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Hey Jake, what’s your problem
So, I’m checking out the upcoming weather for the MySQL Conference for next week, and Yahoo Weather throws me a 404 Not Found error from their own site. Interesting, what I did particularly like was the URL, it had jake/404.
Read moreWhere’s the News?
It’s been six weeks since the completion of the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems . In this time, on the MySQL News and Press Releases there has only been one (1) Press Release here .
Read moreThe pursuit of a synchronous world
Well at least your MySQL database world. As Paul eluded to , PrimeBase Technologies has a project to provide synchronous replication for MySQL in a High Availability environment. It is more then an idea, there is a plan.
Read moreSupport the MySQL Community Photo Day
Updated On good advice from Sheeri I made a few comments clearer. It has been proposed that the integral “MySQL Community Photo Day” be on Thursday April 17 2008, the final day of the MySQL Users Conference.
Read moreReplication++, Replication 2.0, Replication.Next
There has been some discussion recently regarding the death of MySQL Read Replication starting with Brian Aker and then Farhan , Arjen and Paul have all chimed in. Whatever you want to call it, the next generation of replication approach is clearly on the agenda of the industry leaders and pack followers.
Read moreThe MySQL SandBox
This week I’d expected to hear good friend Giuseppe (CCO) Maxia speak about MySQL SandBox at the Hamburg MySQL April Meetup . This is product I’ve thought about using, wanted to use, but just never got to the point to using.
Read moreStorage Engines at the MySQL Conference
I’ll be following closely the progression of Storage Engines available in the MySQL Database server, well soon to be available when 5.1 gets to GA (hopefully by end of Q2 which is what we have been told).
Read moreWait listing for Google App Engine
TechCrunch announced Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine so I jumped over to http://code.google.com/appengine to register, but I’ve been added to a waitlist. Reading more I see only 10,000 developers were initially allowed to register, I wonder how long that took to fill up.
Read moreWhen is a website useless?
Well this is one way. Time Magazine has so much advertising garbage, the page on my Macbook shows only 16 words of meaningful article text on the page. Those being almost rather useless as well:
Read moreHamburg MySQL Meetup – Apr 2008
Tonight’s Hamburg MySQL Meetup was a packed room of 60-70 people at Sun in Hamburg. The most I’ve seen @ a MySQL Meetup across three cities, countries, continents and years (my first Oct 5, 2004).
Read moreA heartfelt apology
While I mentioned in Not Stuck , “thanks to those concerned”, perhaps I did not illustrate clearly that I was suitability moved by the genuine concern of close friends regarding my plight, and I did really appreciate the comments and initial feedback.
Read moreUsing Vodafone UMTS in Germany
These instructions apply to the Novatel MC950D UMTS USB modem running under Mac OS/X 10.5 (Note these instructions do not apply to OS/X 10.4) 1. Software Installation You first need to install the software as supplied on CD.
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