http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxdrCDRCKuM is a case study of MySQL made available by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
The comments that I posted there did not appear for some reason. So here are a couple of comments:
I am going to deliver a lecture on MySQL with a similar target audience- undergraduate students via EDUSAT in November
The comments that I posted there did not appear for some reason. So here are a couple of comments:
- The one stop resource for MySQL would be http://www.mysql.com and *not* http://www.mysql.org
- A useful reference for Storage Engines would be http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/storage-engines.html
I am going to deliver a lecture on MySQL with a similar target audience- undergraduate students via EDUSAT in November
I didn't watch the video, but I would agree that the one stop resource for MySQL is at mysql.org as opposed to mysql.com. Why? Because mysql.org redirects to the DevZone (dev.mysql.com), and that's where the documentation, technical docs, and so on are kept...
Posted by Colin Charles on September 20, 2008 at 05:51 PM IST #
Depends on what you are looking at. IMO, I would always prefer to direct someone to the 'home' of a product. Besides, there is *no* URL http://www.mysql.org. That it redirects is another matter!
Posted by Amit on September 20, 2008 at 07:37 PM IST #
The "home" of the product is filled with commercial information that doesn't apply to developers (I routinely tell folk to concentrate on forge.mysql.com and dev.mysql.com). We always wanted mysql.org to redirect to the community site of MySQL, and while this is the forge, we figured we won't change it to the ever popular DevZone. It has redirected ever since we've owned mysql.org
Complaining about "redirects" seems trivial. That's like comparing planetmysql.com or planetmysql.org... Duh!
Posted by Colin Charles on September 20, 2008 at 07:49 PM IST #
Well, it would be fair to say that we are just having 2 different perspectives. So let us have mutual respect :-)
No one's complaining about "redirection", not me!
Posted by Amit on September 20, 2008 at 08:00 PM IST #
Colin wrote,
"Complaining about "redirects" seems trivial. That's like comparing planetmysql.com or planetmysql.org... Duh!"
Lol... :D
Posted by N, Varun on September 20, 2008 at 08:28 PM IST #