No, it’s not from me or WebDevPub, but it looks good all the same.  It’s actually a continuation of the earlier MySQL Magazine, but with a larger focus, and is now a pay-for PDF, similar to JSMag and GroovyMag.
OSDBZine.net is put out bi-monthly from Keith Murphey, who had started the MySQL Magazine two years ago [...]

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Just woke up this morning to news that Oracle is buying Sun.  After cursing myself for not having bought some JAVA last week when it was in the 6 range (pre-market now at 9.10), I started thinking about what this might mean for MySQL.
About a year ago, Sun purchased MySQL.  Although a lot of hooha [...]

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I was browsing High Scalability this morning and came across this article which got me to thinking about something I’ve not seen discussed yet when talking about ‘cloud computing’ in all its forms: liability.  I’m not talking about downtime, though that’s an issue in and of itself.  Looking specifically at S3, Google’s bigtable, and other [...]

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This is the last in my MySQL conference series.  Brian Moon, author of Phorum and Sr Developer at Dealnews.com, sat down and gave a recap of his two presentations.  We have here nearly a full hour of his insights in to PHP/MySQL scalability, both with an app like Phorum and a more complex environment like [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do this some time, and finally found the time to do it – jobs.webdevradio.com is up and functional (though quite empty at this point!) One of the things I mentioned on my podcast (webdevradio.com) one more than one occasion is that I tend to attract recruiters. Rather than just [...]

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Every so often I try to use PDO under PHP5, and every time I run in to basic functionality problems with no ability to find out what’s going on under the hood.  A recent example:
$dbh = new PDO(’mysql:host=localhost;dbname=db’, “user”,”pass”);
$stmt = $dbh->prepare(”SELECT * FROM table where service_type = ? and name = ? “);
if ($stmt->execute(array(2,$short_name))) {
….
The [...]

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For anyone that has struggled with using PHP and MSSQL over the years, this one may come as some pleasant news (if you’re still in that situation).  Microsoft has put out a preview of “SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP” back in October 2007 (yeah, I just found out this morning!).  Ehh… not as impressed [...]

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Sun is acquiring MySQL

OK, well, I thought I’d be able to find a few more interesting tidbits, but these two are interesting enough to me for a Wednesday morning.  Obviously the Sun/MySQL thing is big – will they use the acronym SPAM for Solaris/PHP/Apache/MySQL?  I claim “first post” on inventing that acronym, although I’m sure [...]

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I recently inherited a project.  My primary goal is to make it portable to the extent that it can run on another webserver setup.  This is a PHP4/LAMP system, but the people I’m getting it from didn’t write it themselves, and can’t spend the time to dig in to it and make it able to [...]

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The codemash organizers have graciously donated a free pass to the upcoming Codemash conference to be given away to one lucky webdevradio.com listener.  To enter in to the drawing, listen to the codemash episode interview podcast on webdevradio with Jim Holmes, follow the instructions, and hope your name is drawn.

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