Thank you Apple for releasing iTunes 6.0.3 which has the one AirTunes feature...
This little note in the “new features” section made my day: AirTunes Enhancement New in iTunes 6.Simultaneously stream the same song wirelessly to up to three home stereos or powered speakers ? using...
View ArticleUpcoming MySQL and Java Related Webcasts
Folks, I‘m going to be involved in (giving the first, available for questions on the second) webcasts on Java and MySQL related topics, so if you read this blog because you‘re interested in those...
View ArticleGetting the best performance and scalability from your Java applications...
In addition to some other talks in the Java track at the MySQL Users' Conference in April, I‘ll be giving a half day tutorial on scalability and performance optimization for Java applications deployed...
View ArticleMySQL at EclipseCon2006
Our community relations manager for the US region, Jay Pipes will be at EclipseCon 2006. See his blog for more information.The java developers here at MySQL all use Eclipse on a daily basis (including...
View ArticleIn Italy
The MySQL developers are meeting in Sorrento Italy this week to hammer out the final designs of what all will end up in MySQL-5.2 and beyond and trade best practices, and best of all take care of all...
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Springtime -- Time for Conferences
Here‘s a snapshot of my view out the office window…Yes, it‘s starting to look like springtime here in Chicago.That also means it‘s that time of year where I start travelling for conferences. This year...
View ArticleEvening's Java-related Entertainment at the MySQL UC
Had dinner with Joe Kotke from Feedburner and Gavin King at a local sushi place, and then came back to the hotel to kick off the Java BoF.Got a lot of interesting feedback from the small community of...
View ArticleConnector/J 5.0.3 Released (including XA Support)
Just a note to say that the first generally-available/production release of Connector/J 5.0 is now available for download.This branch has had the synchronization fixed up quite a bit (which should help...
View ArticleMySQL Connector Documentation Reworked
Our newest documentation team member, Martin "MC" Brown has finished the often thankless task of refreshing and expanding our API documentation, which includes Connector/J. I suggest you take a look,...
View ArticleIs Zimbra the Answer to my Family's Scheduling Nightmare?
It might seem odd, but I've been on the lookout for a decent e-mail system with web access and shared calendaring for quite some time for our family. I would've found it hard to believe even a few...
View ArticleA Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to replacing some IDE Cables (Watch...
I went to replace some hardware on a Linux server I had running here at the house, which happened to have Tao Linux 3 running on it, and sadly that mean bringing down a box that had 400 days uptime on...
View ArticleTalk About a "Fryasco"!
Now that Chicago finally has a Fry's (in Downers Grove), I do like "in-the-moment" shopping there from time-to-time, as they are often competitive enough on some hardware for a "satisfy the geek...
View ArticleThe Law of Unintended Consequences With Regards to Modern Living
The state I live in (Illinois), has decided that it should do emissions testing on all passenger vehicles (never mind the amount of pollutants that trucks, trains, etc. put into the air).I own a...
View ArticleSilly BitTorrent Developers (or the Unintended Consequences of Doing "The...
Those that know me, know that I‘m a little paranoid about backup automation around the house (because I‘m lazy, and that if it wasn‘t automated, it wouldn‘t get done).I‘m also a little paranoid about...
View ArticleMySQL Connector/J 5.1.0 Alpha with JDBC-4.0 Support Released
It's been a long time coming, but we've finally managed to get the first alpha release of Connector/J 5.1 out the door. The key thing in this release is support for JDBC-4.0,...
View ArticleA better way to emulate sequences in MySQL?
I've been following with interest Charles Lee's post over at the TSS about "Hibernate - A MySQL Enabler?". MySQL has always been well-supported by Hibernate, so it's good to see yet another project...
View ArticleMySQL Conference 2007 - Connector/J Sample Code
For those of you attending my JDBC 4.0 and MySQL session, you can find the sample code I'll be using in the Connector/J subversion...
View ArticleWriting Supportable Software
Yes, I know there are a lot of software development "top n" lists out there, and many dealing with writing "-[i/a]ble" software (extensible, maintainable, saleable, etc), but personally I wanted to get...
View ArticleVote Early and Often
I see we‘ve put up a QuickPoll where you can vote on what language you use when implementing applications that use MySQL. I know there are a lot of you out there using Java with MySQL, so go ahead and...
View ArticleCome see how to bend MySQL's JDBC driver in interesting and unusual ways at...
One of the more interesting features of MySQL‘s JDBC driver is the fact that much of it the functionality it has it alterable or outright replacable by the end user without changing any of its code.The...
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