Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over Android might be good for Oracle, but it’s bad for everyone else. Some are suggesting that all open source projects – including MySQL – controlled by Oracle (most as a result of it’s acquisition of Sun) immediately fork. Is it time to switch RN to use PostgreSQL?
The Second Life Marketplace Script is the website to buy an amazing assortment of virtual items sold by fellow Residents. In preparation, get started with what you need to know to about our Secondlife Marketplace Script. Our Secondlife Marketplace Script is an clone of sites similar to xstreetsl.com or slexchange.com and many others. What this script does is deliver inventory the the residents of Secondlife. What our scripts contain is a combination of Secondlife LSL scripts, which is used for the in-world Terminal to activate users accounts onto the website and deposit Lindens for use to buy Secondlife inventory on your website
WordPress is a Content Management System designed to create blogs or web pages that are periodically updated. It was developed using PHP as scripting engine and MySQL as back end database.
The open source and MySQL community started getting worried after MySQL acquisition by Sun Microsystems, but after that Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems the future of MySQL become unclear. Will Oracle continue to support MySQL or shutdown one of its biggest competitors ? First we saw Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL database forking his own database and launching MariaDB with a company behind it called the Monty Program. In addition to the core functionality of MySQL, MariaDB offers a rich set of feature enhancements including alternate storage engines, server optimizations, and patches. Then recently appeared Ulf Sandberg, ex-senior VP of global services at MySQL, with SkySQL a company providing enterprise class support & services for the MySQL ecosystem. According to the company website all core members of SkySQL are former employees of MySQL. In addition they are currently hiring in all areas, including support, consulting, training, marketing & sales.
Prague, 8 July 2010 – Campsite, the free, open source, multilingual content management system for news websites has been released in version 3.4 and features over fifty bug fixes and improvements. Building upon the stability and security improvements in June’s 3.3.6 release, this latest version includes dramatically improved search options (both internally and for external search engines), a clean up of the graphical interface (new-look icons and admin interface) and easier installation. Campsite is a flagship open-source software package developed by Sourcefabric, one of the largest European open source projects for news and media. “With this release, Campsite can be installed on almost any hosting service,” said Micz Flor, one of Sourcefabric’s founding partners.
With all of the available web hosting plans, now is the time to start building sites whether your goal is fun, education, profit or all of the above. The days of plain static HTML sites is past. Today’s servers feature access to programming languages and database capability to provide dynamic web pages with just a little bit of coding.
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA39792 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/39792/ DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MySQL, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions or potentially compromise a vulnerable system and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 5.1.47.
“From Snype @ www.phpnuke-install.com: Posted on Saturday, May 08, 2010 @ 07:06:19 CDT” Snype writes: PHP-Nuke is a popular Web content management system (CMS), based on PHP and a database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, or Adabas. Earlier versions were open source and free software protected by GNU Public License, but since then it has become commercial software. As it is still very popular in the Internet community, it is not surprising that it has become a target [yet again] of blackhat attacks. WARNING : At the time of writing the front page of phpnuke.org still contains the malicious iframe, so we advise users to stay away from the site until it has been fixed. Read Snype’s entire article @ phpnuke-install.com
Yesterday a friend was requesting a MYSQL/PHP Consultant to speed up his websites, and today I was reading few comments and solutions on his facebook : Use APC, mem_cache for PHP, mysql query caching, use nginx instead of Apache, Use mysqli extension instead of adodb or mysql extension … etc. Of course all of these could be solutions, but unless you have previously located what the problem really is. A website could be slow for many reasons, and to be able to fix it and make it run faster you have to first find problem. What you will need to know is : 1- Understand the business : Before looking into PHP or MySQL, have a first look at the website(s) and answer these two questions : – What is slow – Why is it slow Look at the page size, images, video, flash, … your issue might be in the client side and everything else might be good. Use a tool like Firefox web developer extension and disable everything : CSS, Javascript, Images… and load the page as html to feel the difference. The business here is NOT the business logic behind the website, it’s the interface that people use to interact with the website. If everything looks okay, you can go for further server-side investigations
PremiumSoft today announces the immediate release of version 9 for the whole Navicat™ family, including: – Navicat™ Premium – Navicat™ for MySQL – Navicat™ for PostgreSQL – Navicat™ for Oracle – Navicat™ for SQLite To meet the wishes of Navicat customers and the demand of managing SQLite database server through a GUI, Navicat for SQLite is introduced to the Navicat family in this launch. Navicat for SQLite provides SQLite users a tool for administering and managing database objects as well as for database migration, data import, export, synchronization, reporting, and more. With the launch of Navicat for SQLite, database connectivity to SQLite servers is also added to Navicat Premium. Navicat Premium unites all Navicat family members for database administration and development, into one powerful and easy-to-use work environment. With the new Navicat Premium version 9, users can connect to 4 of the most common databases including MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite within one single application, making cross-database data management feasible. In addition to the introduction of Navicat for SQLite, another significant feature improvement to version 9 is the introduction of PL/SQL debugger in Navicat for Oracle. The PL/SQL debugger lets users debug their code easily, it helps to avoid tedious PL/SQL debugging tasks, saving time and improving the overall quality of applications. “We’re very excited about the launch of Navicat version 9”, said Mr.