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Attending MySQLcon, round 4
I will be at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara in a few weeks in the middle of April. This will be my fourth time there. Gear6 is going to be there as a sponsor, and some of my coworkers will be presenting, and I will probably share some stage time with them as they do ( Read more... ) -
New Job. Director of Community Development at Gear6
Many people noticed my tweet just over a week ago that I tendered my resignation at Sun Microsystems. Many people asked me "what next?". Here is my What Next:
Today is the first day of my new job at Gear6, as the Director of Community Development.
In part, this means that I will be doing for Gear6 what Jay and then Dups used to do for MySQL ( Read more... ) -
A working "progress bar" for a huge ALTER TABLE
My friend Gabriel came up with a working "progress bar" for ALTER TABLE. Until MySQL / Drizzle can do this "natively", this is a pretty neat trick:http://gabrielcain.com/blog/2009/08/05/mysql-alter-table-and-how-to-observe-progress/(Untitled)
Drizzle. You can integrate it into your architecture.
MySQL / Postgres / Oracle. You have to integrate your architecture to fit them.OScon so far
Sunday morning, in the wee hours of the morning, while packing, I discovered that I didn't know where either my DL or my Passport is. After spending an hour searching, I gave up, and decided to throw myself on the mercy of the TSA. Which I did at the airport. The TSA supervisor checked my credit cards, FlyClear card, corporate ID card, and ( Read more... )Review: Erlang books
The fine folks at O'Reilly sent me reviewer copy of two books on Erlang
- Erlang Programming: A Concurrent Approach to Software Development by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson
- Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong.
jHeidi and Drizzle
While at the MySQL Conference last week, I stopped at the booth for HeidiSQL, and spoke with Bill Culp, who is the developer of jHeidi, about Drizzle.
A few days ago, he emailed me, saying that he had spent the time, and now jHeidi supports Drizzle.
So now we have a multiplatform GUI for monitoring, browsing, and querying a Drizzle database
