Posted
on 7/10/2013, 11:42 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
Tech.
Today I faced something weird:
byte@lovegood~$ brew update
error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 400
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Error: Failure while executing: git pull -q origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
I ran the brew doctor to find out my git version was outdated. Turns out you need “Git 1.7.10 or newer is required to perform checkouts over HTTPS from GitHub.” I had 1.7.2.2! Upgraded it to 1.8.3.2 now and all is well.
Posted
on 5/10/2013, 10:10 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
There is a Debian MariaDB plan from the MySQL package team. There is good news as on September 30 2013, the upload to Debian unstable is complete with MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.32). It’s now only a matter of time before this becomes available in Debian.
Its great to see the work of Otto Kekäläinen finally make it into Debian. I would say this has been in the works for seven months. Much thanks to James Page (Canonical) and Clint Byrum (HP, Debian Developer) for reviewing and uploading.
This joins the stable of packages that are already maintained by the Debian MySQL package team.
Posted
on 5/10/2013, 9:48 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB.
Updated: Thu Oct 26 16:48:31 +08 2017 – the link has changed as the domain has expired.
Now that Monty Program is no more, we don’t have the Hacking Business Model to govern how we work. I wanted to reference it recently and asked Daniel Bartholomew and Bryan Alsdorf, and they’ve managed to put it up online at a new domain to ensure it will always live on: The Hacking Business Model. It will live on at http://hbm.mariadb.org/.
Posted
on 4/10/2013, 11:38 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
To bring to attention those who will be in Tokyo, Japan or Buenos Aires, Argentina:
- MariaDB/MySQL Community Event – 9 October 2013 – Tokyo, Japan. Come see Michael Carney, Ivan Zoratti, Kentoku Shiba (creator of the SPIDER storage engine) and Colin Charles at this event. It is from 12.30pm – 8pm, and includes evening cocktails to some extent. It should be free to attend.
- MySQL NoSQL Cloud – 15-16 October 2013 – Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is the second such conference happening in Buenos Aires, and this time there are plenty of speakers who didn’t make it around the first time. Cost is nominal.
Posted
on 4/10/2013, 11:37 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
I just wanted to collect the links of the Google and MariaDB relationship. These were all items in September 2013.
The Register: Google swaps out MySQL, moves to MariaDB – this was largely based on a presentation at SLAC by Jeremy Cole (slides). Same news was picked up by ReadWrite (with a different angle naturally), Google Waves Goodbye To MySQL In Favor Of MariaDB.
If you’re more audio inclined, there was great discussion on the This Week in Google podcast: checkout episode 216.
Posted
on 1/10/2013, 9:23 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
About a month ago, I accepted an offer to work at SkySQL as the Chief Evangelist for MariaDB. So the change in affiliation announced in April 2013 has come to fruition. What this realistically means is that my email address changes to colin@mariadb.com, though I am still reachable at colin@mariadb.org even though I’m not part of the MariaDB Foundation.
There are a lot of structural changes that urgently need work and I expect to be spending quite some time on all this. In the meantime, read an update from the SkySQL CEO Patrik Sallner.