Author: C.J. Collier

  • MySQL Meetup 2006/05/01

    Hannah, Scarlet and I attended the Seattle Meetup, since we heard Arjen was planning on being in town. We went to the normal location, but the owner told me they were closed due to their entire staff being involved in the civil rights march. We arrived to a table full of the regulars. Breadsticks, pizza,…

  • GUI Service Management App in Mono

    On Saturday at LinuxFest NorthWest, I was approached by someone named Paul who was intererested in writing graphical applications to execute common tasks. I asked for an example, and he mentioned service management of for instance, apache and bind. So we wrote a small mono app using Glade as the interface designer. http://colliertech.org/svn/admin/ServiceTool/ Here is…

  • New pre-release of the maxdb<->mysql bi-directional synchronization manager code

    Let me stress that this code is not complete and has not been tested. This is probably not something you want to get involved in. Move along. Thank you. Bye bye. Now that I am writing to an empty house…. I’ve pushed a new version of the synchronization manager code to my subversion repository. It…

  • A quick over-view of RDBMSs’ general place in the world, and ours in particular

    [1][2][3] RDBMSs (or for clarity, Databases) are a basic element of any computer-based appliance in the same way as are an Operating System, Web Server and software development platform. As is common for developers of Open Source software, I am quite familiar with Linux as the Operating System, Apache as the Web Server, MaxDB and…

  • YAPC::NA

  • MySQL AB :: The MaxDB series on PlanetMySQL.

    We’ve published the first few episodes of the weekly MaxDB series in .pdf form. Please take a look and let us know what you think! MySQL AB :: The MaxDB series on PlanetMySQL.

  • Anybody need some cycles on a sun machine?

    Hey you mono folks. Yeah, you. You know who I’m talking about. Do you need some cycles on a sun machine to run build tests?

  • Is gtkglarea-sharp ready for production?

    I don’t know. Probably not quite yet. But there has been interest using the toolkit in a production video game. Fun. But what do you all think?

  • Useful MaxDB commands

    To find a list of tables in a schema: $ sqlcli -u TEST,TEST -d SYNCMANA “SELECT * FROM TABLES WHERE SCHEMANAME = ‘TEST'” To find a list of triggers on a table: $ sqlcli -u DBSERVICE,SECRET -d SYNCMANA “SELECT * FROM TRIGGERS WHERE TABLENAME = ‘T'” To describe a table’s structure: $ cat me &&…

  • Synchronization Manager: MySQL as replication destination

    Earlier this week, I wrote about the Synchronization Manager and gave a step-by-step tutorial on getting an initial scenario implemented. In this article, I’ll expand on the previous tutorial by introducing the concept of uni-directional synchronization. Uni-directional participants act as destinations for replicated data. These participants are sometimes called “slaves,” because they are not capable…