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Sign up for a white paper on Sun's newest x64 rackmount servers that combine the power of a new generation of Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 ("Nehalem") series with Sun's system engineering expertise.

The paper, that has information about Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Server Architectures, also gives you the technical specifications needed to evaluate these systems for use in your datacenter.

Additional details include:

• · Feature comparisons of the Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 servers

• · Information on supported operating systems, Sun ILOM, and built-in system management features

• · Optimization guides for memory bandwidth/capacity and flash (SSD), including links to flash resources

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Questions? Comments! Please contact SunFire_Nehalem@sun.com.

For those ISVs developing and deploying web applications, we wanted to pass along a friendly reminder about a technical webinar happening tomorrow focusing on the performance and scalability improvements of MySQL 5.4.

As Sona Pillai discussed in this space a few weeks back, the in depth webinar will explore several MySQL 5.4 benchmarks including Sysbench results on CMT and Nehalem systems as well as an OLTP workload derived from an industry-standard benchmark. 

Performance expert Allan Packer, a Principal Engineer at Sun and Jimmy Guerrero a Sun Senior Product Marketing Manager will be your presenters tomorrow Thursday, May 21st at 3PM Pacific time.  If you haven’t already signed up, do so here!

This June, Sun will be hosting a series of half-day educational sessions throughout the eastern portion of the Unites States intended for developers and technologists interested in expanding the application of Sun technologies in their day-to-day development.  JavaFX, GlassFish, and MySQL are the focus, as individually these technologies can help you deliver fast performance, high reliability, ease of use and dramatic cost savings with your next development project.

Though attractive individually, JavaFX, MySQL and GlassFish, together provide an excellent solution for quickly developing and deploying web applications that are not only secure and reliable, but also scale to meet increasing demand and are highly responsive to user requests.

Event Schedule (follow link for registration details):

June 9 - Burlington, MA
June 10 - New York, NY
June 11 - Somerset, NJ
June 12 - Hollywood, FL
June 16 - Rochester, NY
June 17 - McLean, VA
June 18 - King of Prussia, PA
June 19 - Columbus, OH
June 23 - Chicago, IL
June 24 - Atlanta, GA
June 25 - Raleigh, NC
June 26 - Cleveland, OH 

Send questions or comments to east_field_marketing@sun.com.

What do companies do to provide employee access through mergers and acquisitions? How do they store identity data for partners? How is data consolidated?

And how can you do all of these things while keeping costs down?

Sun can give you the answers and Sun can help.

Join us. Learn about how Sun offers the only high-performance directory server with essential data services including proxy, virtual directory and data distribution at the webinar on Enterprise Productivity with Directory Services.

Join in. Following the presentation of 40 minutes, you can participate!! Ask your specific question, request precise explanation on how Sun's Directory Services can fit into your enterprise strategy.

Nick Wooler, Product Line Manager for Sun's Directory products, Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) and OpenDS will direct the webinar on Wednesday, May 20 2009, at 10am Pacific Time and 1pm Eastern Time.

Questions? Comments? Please send a message to SWI_Webinar_Inquiries@sun.com

Register Now »

Part of the reasoning behind MySQL’s huge popularity is the vibrant and diverse community that supports it.  With that, if you’re using the world’s most popular open source database to develop and deploy applications and wondering where you can find additional resources, you’re in luck! Technical articles and documentation are available at your finger tips on topics ranging from the latest MySQL release details to specific development content for various languages whether it be PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java / JDBC, or .NET/C#/Visual Basic. So stop by the MySQL Developer Zone and gain access to the technical knowledge you need.

In a previous post I started talking about going through the full life cycle of an real and complex PHP application (In our case Olio) 

In that previous post we saw how to get Olio sources, and how to intall Faban to drive load.

Now we will get to the main part which is using Olio sources in NetBeans to build and deploy the system.

Import the source files into NetBeans.

The goal of all this is for me to test how I can use an existing PHP code in NetBeans 6.5, so now that I have the sources, I need to import them.[Read More]

Interested in learning how to scale your Rails applications with JRuby and GlassFish?  Good news, on May 19th and 20th, Sun will be hosting a boot camp featuring top JRuby and GlassFish technologists.  And the great news, day one of this boot camp is positively free!  It’ll detail the benefits of using JRuby and GlassFish for your Rails applications in addition to showing basic integration and configuration practices .  Day two features a technical deep dive that will help you to become a power user equipped with various tricks, guidelines, and strategies.  No doubt, it’ll help you take your Rails apps to the next level!  The cost of day two is $299. Register here.

Details:
Day One (FREE) - May 19th, 2009 - 1pm-4pm PT
Day Two ($299) - May 20th, 2009 - 10am-4pm PT
Bentley Reserve, 301 Battery St, San Francisco, CA
Free lunch and beverages will be provided on Day Two.

For greater details and an agenda go here.

Exactly two weeks from today Sun will present a technical webinar that will give an overview of the scalability and performance improvements of MySQL 5.4.

Our presenters, Allan Packer and Jimmy Guerrero, will explore several benchmarks around MySQL 5.4, including Sysbench results on CMT and Nehalem systems and an OLTP workload derived from an industry-standard benchmark.

MySQL 5.4 has much faster response times (90%), and scalability up to 16-way x86 servers and 64-way CMT servers. So if you are interested in learning about the performance improvements in MySQL 5.4 and related benchmarks please join us on Thursday, May 21 2009 at 3pm San Francisco time and 6pm Boston time.

Sign up here.

P.I.E. is an acronym for Paranormal Investigations Experts and represents a network founded by Baron Rude and Hector Macchiato to research both the paranormal and the unexplained.

With that, Baron and Hector offer JUMP theory, which states that every great technological, scientific, or agricultural advancement throughout history has been preceded by unexplained phenomenon. With research grounding their theory about these strange visitations, Baron and Hector think recent sightings suggest that another event is about to occur, signaling a change in mankind’s direction. The P.I.E. Wiki offers more.

Certainly, strange things are afoot, as video on the P.I.E. Network You Tube channel proves.  The oddness on the P.I.E. guy’s Flickr photostream also lends support to the idea that perhaps Baron and Hector are onto something.  P.I.E. Theory is big . . . no matter where you are, there’s info. . .like Facebook and MySpace.

But, we’ll let you in on a secret, P.I.E. Theory is an "alternate reality" online game built completely with JavaFX RIA technology. How cool is that? You can play - just go to the site, download your "paranormal tools"  (JavaFX SDK, and Netbeans IDE!) and lend a hand to all the amateur paranormal thrill seekers who have already taken the P.I.E. challenge.  Just don’t blame us if otherworldly things start happening.  We warned you.  Right?

Following on from the recent series of Java events hosted by James Gosling, we are holding a developer workshop with John Pampuch, Director, Software Engineering in the Java Platform Group at Sun.

John leads the engineering teams responsible for the Java Virtual Machine in Java SE. This includes just-in-time compilers, garbage collectors, and run-time components. He also manages Sun's real-time and embedded Java SE development.

The workshop will cover

• Java 6, JDK7 roadmap
• Java SE for Business
• Java Real-Time System
• JavaFX

There is more information and how to register for the Java for Business Developer's Workshop here. In addition you can see the presentations by James Gosling and others at the earlier developer event or view a short introduction to JavaFX. 

NetBeans 6.5 comes now with the PHP support, and OpenSolaris looks like a great development and deployment platforme for AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) developers.

In order to confirm this (or not) I'm going to go through the full lifecycle of a real, thus complex PHP application.

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For those looking to stay updated on the latest and greatest with MySQL, check out an interview with Sun's VP of MySQL and Software Infrastructure Karen Tegan Padir, featured on Ostatic.  The interview spans a range of topics related to the MySQL database including highlights from the MySQL Conference and a preview version of MySQL 5.4.  MySQL's newest version boasts gains in performance and scalability for applications right-out-of-the-box. The preview version is now available for download.  Another portion of the interview talks about the viral adoption of open source technologies and highlights this phenomenon with interesting anecdotes from enterprises and web properties alike.  Check it out.

You can speed up application performance, simplify your datacenter, and see cost and energy savings with Sun's Open Network System for MySQL. Featuring the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series with new Flash-ready options these systems are the industry's only x64 platforms that are optimized to take full advantage of the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series.

Learn more at the Web seminar that will take place Tuesday, May 12 2009 at 4pm Boston and New York time (1pm San Francisco).

Register to boost and reduce!

To learn more or access more information to help you improve your MySQL performance, check out sun.com/mysqlx86.

Was last week’s MySQL Users Conference so chocked full of activities and energy that you missed certain sessions?  Or were you begrudgingly not in attendance for the week’s festivities?  Either way, we have great news for you! Catch up on everything you missed with this video archive featuring keynote presentations from this year's conference.

ISVs might be interested in checking out Mark Callaghan’s session entitled, "This is Not a Web App: The Evolution of a MySQL Deployment at Google."  Or maybe check out Karen Padir’s, "State of the Dolphin" address.  Another highlight  is Mark Madsen's presentation on "Using Open Source BI in the Real World."

In an effort to help ISVs gain access to the resources they need, we wanted to pass along an insightful tutorial from the Sun Developer Network that tackles Developing MySQL Database Applications with PHP.  With a focus on database connectivity from a PHP script, the series targets application developers who are new to the development of MySQL database apps with PHP.

This initial installment, in a four part series, looks at using the MySQL improved extension, mysqli, and also provides simple examples for connecting, inserting, and retrieving data from a MySQL database.

Overall, the article highlights:

•    Access MySQL With PHP Database Extensions
•    Major PHP API Offerings for MySQL
•    Which PHP Database Extension to Use?
•    Create the City Table in the test Database for Code Examples
•    Use the MySQL Improved Extension, mysqli
•    Install PHP With the mysqli Extension
•    Test the MySQL Database Connectivity Using the PHP mysqli Extension
•    Work With Prepared Statements
•    Links For More Information

Enjoy!