Friday Jul 31, 2009

Web Stack 1.5 is now available.  

New in this release are the Web Stack Enterprise Manager, and support for fully relocatable IPS(5) based Update Center distribution. In addition, Web Stack 1.5 ships with the most recent evolutions of the open source releases including latest releases of Apache web server, MySQL 5.1 and more. At a glance, Web Stack 1.5 release includes the following:

Web Stack Enterprise Manager
Fully relocatable Update Center ips(5) image distribution
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.11
lighttpd 1.4.21
memcached 1.2.5
MySQL 5.0.67 and 5.1
PHP 5.2.9
Python 2.6
Ruby 1.8.7
Squid 2.7.STABLE5
Tomcat 6.0.18
GlassFish v2.1
Sun Continuous Integration Server 1.312

Web Stack page has more information including data sheet and links to download and documentation: 
http://sun.com/webstack
http://www.sun.com/software/webstack/get.jsphttp://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/Sun+GlassFish+Web+Stack+Documentation 

Tuesday Jul 21, 2009

Recently, the MySQL Community Team has introduced the MySQL Librarian.  In short, the MySQL Librarian is a collection of community-generated and cross referenced content related to MySQL.  It is a place where the community can collaboratively build and maintain MySQL content.  Guiseppe Maxia provides a good introduction to the MySQL Librarian at:

http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/introducing-librarian.html 

Visit the MySQL Librarian at:

http://dev.mysql.com/librarian/ 

Friday Jul 17, 2009

MySQL has adopted a new release model -- Milestone Releases.  In short, the goals of the new model for the MySQL Server are these:
  1. Deliver more frequent releases of the server with better predictability in terms of a release date
  2. Make new features and enhancements more quickly available
  3. Provide a model that encourages and rewards community contributions to the MySQL Server

Check out this article by Robin Schumacher, MySQL's Director of Product Management, to get more information

 

Thursday Jul 02, 2009

MySQL Connector/C++ is the latest connector for MySQL. This connector, which uses much the JDBC API patterns, was made available as a GA release in April of this year.  
In this Webinar, Giri Mandalika, Sun Microsystems Engineer and MySQL Connector/C++ expert, will show you how to use the new connector for maximum benefit. You will learn: 


- What Connector/C++ is and how to install it
- About the classes implemented by Connector/C+
- Connector/C++ driver's support for database transactions
- How to use the debug tracing capabilities of Connector/C++
- What is planned for Connector/C++ along with the roadmap to the future release(s)

 The webinar is scheduled for Thursday, July 09, 2009, 10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT, 6:00 pm GMT+1.  Register at:  http://mysql.com/quicklinks/webinars/connector-cpp.html