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 just picked up Dreaming in Code from the library yesterday (or was it Friday evening?) and I’m about a third of the way through it.  I saw it at digitalguru.com when I was there a couple weeks ago, but didn’t know what it was about.  Then I read a review in the latest “strategy [...]

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My friend MPS just posted a quick note on his blog about the linux bash shell being able to auto-complete (or ‘tab-complete’) ant build files.  Interesting find, MPS.  Thanks!
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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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‘broken’ is a bit of a stretch, but not working 100%.  I posted this to the collanos forum with my workaround.
Searched for this topic but couldn’t find anything on it.
We’re trying to get collanos running in a mixed environment.  2 XP, 1 mac, 1 Mandriva and 2 Ubuntu (7.10).
The XP and Mandriva work fine.  Mac [...]

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I put up a new webdevradio podcast last week, day after Thanksgiving (or was it the day before?  I forget now).  Anyway, I’ve turned on the comments - apparently there was a bug that was stopping it from working - and am inviting more feedback and audio comments from listeners.  The podcast is short this [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write this for awhile, and saw a post (and the post it was in reply to) which made me put pen to paper, so to speak.  Writing about synaptic on ubuntu knowing the related packages to install for mysql, Mark Pilgrim wrote “It’s called dependency management, and it’s built into all [...]

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Ben Ramsey » Blog Archive » Microsoft Web Development Summit 2007
Ben’s part of a group of PHPers that have been invited to Microsoft to discuss PHP, MS, interoperability and other cool topics.  He’s meeting with some bigwigs like Scott Guthrie, which means MS is serious about this topic.  MS had a group of PHP [...]

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My friend MPS wrote today about a free UML tool he’s recently stumbled on - bouml. The couple big claims to fame I see are 1) cross platform and 2) low memory usage. I’ve gone with argouml a few times, but it always feels a bit clunky. I’m going to give this [...]

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Over at webdevradio, I’ve posted an hour long discussion I had with Keith Murphy, a local MySQL DBA.  He’s recently started at icontact.com, fast becoming one of the industry leaders in managed mailing lists and community communication tools.  I’ve known David Rasch, their CTO, for close to 2 years now, and have watched them grow [...]

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