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New project: tribily, server monitoring as a service

OlinData Blog Administrator — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:23:41 +0000

This is an update to tell you all that this blog is no longer being updated. OlinData is now fully focussed on it’s new project Tribily. Tribily provides affordable server monitoring as a service, we really recommend you to go and check it out!

Preparing for the future: MySQL conference 2009

walterheck — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:46:40 +0000

Here is a list of talks at the MySQL user conference that focus on new and upcoming features in MySQL. I will try to attend most of these myself, although I have some certifications to acquire and other topics of interest. It’s almost like I would like to split myself in multiple threads so I [...]

Getting excited for the MySQL Conference 2009

walterheck — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:34:57 +0000

I finally received confirmation that I’m attending the MySQL Conference 2009, yay! I didn’t really dive deep into all the conference has to offer just because I didn’t want to get too excited and then not be able to go. Now that I do know I’m going, I’m full on with excitement and thought I [...]

Using the google graph API with MySQL stored functions

walterheck — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:42:17 +0000

After reading Alex’s blog post on generating graphs using google’s graph API I decided to do something similar for MySQL. I created a stored function that takes a height, width and a graph type from the list of available graph types in the graph API. The function returns a url to a google graph that [...]

Video interview with Jack Adams at #fosdem

walterheck — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:32:48 +0000

This was an interview Jack Adams did with me at the MySQL/OpenSolaris booth at FOSDEM last weekend. Jack adams is an OpenSolaris mascotte, look around on YouTube for more funny interviews with him.

Semi-live blog from Q&A with Sun/MySQL VP of community

walterheck — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:37:11 +0000

Here’s my sort of transcript of the most important things that were said during the Q&A with Kaj Arno at FOSDEM09. If you have any questions (or corrections if you were there and think i misinterpreted) please use the comments. It is virtually unedited, so it’s rough but I don’t have the time right now [...]

Live from FOSDEM 2009

walterheck — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:02:12 +0000

I am now at FOSDEM, volunteering at the MySQL project stand and attending sessions in between. Today is the most important day for MySQL. At 13:15 CET there will be a talk by Kaj Arno covering recent events at Sun/MySQL. I am here with Santo Leto from HoneySoftware at the moment and he is going [...]

MySQL ‘godfather’ Monty leaves MySQL: what’s next?

walterheck — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:59:49 +0000

For those of you who haven’t heard, first go read this: Monty Leaves MySQL Now, let’s play for a bit I think this is a very interesting turn of events that took surprisingly long to happen. Now, what really is an interesting question to me is what will happen next? WARNING: Speculation alert! The following [...]

Testing environment: Installing CentOS 5.2 on VirtualBox

walterheck — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:34:52 +0000

In the previous post of this series we installed and set up VirtualBox. We prepared it for a default install of CentOS 5.2. This time, we cover the installation of the OS itself. Changes since the last article are an upgrade from v2.0 to v2.1, and the fact that I’m running VirtualBox on my Asus [...]

What to do when everything needs attention

walterheck — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:19:12 +0000

The problem Every once in a while it happens. A customer comes to us for a review of their site or application. We have our initial interview and start picking up the signs: they are developing their product alone. They are self-taught, self made men/women. They word certain concepts in slightly strange way. Then, we [...]