C/C++ | 2010-03-08
Happiness is a Warm CloudAlthough a few folks knew about where I and many of the Sun Drizzle team had ended up, we’ve waited until today to “officially” tell folks what’s up. We — […]
Drizzle | 2010-01-06
Describing Drizzle’s Development ProcessYesterday, I was working on a survey that Selena Deckelmann put together for open source databases. She will be presenting the results at Linux.conf.au this month. One of the questions […]
MySQL | 2009-12-15
Great Job, MySQL Engineering!Just a quick note to congratulate MySQL engineering on their next milestone release, MySQL 5.5. There seem to be some excellent new features, some of which have been hotly requested […]
MySQL | 2009-11-24
A Laptop for Developers without paying The Windows TaxI find it amazing that the U.S. Department of Justice can continue to cover its eyes and ears while Microsoft is allowed to exert its monopolistic power over all hardware […]
Drizzle | 2009-11-18
Macro Support in new Drizzle Client Console?Hi all! I’ve been reading through the requested features for the new client on the wiki here: Proposed Client Features BOOTS Console API Design I think all the stuff on […]
Thought Tree | 2009-11-10
Somebody in Marketing Needs to be FiredSitting here chatting with Padraig and listening to the television. A commercial comes on for Aciphex. Yep, the name is pronounced “Ass Effects”. Unbelievable. Somebody’s marketing department should be, well, […]
C/C++ | 2009-11-10
Sneak Peek – Drizzle Transaction Log and INFORMATION_SCHEMAI’ve been coding up a storm in the last couple days and have just about completed coding on three new INFORMATION_SCHEMA views which allow anyone to query the new Drizzle […]
C/C++ | 2009-11-04
The Great EscapeThis week, I am working on putting together test cases which validate the Drizzle transaction log‘s handling of BLOB columns. I ran into an interesting set of problems and am […]
Drizzle | 2009-10-29
A Month of MilestonesI’m finding myself smiling today. I lay in bed last night thinking about a number of milestones that this month marks for me. October 15th marked four months since the […]
Open Source | 2009-10-28
If Ever There Was a Sure-fire Tenant…My wife and I have a double that we rent out to two couples. Luckily, one of these couples has been in one side of the double for a couple […]