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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My brother Mark has put together a comparison of addslashes() alternatives over at his blog.  He starts off with:
I’ve seen a lot of people talking about mysql_real_escape_string() vs addslashes() vs addcslashes(). There seems to be a lot of real confusion about what these functions do (even with the php.net manual around), especially when it comes [...]

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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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SilverStripe is a PHP5-based CMS from down under (New Zealand!).  I had a chance to meet with Sigurd Magnusson, one of the project’s founders, and discuss the project’s history, current status as an open source project (BSD-licensed), and where it’s heading.  Have a listen!

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I’m sitting in on the Blob Streaming with MySQL session.  The project is at http://blobstreaming.org.  Coincidentally,  my brother had put together a proof of concept for streaming blobs from MySQL a few months ago before either of us heard about this project.
Why to put blobs in a database?  The biggest pro seems to be for [...]

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I’m seeing a large cross section of age groups represented at the MySQL conference.  The typical late teens through mid twenties are here, as expected, but I’m seeing a high number of people who are clearly older than that – many likely mid 40s or higher.  It could just be that database work is typically [...]

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The KickFire people stayed too long in the room before OBM, so I think they’re having to cut short the presentation – there were some display problems too which took some time.  Given that, the presentation has been good, if a bit rushed so far.  OBM has been developed in France for the past 10 [...]

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Met with some interesting people last night, and I’ll be posting the contents on webdevradio.com later.  Met with JasperReports people today and obm.org people.  OBM looks pretty powerful.  Currently sitting in the ‘MySQL sandbox’ presentation.

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Xaware.org looks prett slick.  I’m in a session with one of the xaware guys going through the process of using xaware.
OK – we had a long intro, but are finally seeing some screenshots, which look useful.  Xaware will bring value to scenarios with many complex XML documents.  The fewer or less complex your XML files [...]

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I just got here a few minutes ago and am sitting in in the ‘Future of MySQL’ with Robin Schumacher and Rob Young. Interesting – 5.1.24 RC announced at the conference yesterday. GA scheduled for end of Q2 – 2008. It’s close.
Some nice new things – job scheduling, row-based/hybrid replication, faster full-text [...]

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