased with the result :-)
ScaleDB is proud to announce the introduction of a database that
takes data storage to a new level, and a new altitude. ScaleDB’s
patent pending “molecular-flipping technology” enables low energy
molecular flipping that changes selected water molecules from H20
to HOH, representing positive and negative states that mimic the
storage mechanism used on hard drive disks.
“Because we act at the molecular level, we achieve massive
storage density with minimal energy consumption, which is
critical in today’s data centers, where energy consumption is the
primary cost,” said Mike Hogan, ScaleDB CEO. “A single thimble of
water vapor provides the same storage capacity as a high-end
SAN.”
The technology does have one small challenge: persistence. Clouds
are not known for their persistence. ScaleDB relies on the
Cumulus formation, since it is far beefier than some of those
wimpy cirrus clouds. However, when deployed …