‘MySQL’ posts

WordPress Video Framework released

Posted by John Eckman on 14 May 2009

The folks at Automattic rolled out an upgrade this week to the video quality of videos hosted on WordPress.com blogs using their VideoPress service. The upgrade adds support for HD as well as other formats, using automated transcoding (see the announcement for more info): With the video upgrade (available on your upgrades page, bottom left | View post »

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives

Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »

Here Comes the MySQL

Posted by John Eckman on 17 Jan 2008

Big news on the MySQL front. While many had predicted MySQL would have an IPO in 2008, but it was announced today that Sun will acquire them for approximately one billion: 800 million in cash and 200 million in options. Kaj Arno, VP of Community for MySQL AB (the company behind the project), said on | View post »

Concurrency and Transaction Isolation in MySQL

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 10 Jan 2008

Often, when a site allows users to add and update content, you run into concurrency issues. We recently ran into a problem where double clickers were causing two transactions to fire. For most of the system, this is fine, but many parts of our system use a "get_or_create" method to create records. We were getting | View post »