Tuesday March 17, 2009
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New Sun Contributor Signatories for MySQL
I just checked the "Sun Contributor Agreement" (SCA) signatories list, and there are already 11 people who have signed the contributor agreement with an intent to contribute to MySQL. Among the signatories, you will also notice Paul McCullagh of PrimeBase/PBXT fame. (To learn about how to submit your SCA paperwork, see here.) Signing the SCA with an intent to contribute to any given Sun-sponsored open-source project would also suffice when it comes to contributing to any other Sun-sponsored open-source project. So, as an example, Nils Goroll is both an OpenSolaris and MySQL contributor. (See Nils' OpenSolaris profile and see MySQL bug id 7417.) Of course, it goes without saying that you do not need to be an OpenSolaris contributor to be a MySQL contributor. My intent here was simply to show how signing the SCA helps the contributor to reach out, interact and contribute w.r.t. any Sun-sponsored projects. The SCA signatories list, of course, makes all of this much more plain.
2009-03-17 23:01:36.0 --
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Contributing Code to MySQL -- Some Simple Guidelines
If you would like to contribute to MySQL development, you can read the relevant top-level page on the MySQL Forge. This page has some useful links to various forms of contributing to MySQL, including contribution of code to MySQL. (The MySQL|Sun team have recently simplified some of these pages in order to make them more useful to community members and potential contributors.)
Note that after some simple paperwork submitted to Sun ("Sun Contributor Agreement" or "SCA"), any signatory can contribute to any Sun-sponsored open-source project, including to MySQL. It is a common parctice to require initial paperwork to clarify rights to the contributed work. This practice is also used by other open-source communities such as the Apache Software Foundation. It is worth quoting, from the the master document, that
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Student Central -- A Sun for Students
If you are a student and want to learn more about Sun, the place to go is Student Central. According to marketing program manager, Colin Cupp,
I took a peek and I agree with him. Years ago, when I first joined Sun, I had advocated for audience-based web pages, and now we are seeing that happen more often. It is truly wonderful!
2008-09-29 15:35:06.0 --
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LinuxWorld Expo?
I dropped by "LinuxWorld Expo" in San Francisco on Tuesday, and I think the only thing worth noting is the PgDay. Five years ago, when I attended the same Expo, it had a completely different spirit, with a lot more participation by the main Linux vendors and a large variety of software companies. (Other references: PostgreSQL on Solaris and on OpenSolaris.)
2008-08-05 23:14:32.0 --
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OSCon Presentations
Until O'Reilly gets the slides for OSCon 2008 posted, you can find some of the slide-sets and more at SlideShare. Sun Microsystems was a platinum sponsor of the conference and had some free, slickly-published guerrilla booklets on operating systems and OpenSolaris, and several un-conference presentations at their booth, including some amazing presentations on DTrace and ZFS. I was also happy to hear the Erleng packages will be available directly as an OpenSolaris IPS. All this, until O'Reilly posts the presentation for public viewing.
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Who Dons the Java DB T-Shirt
2008-05-08 23:41:34.0 --
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Tolven Health PostgreSQL Benchmark
Tolven Health has published a benchmarking study with PostgreSQL on Solaris. The purpose of the study was to "to assess the scalability and performance characteristics of the Tolven open source healthcare information technology solution and to provide guidance for customers with regards to hardware requirements for enterprise, state, regional, and country wide deployments."
2008-04-25 16:38:35.0 --
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Community Dinner
Giuseppe Maxia blogs about the MySQL community dinner with some special guests in attendance.
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Open Source Databases on the Rise
2008-04-08 19:15:34.0 --
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OSDB Events
The best way to learn about major open source databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) is to attend developer and user conferences. Sun Microsystems sponsors many of these conferences and events. (This April, you can catch Sun folks attending the MySQL conference in Santa Clara, and in May, you can catch them at PGCon in Ottawa.) Finally, if you're interested in Sun technologies and databases, you should become a member of the OpenSolaris Databases Community and start contributing.
2008-03-20 01:06:17.0 --
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Buying PostgreSQL support got easier
Buying support for PostgreSQL on Solaris has become much easier. Just click "Buy Now" on the PostgreSQL support page and you'll be on your way.
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Data History
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James Gosling, Monty Widenius, David Axmark, and Brian Aker on Sun's Acquisition of MySQL
2008-01-18 13:57:54.0 --
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Sun To Acquire MySQL
2008-01-16 07:06:08.0 --
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Blogging from Berkeley
Blogging from Berkeley, David Van Couvering, a database technologist at Sun Microsystems, has recently written some pieces examining PostgreSQL on Solaris. (I certainly look forward to even more such pieces, or maybe some pieces on migration from Oracle or MySQL. I think there are some interesting topics to explore in those areas when it comes to tooling.) For example, take a look at his posts on "NetBeans, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL on Solaris"and on "Starting PostgreSQL as a service in Solaris Express ."
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Same Desktop Everywhere -- From the San Francisco Bay Area to Bangalore
I'm working on the same desktop I used last week in the Bay Area, now on a "SunRay 170" here in Sun's Bangalore drop-in center. (Later models of Sun Ray client are also available—a great tool for all global corporations.) Now, I should wonder why I lugged my laptop across the globe?
2007-11-11 21:15:56.0 --
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Acting Talent
Observe that acting and dancing talent can spring up almost anywhere ...
2007-11-06 15:10:04.0 --
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Where is this?
Where is this?
2007-10-18 09:58:14.0 --
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Shoal Beyond Glassfish V2
I've already written about the early days of what became Shoal, and you've probably already seen the good news of Shoal shipping with Glassfish V2 and about how it provides dynamic clustering and in-memory replication (see the Aquarium). Here, I simply want to point to this great summary by Mohamed Abdelaziz of Shoal development activities one can eagerly anticipate and drive. It is great to see Shoal move forward with such great force and verve.
2007-10-08 14:05:28.0 --
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Another Mode
Check out Thorleif Wiik's blog for another mode of going!
2007-10-08 13:05:26.0 --
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