This Brian Proffit interview of Ed Stetzer is very interesting. I’ve got some thoughts of my own on the conclusions, but I need to think about it more.
Hat tip to James Mills
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I started working on a project today that uses the MySQL relational database to save data on the back-end. One of the packages available for Fedora 10, my current desktop OS, is the mysql-gui-tools package. This includes the MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser programs. I had those already installed, but after a few minutes I knew that the Query Browser just wasn’t going to work for me. I kept trying to copy queries into the little window, and errors were getting into it somewhow. And even if that weren’t happening, I couldn’t get it to resize and not being able to look at more than a couple lines at a time was driving me nuts. So I hopped over to OTN and grabbed Oracle SQL Developer. SQL Developer was built with Oracle in mind but it can connect to a variety of database systems.
I’ve been doing some MySQL database work today. I’ve got to confess that I find working with MySQL to be more than a bit painful. I really think it is unfortunate that it became so popular and is now everywhere. I really rather work with PostgreSQL. But what is, is – so I’ve finally decided to just dig in. After about 10 minutes the first thing I had to do was ditch the MySQL Query Browser. I switched over to Oracle SQL Developer – which is not open but is free as in beer.
Once I get my database squared away, which is taking longer than I expected, I’ll be working on a php project with the CodeIgniter framework. I should document all the steps. Maybe today I’ll do screen shots on setting up SQL Developer for MySQL. It aint rocket science, but might be useful down the road.
This is a work in progress – and I’m not sure how long it will last but I’m going to give it a spin.
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http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/33764/why_the_white_house_s_embrace_of_drupal_matters
Drupal developers are abuzz with the realization that the White House’s new Recovery.gov site was built using the free and open-source content management platform Drupal. Pre-Recovery.gov, the perhaps highest-profile use of Drupal had been the Onion website. But that’s not the only reason that Drupal fans are excited. I asked two CMS expert friends to help me understand the situation, and here are a few of the reasons they gave for why the White House’s embrace of Drupal is momentous:
The folks over at O’Reilly Radar have a report on the state of the computer book market. They have a link in the article that explains why they think those outside the publishing industry might care, but to sum it up they feel that computer book publishing may serve as a good indicator of technology trends.
