Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Mar 8, 2010
If you do not know what International Women’s Day is: http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
Start planning your blog posts for Ada Lovelace day now (March 24th, http://findingada.com/ Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.)
To that end, I would like to point out all the women currently in science and tech fields that I admire and think are doing great things. I think it would be great if everyone, male or female, made a list like this:
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Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Nov 11, 2009
That’s right — get your free 10-day trial! All the information I know is here:
http://bit.ly/37E9ld
But the basics are: No access to Rough Cuts or Downloads, for new subscribers only. It’s one of those “sign up and if you do not cancel after 10 days, we bill you” — and at $42.99 a month, that’s not a mistake you want to make. Must sign up by Nov. 24th.
To sign up now: https://ssl.safaribooksonline.com/tryitfree
I was asked to send this information along, so I am…Now’s your chance to skim High Performance MySQL, among other high quality books!
Posted by David Edwards on Oct 16, 2009
I regret to say, there is no Log Buffer this week, as we’ve all been busy preparing for the Big New Thing coming in a few days. The good news is, we have a Big New Thing coming in a few days. Stay tuned for that, you won’t want to miss it.
LB will be back in a week, with Gerry Narvaja at the helm. In the meantime, I invite you to leave a comment with your favourite DB blogs from this week — MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Postgres, Ingres, or other relational/NoSQL databases.
Posted by Yanick Champoux on Oct 14, 2009
Recently, hanekomu was contemplating how to make subsequent installs of a Task::BeLike module upgrade its dependencies to their latest version.
The idea is intriguing. It’s not something you want to do for a typical module, but it makes sense in the context of Task::BeLike. If you care enough about a module to put it in your Task::BeLike, you probably care enough to want to upgrade when there’s a new version out there.
Alas, I think hanekomu’s proposed way of doing it is flawed (mind you, the debate is still going on as of the writing of this entry, and I can very well still be proven wrong). But after some pondeferous chin scratching, I might have come with a cunning alternative to it.
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Posted by Yanick Champoux on Oct 8, 2009
picture by Geophaps
Hey, that one in the sixth row…
Doesn’t he looks familiar?
So there I am, on my morning bus ride, reading my copy of The Definitive Guide to Catalyst (keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming review of the book in the Perl Review).
I’m near the end, in Chapter 11, Catalyst Cookbook. As it is with most tech books, the last chapters are the most engrossing, as the gloves finally come of and the writers throw at you all the wonderful, mind-bending stuff that the rest of the book prepares you for.
The section I’m at is about the development process. Specifically, it shows how you can put hooks in your versioning system to automatically screen commits to conform to Perl::Critic and Perl::Tidy policies. The given example script uses Git, which is just dandy with me as it is my current VCS of choice. But there’s something . . . funny about that script. The way the utility functions are stashed at the end after a
### utility functions ##############################
line. The choice of variable names. The comments. It all feels oddly familiar. Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Yanick Champoux on Sep 28, 2009
On Monday August 31st, Gowlings hosted a debate on open source licenses organized by the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre (FOSSLC).
The debate was conducted between the proponents of three major Open Source licenses: Mike Milinkovich for the EPL, Matt Asay for the GPL, and David Maxwell for the BSD license.
It was organized into three rounds: first the panelists had ten minutes to sell us their license of choice. Then they were given five minutes to rebut points made by the two other panelists. A final one minute was given to rebut any rebuttal. After those three rounds, the audience—both the live one and that watching the feed—asked their questions.
From what I could estimate, between 50 and 70 people physically attended the event. Andrew reported that between 25 and 50 viewed the live feed. Videos of the event are available on the FOSSLC site.
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Posted by David Edwards on Jun 5, 2009
This is the 149th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.
MySQL
Let’s begin with the big-picture stuff. Jeremy Zawodny laid out his view of the state of MySQL in Linux Magazine’s blog, noting the rough transition between versions 5.0 and 5.1, the status of storage engines, and outside contributions.
Like Baron Schwartz’s Maatkit, for example. Baron announced this week that he is writing a book about Maatkit, and also seeking input for a new tool to verify MySQL upgrades.
Percona is surely one of the foremost outside contributors in the MYSQL world. This week on their MySQL Performance Blog, Peter Zaitsev and his readers discuss some ad hoc ways to copy a database, in his item on using netcat to copy MySQL Database.
Darren Cassar, MySQL Preacher, delved into the particulars of replicating from MySQL to *. Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Brad Hudson on May 5, 2009
I said I would follow up. Who knew I actually would?
I love my new PC. It’s been a few years since I did a build for myself, so I took my time lovingly feeling every piece for the tactile joy of it, and completely ignoring any printed material that came with the parts. Well, I did read the bit about the front panel connectors, that one is kind of a must when it’s not printed on the board.
For the record it consists of an ASUS M3A78-EM with an AMD Athlon 64X2 7750 Black Box. I was on a budget so I could not go for the quad core as yet, so I made sure I got a mobo that would stand some upgrades when the price-point drops. Check out the ports on the mobo, it has everything. Check out the cache on the CPU (1MB L2, 2MB L3). I am sticking with the on-board video for now; I prefer NVidia to ATI, but for the moment it will do. It fit the price.
All of that has nothing to do with Kubuntu. Since I got the parts together late, I did not have as much time to play as I would have liked, but I do know that it boots very quickly. I will time it this weekend, but it was around 15 seconds from GRUB to KDM. I did some installs of apps that were not shipped with the default desktop, such as Firefox, mplayer, fglrx, and a few other choice bits I like (which I will mention by name in a follow-up). I was fairly impressed so far.
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Posted by Brad Hudson on Apr 24, 2009
Hi folks. I am back for the second in what will eventually be a long line of infrequent updates. Did you miss me?
End of School with Linux
OCLUG (The Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group) is putting on an event called—you guessed it—End of School with Linux. This is happening on April 28, 2009 starting at 11am at the University of Ottawa in the SITE building, room C0136. The purpose of the event is to help people with their Linux systems, install Linux, fix issues, and just generally help out in the community. Your humble blogger will be there, manning the booth from 1200-1600, so come on down. And tell a friend, too.
More details can be found at the CSSA’s page. Click here for a map of the campus.
Also check out the OCLUG home page.
Ubuntu 9.04 Released
Ubuntu 9.04 was released today. I have not yet looked at any reviews of the release candidates, but I am on my way out to pick up some new hardware on which to install it tonight.
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