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Everything open source from Sun
In the recent interview Missed Twitter Questions from Jonathan Schwartz Interview at Web 2.0 Expo Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is quoted as saying “Everything Sun delivers will be freely available, via a free and open license (either GPL, LGPL or Mozilla/CDDL), to the community.
Migrating my blog & updating WordPress
I’m migrating my existing WordPress run blog site at blog.arabx.com.au to a my new site ronaldbradford.com (which is not yet publically available) As part of this process I’ll be doing a number of upgrades/changes including:
How does ape transition to man? (or at least coder)
By drinking “Brainiac” at Google of course. All my photos from the Conference Here
Log Buffer #94: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
April 25th, 2008 – by Ronald Bradford Welcome to the 94th edition of Log Buffer , the weekly review of the database blogsphere. Adding to the list of usual database suspects, I have some more alternative considerations for our readers this week.
Making business decisions for the community and the enterprise
I was prompted following a few key words by Marten Mickos at the Sun Dinner on Wednesday evening, and subsequent one on one discussion with Marten, to post my thoughts of some significant news this week announced at the MySQL Conference.
Continued confusion in MySQL/Sun release policy
In review of some list posts today, I came across the Falcon Preview 6.0.5 downloads available from the MySQL Forge (even that is unclear, but the directory indicates this on the forge).
Media Blob Streaming getting a Google boost
The 2008 Google Summer of Code MySQL Projects are now available. MySQL has 14 listed projects, one of the ~190 different Open Source products listed. Unfortunately there is no summary to see the total number of projects being sponsored across all products.
The database frontier
Jay’s opening lines regarding the final MySQL Conference keynote speaker was: “I work with a lot of data. I think peta-bytes, maybe exa-bytes”. This was relating to Jacek Becla from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, giving his presentation on “The Science and Fiction of Petascale Analytics”.
The top 20 design tips for MySQL Enterprise data architects
The slides from my 2008 MySQL Conference Presentation can be downloaded from here .
Q: What a MySQL fellow does?
A: Maria, an ACID, MVCC engine that plans to be the default non-transactional and default transactional engine for MySQL. Presently development with a team of 6 people and plans of adding 2-3 developers the work on Maria should see the 1.
Tips from the MySQL Conference
What would be great if people could create a single line (one tip) from each talk and we could aggregate these for an executive summary for tech people. This was prompted from only a few minutes looking in on Baron Shwartz’s EXPLAIN presentation.
PrimeBase PBXT/Blob Streaming BoF – What you missed.
A small but committed group met at 8:30pm to hear more about our the plans from PrimeBase Technologies here at the 2008 MySQL Conference. Our discussion started in true MySQL form.
Scaling Wisdom
The 20 second summary from the Scaling MySQL – Up or Out? from our panel of experts at 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo. Paul Tuckfield from YouTube — The answers to everything is replication, you just have to rephrase the question.
What’s in a new name
Also in the MySQL Press Releases today but dated for tomorrow is Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.1 . I find the wording clearly a new language from my previous understanding — “pending general availability of MySQL™ 5.