A number of multinational companies make a valuable investment into the knowledge economy through skill transfer. Companies such as Oracle and Cisco Systems are two examples of companies that have programs to prepare students and graduates for the new knowledge economy.
Cisco Systems has a world wide program for training program called the Networking […]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Reinvesting into Skill Development
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Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL
MySQL, a popular database system for web application (more than 10 million of installations) announces today that it has been acquired by Sun Microsystems for US $1 billion.
MySQL has been one of the essential component for running web applications like Wordpress, Wikipedia and other huge content management systems (i.e Joomla, Drupal).Most people (web developers especially) […]
Live Blogging Oracle OpenWorld 2008
Bookmark this page for continuous coverage of Oracle OpenWorld events and happenings. I’m planning to keep this live blog open until the end of the conference on Thursday. Feel free to send in your comments and questions during live blog sessions. Also, follow me on Twitter for updates when the live blog is in standby […]
MySQL and SSL
I have been setting up a few mysql servers with SSL support for replication .
I used the script provided in the the official mysql documentation for creating the ssl certificates cause I needed to do it on more then one server and it made more sense to use it then actually creating each certificate […]
The Zeitgeist shows…
This is a picture with a lot of impact. This was from Seedcamp. The question asked was “What tools will you use?”.
MÃ¥rten pointed this out to us at the opening speeches at the Sun Database Group Developer’s Meeting. Its interesting to see what technologies are used. MySQL is by far, the most popular database server […]
“Open Source” images
I just read a news item that Picasa is giving users the ability to use creative-commons licenses for their images. The original news story is here (note that Nick in the story’s comments is not me):
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/picasa_web_albums_goes_cc.html
Perhaps we should explore this as potential future source for object recognition datasets?
Andrii Nikiti’s son Needs Our Help
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(Reposted from Zack Urlocker’s blog)
Andrii Nikitin, one of the MySQL support engineers located in Ukraine, has asked for help from MySQLers and so I’m sharing this information to the community at large. Andrii’s son Ivan, who is 2 1/2, is in need of a bone marrow transplant operation. This will require […]
Null Safe Not Equal Comparison in Mysql
Again, not python, but useful to know:
mysql> select 1 NULL;
+—-+
| 1 NULL |
+—-+
| NULL |
+—-+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select NOT 1 NULL;
+——+
| NOT 1 NULL |
+——+
| 1 |
+——+
1 row in set […]
Asynchronous Database Access in Ruby
These past few weeks have brought forward a few interesting developments in the Ruby database access layer. First, the guys at espace announced Neverblock: a Ruby 1.9 library which makes heavy use Fibers and non-blocking IO (RubyInside and InfoQ have the scoop). And shortly thereafter we saw the announcement of MySQLPlus (also a direct result […]
3 Easy ways to import large MySQL database
From time to time, we get into situation when we would like to know just how-to import big database in phpmyadmin?
The problem is that most of the php.ini - the PHP configuration file on server (that is your host, if you are on shared hosting) is limiting maximum file upload size to 2mb.
In that case […]