Posted on 24/4/2006, 4:16 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
So the last few days have been randomly fun. I’ve been to Fry’s several times to grab random bits and bobs. Things I don’t need, but now have. Hung out with Mikal and Stewart quite a bit, which is always fun. Had lots to drink, and have gotten some work done!
All that aside, today was reserved mostly for our CEO’s house party. It was highly fun, there was drink, great food, and even song!
Stewart by the bar
There was Foster’s beer! Haha. Go Australian export beer. And Morgan was caught having some. I got to meet so many MySQLers its going to be hard to remember them all. I’m sure by the time the UC is over, all will be well.
Kaj, my boss. I like this “portrait” of him quite well
Anyways, a picture tells a thousand words, so view the MySQL Staff Party 2006 photoset.
Posted on 21/4/2006, 3:00 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
It took me just under five minutes to signup for a T-mobile hotspot account, so I could send my mail. Username already chosen, form resets itself. Find credit card, re-enter information. Submit. Need to fill in the expiry date (which displays fine). Form resets. Repeat.
Funny that the immigration official today at SFO had heard of both Linux and MySQL. He’s apparently some form of online gamer, and has written a few PHP apps himself. I was, to say the least, highly impressed.
Something I noticed as funny. All the baggage carousels had Oracle ads. Must be something Oracle related happening here…
Anyways, I’m still waiting for Arjen to come out. Stewart I know is already at the hotel, and JD should arrive in due time. In the meantime, I’ll attend to mail, and upload Flickr photos at 250KB/s (yes, a marked improvement from the 30KB/s cap I have at home in Australia).
Posted on 10/4/2006, 10:08 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Caught bits of Freaky Friday, and added it to the to-do list. What was fun was She’s the Man. Realized something about myself recently: I seem to be more familiar with the cinemas in Hobart as well as the local grocery outlet (Coles, if you must know) there. Its quite shocking.
I decided to play with ISPConfig. It seemed to stop installation when it couldn’t find the “quota” package. Set it up. Add a new “hosting plan”. The frames break, so I hit the X, and it logs me out. Not very intuitive. To get things going, you need to create a client (its kind of a bummer, if I’m the client for all the sites, right?). Then I try to add a web host, for an email user, and find that the username comes up, as *drumroll*, web1_username!
So upon realizing that this wasn’t the solution for me, I attempted to go ahead and uninstall it. Only to be faced with this funny error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /root/ispconfig/uninstall on line 149
Connected successfully
So, I guess this is what a partial deinstallation feels like. Does anyone know what the security implications of running an app like ISPConfig will garner?
Posted on 4/4/2006, 4:38 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
Ruby on Rails is hot technology. Its got the essence of Web 2.0 written all over it, right?
Seeing that it supports MySQL out of the box, we like it. We of course want to enhance our support of the Ruby on Rails team, and make sure the RoR users have a rocking time.
As a consequence of this, I’ve been playing with RoR, and will definitely write up more thoughts here at some stage. This is just a quick note to mention that I’d be going to the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, from April 22-23 2006. Anyone else plan on being there?
Posted on 3/4/2006, 1:27 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
No, we didn’t forget about Make MySQL 5.1 Rock contest. We were just migrating our bugs database, and going through a little teething problems everytime a Monday hit! (yes, I’ve not been taking them for myself in the last two weeks!) The good news is that, you get an additional fortnight to win yourself an iPod Nano.
This week’s winner is none other than Mike Kruckenberg. He’s submitted a bunch of bug reports, in relation to MySQL Cluster (another hot topic these days), and one that caught my eye was a critical server crash (mysql#18603). He also blogs about his day spent with MySQL 5.1, which is a fun read.
If that’s not enough, Mike is also an invited member of the highly esteemed MySQL Guilds, and he’s co-written an excellent book: Pro MySQL. If you haven’t already read it, go buy it already.
Thanks for making MySQL 5.1 rock, you deserve the iPod Nano!
