Ulf Wendel

The PHP BBQ Tour starts in exactly one week. The first barbecue will be held in Munich on Monday, 15.06, 19:00 CEST. The tour is an offering and a suggestion to the user group to come together for a barbecue instead of meeting in conference rooms in the middle of the summer, when the days are long. Everybody is invited to join the tour and to visit the PHP user group in his neighbor town. Tour dates: Munich (Monday, 15.06), Frankfurt (Tuesday, 16.06), Karlsruhe (Wednesday, 17.06), Berlin (Thursday, 18.06), Dortmund (Friday, 19.06), Hamburg (Saturday, 20.06) and Kiel (Sunday, 21.06).

Be a pioneer, sail together with the crew of Mayflower (thinkPHP) and the PHP locals into the Hirschgarten park for the first barbecue on the tour. If you consider to come, please add your name to the Wiki page at http://silberkind.de/dokuwiki/phpbbq (no password required). Depending on the number of participants and the weather the actual location may change. It is important to check the wiki at the day of the event for latest details.

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It is getting summer in Germany: let’s have a PHP BBQ tour! The PHP BBQ tour is one week tour from Monday, 15.06. – Sunday, 21.06.2009 visiting the german PHP user groups. The tour will go through Munich, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Dortmund, Hamburg and Kiel. The tour is an offering and a suggestion to the user group to come together for a barbecue instead of meeting in conference rooms in the middle of the summer, when the days are long. Everybody is invited to join me and other MySQLers on the tour to visit the PHP user group in his neighbor town.

Please check the MySQL Forge Wiki page for details: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/PHP_BBQ_Tour and check you local user group mailing list. The wiki page will be updated frequently and give more details as soon as available.

What it is

During the past weeks I have contacted several user groups and proposed to have a barbecue during a regular user group meeting. The feedback has been positive as you can see. The barbecue shall be in no way significantly different from any regular user group meeting. Whoever organizes the meeting, sets the rules.

As a member of the Sun/MySQL Connectors team, working on the PHP, C++ and OpenOffice.org drivers for MySQL, I can offer to give a presentation MySQL topics at the evening or be just around. If you would like to hear a presentation on a certain topic, please let me know. I may be able to find some good presenters for you. Giving a presentation, however, is not a must.

Several MySQLers and Sunnies already said they would come to some of the meetings: Kaj Arnö, Giuseppe Maxia, Lenz Grimmer, Amdrey Hristov, Georg Richter, Johannes Schlüter, David Soria Parra, … Lenz plans to join the tour for several days.

Why?

Because it is fun! Because it is a wonderful opportunity to get in touch. Because it is a good opportunity to raise attention for the amazingly vivid meet ups.

From Munich to Kiel

The first BBQ will be in Munich on Monday (15.06.). The last BBQ will take place in Kiel (21.06) during the Kieler Woche – the biggest summer festival in northern Europe.

Please check the wiki page during the next days for updates!

… subject says it all. There will be a webinar on the driver on Wednesday, 20 20, 2009: 10:00 Pacific time. Register Now.

We have just finished writing the slides. From the contents:

• The reasoning behind Connector/C++’s development
  • Internal customers
• What’s included in Connector/C++
  • Architecture
  • API
  • Platforms
  • Installation
  • Portability
• How you can use it to ease your C++ development
  • Tooling
  • Connection Properties
  • Buffered vs. unbuffered result sets
  • Prepared Statements
  • Stored Procedures
• What’s planned for Connector/C++
  • Roadmap 1.0.6 GA
  • 1.1, 2.0 and beyond

Stored Procedures have been a MySQL 5.0 Key Feature. We have marketed them as an Enterprise Feature. Of course, the MySQL Connector/C++ supports them as far as possible. Using them is easy as long as you respect some limitations that still exist. The MySQL driver for C++ inherits those limitations from its underlying C-API. Which in turn cannot offer features not supported by the MySQL Client Server protocol. However, good news is: most things work just fine!

Setting up a connection for Stored Procedures

More good news first: no extra set up required with Connector/C++.

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MySQL Connector/C++ is GA. It features virtually everything needed by the two "internal customers" MySQL Workbench and Connector/OpenOffice.org. Based on internal test results and bug inflow, the stability is quite reasonable for a 1.0.5. It is overdue to move the development discussion on the mailing list and to ask: what do you want for 1.1, 1.5, 2.0?

At least two users have already proposed changes. Matthias Brantner has filed Connector/C++ bug report #3 – a feature request. Christian Koch has spotted my earlier mailing list posting already and replied. Both ask for easier memory management, both are suggesting a "clean" API. Thanks for the feedback!

Let’s talk on the mailing list. Please do not be disappointed if it takes a day or two before you get a reply… no difference to other mailing lists.

So wie all die MySQLer aus vollem Hals auf PlanetMySQL die neuesten Produktinformationen rausbrüllen, so schreit dieses Küken der Küstenseeschwalbe. Ich hatte heute keine Lust auf Marktgeschrei. Stattdessen habe ich einige Konservenfotos unter http://www.flickr.com/photos/ulfwendel/ eingestellt, während ich den MacMini fütterte.

Die zwei Arbeitswochen vor der UC grenzten an Tierquälerei. Apropos Tierquälerei: darf ein Supermarkt Reinigungsschaben verkaufen?

Tierisch viel Spaß könnte mir eine Serie von Grillabenden machen. München, wäre ein guter Ort. Lädt jemand ein?

The first production release of MySQL Connector/C++ is available, please see the official announcement. You can download source and binary packages from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/1.0.html. A long and detailed getting started type API introduction article is waiting for you in the DevZone. The documentation has sections on how to set up NetBeans or VisualStudio projects for creating client applications.

During beta we learned about a pitfall: binary portability on Windows and Linux (generic builds). Forum users have reported issues when using our binaries (not the source) with Visual Studio 2008. Self-compiled builds are not affected. For GA we offer Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 builds. This should cure the situation.

Generic Linux packages have been build with GCC 3.2.3

Linux users of the generic binary builds, note that our binaries have been compiled using GCC 3.2.3. If your system is using a more recent version of GCC, consider to build from source. When linking a client application against our *.so files using a more recent GCC, you may get warnings and errors related to libstdc++.so.5. GCC 4.x is using libstdc++.so.6. Your distribution may offer *-compat packages to solve problems. It takes two minutes to compile from source using cmake . && make && sudo make install – your choice if you want to build from source or try *-compat packages.

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No next, no finish button? #FAIL

No Firefox, please. You must use the Internet Explorer! #FAIL II

Subject: Out of Office: Registration fails
From: HP Care Pack Admin Germany 

HP Care Pack Out of Office… #FAIL III

The End? Oracle to Buy Sun
What does Oracle plan to do with MySQL?

MySQL will be an addition to Oracle’s existing suite of database products, which already includes Oracle Database 11g, TimesTen, Berkeley DB open source database, and the open source transactional storage engine, InnoDB., Oracle Sun FAQ.

No, I don’t have any more details. I am surprised as you may be.
As a user, I would sit and wait for details before I make my point. As a user, I would wait for the UC to open its doors to hear the usual MySQL product announcements. MySQL has gone through the Sun acquisition, maybe we get used to it. As long as we do not change and remain as we are (or listen even better to the community), I am optimistic. I go out and continue to do some errands before the UC fireworks starts. ..

Relax, there are four weeks left to register for the MySQL Connector/C++ web seminar. The webinar is scheduled for May 20. Hurry, if you want to attend the MySQL Conference and Expo 2009 with all its sessions. If you had a stressful day, try gardening. Gardening does not require a garden as you can see.

About the webinar: MySQL Connector/C++ is the latest Connector for MySQL. It takes different approach compared to existing C++ drivers by following the JDBC specification in a way that makes sense in C++ world. JDBC is the Java standard for accessing Databases, which has been improved over the numerous Java releases. The JDBC interface is very well thought out. In this webinar you’ll learn:

• The reasoning behind Connector/C++’s development
• What’s included in Connector/C++
• What’s planned for Connector/C++
• How you can use it to ease your C++ development

I continue cutting the green in a couple of hours… Enjoy the weekend!