Posted
on 12/6/2013, 12:40 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
So MariaDB 10.0.3 Alpha is out. Download it and remember to provide feedback.
When you run SHOW ENGINES by default, you don’t get CassandraSE or the CONNECT engine. Make sure you do a yum install MariaDB-cassandra-engine and a yum install MariaDB-connect-engine.
You will run into conflicts if you had an older MariaDB-CassandraSE engine (so yum remove MariaDB-CassandraSE).
Once you’ve got the packages installed, you can either install the plugin or just restart mysqld.
Happy testing!
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CentOS,
MariaDB,
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Posted
on 11/6/2013, 7:27 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Today I performed a brew update. I noticed that MariaDB now exists as stable (5.5.30) and devel (10.0.2). Brew formulas also exist for MySQL (5.6.10) and Percona Server (5.5.30-30.2) now. 10.0.3 is around the corner but I wanted to run 10.0.2 now. This is how I did it:
brew unlink mariadb
brew install --devel mariadb
It’s that simple!
Posted
on 7/6/2013, 11:24 pm,
by Colin Charles,
under
Travel.
Posted
on 7/6/2013, 6:47 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
General.
Lately Sara’s been cooking a lot as she makes recipes for JewelPie.
Over the weekend, I had some petai pizza toast. Just bread, with toppings like tomato paste, cheese, mushrooms, onions, and petai (Parkia speciosa).
Yesterday, I got to try the Mini pepperoni pizza. It really can be made in about 15 minutes and I had no idea that as a base, gyoza/wantan/dumpling pastry works a charm. I’m a big fan of the “Hawaiian pizza”, so I got bacon & pineapples on my pizza. It was wonderful!
For dessert, I had jambu (syzgium) with some asam. It came with rather interesting presentation skills!
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cooking,
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Posted
on 7/6/2013, 5:29 am,
by Colin Charles,
under
Tech.
I’ve had many accounts on Google Apps for Domains. I guess its kind of a blow that the free option is gone now, and the cheapest is now USD$50/year. One thing Google recently killed in their winter cleaning of 2012 was Google Sync.
Now when you setup a new device, say an iPhone, you will have to “fetch” Mail (push email has stopped working). If you want push email, you will have to use the GMail app.
Calendars seem to sync just fine.
Contacts need you to use CardDAV. Google has useful instructions.
How easy was it to ditch a BlackBerry? Dead easy. Setup email, allow it to sync calendar, allow it to sync contacts and the new phone “just works”.
I did for sometime think of using Rackspace hosted webmail, which is USD$2/user/month, with $1/user/month for push, but wasn’t really certain that paying them $3/month/user made sense when Google was really only $4.17 (you get all the other stuff with google apps too).
In the future I’m guessing I will be paying Google for services. But for today, I live to see another (free) day.
Towards the end of last year, I was asked to investigate the Red Hat Software Collections by someone that popped by one of my talks. SkySQL has been working heavily with Red Hat, and with Fedora 19 shipping MariaDB as a default, it seems like MariaDB is getting even more distribution. The Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 Beta is now available for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
From a database standpoint, users now get MariaDB 5.5. I encourage all to try it, as it is an in-situ upgrade. It is described as:
MariaDB version 5.5, which introduces an easy-to-adopt alternative for MySQL for Red Hat Enterprise Linux users. Binary compatibility allows MySQL users to drop-in MariaDB without converting data files.
Sweet. But for database users, it also includes MySQL 5.5 (better than 5.1.69), and PostgreSQL 9.2 (better than 8.4.13). After listening to Rasmus Lerdorf talk about PHP 5.4, I’m glad that I can now use it with RHEL6.
I wonder if there will be CentOS Software Collections as well?
Read an article in PCWorld about Software Collections (see a press release too). There’s some developer documentation from Red Hat, and some draft documentation from Fedora too.
Thanks SkySQL, Team MariaDB and Red Hat!
