mysqlperformanceblog — Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) was released over a year ago and since then there has been tremendous interest and adoption. There’s plenty of talks that explain the fundamentals of PXC, but we’re starting to reach a threshold where it’s easier to find folks with PXC in production and such the...
channel9.msdn — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us again for a conversation about TypeScript. What have they learned since TypeScript first became available in preview form? How are folks using it? What's the feedback been? Today, we're pleased to announce the arrival of TypeScript version 0.9. This pre-release version...
channel9.msdn — Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs unveiled today four new create experiences on Socl (http://www.so.cl/), MSR's unique social network committed to the expression of ideas through visually rich posts that are easy to create, collect, comment on, and share. If you haven't already created an account, no better time to jump on...
chriscalender — I previously wrote an article on Building MariaDB 5.1 on Windows, but it was about 1.5 years ago (for 5.1.60; this is for 5.1.67), so I wanted to update this a little since I’ve built it entirely from the command-line this time (as well as highlight a couple problems/solutions –...
chriscalender — This is a follow-up, troubleshooting article that goes hand-in-hand with my “Building MariaDB 5.1 on Windows Revisited” post, and covers some problems and their solutions that one might encounter when attempting to build MariaDB from source code on Microsoft Windows. The first error I ran into was this, on my main...
channel9.msdn — Today's project by Keith Cully is one that I've been looking forward to highlighting. Keith's project looks like a fun game, but beyond that he's actually created a NUI based level editor too. How cool is that?You want more? How about some nice doc's?More? Physics. Speech. SQL. Azure....Even More? The...
hanselman — I'm totally geeked out about Smart Watches. I always have been, from the original Microsoft SPOT watch (from 10 years ago!) to the Pebble, and now the AGENT Smart Watch from Secret Labs. Secret Labs are the folks that brought us the Netduino open source electronics platform that uses the...
blog.mariadb — The MariaDB Foundation Board has now been meeting for a few months and we have been gradually taking steps to establish the Foundation as an independent organisation with member-led governance. The Board has asked me, as CEO, to provide regular updates on our progress here on the MariaDB Blog, so...
clusterdb — Foreign Key constraints between tables The newly announced GA of MySQL Cluster 7.3 (7.3.2) builds upon second DMR (7.3.1 m2) released earlier in the year which added Foreign Keys to MySQL Cluster. Foreign Keys is a feature requested by many, many people and has often been cited as the reason for...
blogs.msdn — If you hang out with designers, you may hear the word family used as a verb, usually with the adverb well. The old icons now look dated and do not family well with the Web site. We renamed the feature from Auto Shape to Instant Shape so that it families well with other features like Instant...
clusterdb — MySQL Cluster 7.3 has just been declared Generally Available (and with it the new MySQL Cluster Auto-Installer) – download it from here. Deploying a well configured cluster has just got a lot easier! Oracle have released a new auto-installer/configurator for MySQL Cluster that makes the processes extremely simple while making...
johndcook — Several people have asked me what kind of work I’ve been doing since I went out on my own earlier this year. So far I’ve done a lot of fairly small projects, though I have one large project that’s just getting started. (The larger the project and client, the longer...
dev.mysql — The MySQL team at Oracle are excited to announce the immediate availability of the MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Milestone Release GA release. Some might call MySQL Cluster 7.3 "the foreign keys release" - and sure enough it is a major engineering achievement to build a distributed database that enforces referential...
thedailywtf — Since the first caveman first discovered the concept of this is more valuable than that, the science of alchemy has captured the imagination of many an enterprising soul. Unfortunately, to date, nobody has had any real success in transforming worthless metal into gold. That was, until the wonder that is...
channel9.msdn — In part 2 of a 4 part series on control vendors, Robert is joined at TechEd in New Orleans by Phil Japikse of Telerik. Phil shows us some of the many XAML controls Telerik provides for XAML development, both in WPF and Windows 8.
effectivemysql — Download PDF Presentation At Cloud Expo East 2013 I gave a presentation of my experiences in dealing with large AWS environments. In summary this included: Understanding AWS Products (especially the growth of new/revised products and pricing) Knowing the true Cost of your deployment and options with instances types, sizes and products Being prepared for...
theopenforce — A few years back, along with some other folks at MySQL, I helped kick off a campaign against software patents in Europe. This was a hot topic and surprisingly, it seemed no large companies were willing to step up the fight. As a relatively young company, MySQL had a lot...
iheavy — Read the original article at MySQL for Devs, DBAs and DebutantesJoin 6500 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. I just received my copy of the 5th Edition of Paul DuBois’ MySQL tomb. Weighing in at 1153 pages, it’s a solid text, with a very thorough introduction to the...
channel9.msdn — Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone . In this episode Laura takes a look at:NBA Jam Contre Jour SynthPling! AppBundle Talking Tom Cat Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks!
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channel9.msdn — Today's project comes to us via Robert of frog design (Yes, that frog design). When his email came in (You all know you can email us your cool and fun projects right? If there's code, is in the Microsoft sphere an does something cool, fun, interesting or different, drop us...
daverupert — » Ughck. Images.In a follow-up piece to his ALA article Mo’ Pixels, Mo’ Problems, Dave Rupert talks about all the progress we've made toward responsive image solutions — by which he means no progress has been made.
thedailywtf — Thomas was outrunning a hurricane. Storm clouds loomed from the south, the outer fringes of hurricane Gustav. He and the other employees at a volunteer center in New Orleans had been mandatorily evacuated a few hours earlier. The battery LED indicator on Thomas’s phone shone red, the...
blogs.msdn — I dreamed that I was playing doubles tennis. My partner was Boris Becker. Our opponents were the Queen of England and a policeman on a horse. The horse served his horseshoe, which I returned poorly. As the horseshoe bounced across the ground, it made huge divots. The game was called due to poor ground conditions. The Queen played...
mysqlperformanceblog — The aim of this post is to enumerate real-world usage of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and also to solicit use cases from the readers. One of the prominent usages in the production environment that we have come across (and our Percona consultants have assisted) is that of HP Cloud. There...