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  • Teaching OpenSolaris

    While looking for some information on OpenSolaris in preparation for my talk this week I came across some excellent material providing backgrounds on OpenSolaris for both instructors and students. The material is part of the Curriculum Development…

  • DimDim and MySQL University

    Stop the press! My boss, Stefan Hinz, has just started blogging, with his first post here: Using NetBeans with MySQL. So who is he? Well, Stefan is the guy that keeps the rest of us in the docs team in check and makes sure we do what we’re asked, …

  • How to analyze memory leaks on Windows

    We use valgrind to find memory leaks in MySQL on Linux. The tool is a convenient, and often enlightening way of finding out where the real and potential problems are location. On Windows, you dont have valgrind, but Microsoft do provide a free nat…

  • Book: Intellectual Property and Open Source – the solution to IANAL

    I’m reading Intellectual Property and Open Source by Van Lindberg at the moment, and despite being about a relatively dry topic, I must admit that it’s a fascinating read. Van Lindberg introduces the book by talking about the comments that end up …

  • MySQL University – quick survey

    MySQL University has been running for the last 18 months, and we’ve covered a wide range of topics, from the internals of MySQL right up to Amazon’s EC2, using MySQL in the Solaris/OpenSolaris Webstack and a description of the forthcoming MySQL On…

  • General Purpose vs Specialized systems

    Yesterday at Computerworld I talked about the X4150 and how it fits into a general purpose piece of hardware that can easily be redeployed and reused. Interestingly I’ve just found this item in my blog post queue from way back in 2006, Jonathan Sc…

  • Wanted: GUI developer for MySQL Enterprise Monitor

    One of the great things about working on great products is that you get to meet such intelligent and interesting people. I can apply that to everybody that I work with, but there are some teams where not only are they working on great products, th…

  • Automatic example generator

    I wonder whether there is a market for creating an automated example generator for different projects. I’m just doing a piece on XML schemas and would love to be able to create a ready to run sample of SOAP and WSDL XML files without having to act…

  • More MySQL UC 08 Videos

    Hopefully you can’t get enough of the UC08 videos (and thanks to Sheeri for the link with the full Jonathan keynote video), so Zack has managed to get some most posted. This morning, we learned what it meant to be a pirate in terms of patents, cop…

  • MySQL UC 08 Keynote Videos

    I’m pleased to say that I was able to see these in the flesh, but if you aren’t lucky enough to be here (or just want to watch them again), Zack has posted up videos on YouTube of the opening keynote presentations: MySQL Conference Keynote 2008 – …