Archiv für den Monat August, 2008

Duo mit Kopfschmerzen

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Unsere Duo war im früheren Leben eine Schrotflinte. Der Zylinderkopf zeigt deutliche Spuren von Geschossen. Wahrscheinlich gab es Tage an denen sich Kugellager aus dem Inneren des Motors sich ihren Weg nach draußen gebahnt haben. Die vermeintlichen Fluchthelfer sind der Zylinder und der Auspuff.

Der Motor ist im OP: Zylinder einschleifen, neuer Kolben, neue Kurbelwelle, […]

(Not) Using OpenSolaris 2008.05 for Connector/OpenOffice.org development (I)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

While Andrey made good progress with the Connector/OpenOffice.org I wasted my time trying to use OpenSolaris 2008.05 as an OpenOffice.org development platform. OpenSolaris is not on the list of platforms used my the maintainers and developers of OpenOffice.org. Another open technology - JDK 1.5 - has lowered my openness towards new development platforms.

If […]

In the (german) Press: Linux Technical Review 09/2008 on MySQL

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

The german print magazine Technical Review features two MySQL articles in his latest issue 09/2008. Kaj gets interviewed on the question what the future plans of Sun are with regards to MySQL. And I give answers to five technical questions on MySQL and upcoming features.

The german language teaser of the two articles reads as […]

MySQL Connector/C++ preview is available!

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

A new MySQL product is born. The preview release of MySQL Connector/C++ is available for download at http://downloads.mysql.com/forge/connector_cpp_preview . Connector/C++ is a new database driver to connect C++ applications to the MySQL Server. The preview mimics parts of the JDBC 3.0 API and is licensed under the terms of the GPL (plus FLOSS License Exception). […]