Posted on Mon 08 August 2005 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
The presentations, handouts, and solutions for the "Deep Dive with Apache Derby: Perl, PHP, and Python" tutorial I gave at OSCON 2005 are finally online, including a couple of last-minute corrections:
The tutorial (my first solo 3.5 hour teaching session) went reasonably well, although my …
Posted on Wed 03 August 2005 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
Heh -- one day after my OSCON tutorial on Apache Derby: Perl, PHP, and
Python, where I focused on the 10.1-alpha release from back in May,
the Derby team announced the first Derby 10.1
release.
Figures that there would be a flurry of activity after my talk 
I also …
Just wanted to point out that Zend Core for IBM is now generally available. If you need to get up and running with PHP and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, this is a pretty cool free package that will make your life pretty easy on Linux (x86, x86-64, POWER …
This must be a very familiar tale, yet I feel the urge to tell it again... about two weeks ago my hard drive started making that horrible 'click' noise that indicates that it is about time for it to shuffle off its all too mortal coil (and spindle, and platter …
Posted on Tue 28 June 2005 in misc • Tagged with Programming languages
I'm going a little nutty at the moment with a stack overflow of P* programming languages.
Posted on Mon 27 June 2005 in Databases
Take a look at the OSCON Top Ten Tutorials -- although it's not in the top ten, nat does put in a plug for my own Deep Dive with Apache Derby tutorial.
Gulp, no pressure!
Congrats to Chris for hitting the top ten with PHP Security -- I know that's going to …
Dad -- I know we've had our differences, sometimes for years at a time. Funny how I wound up with a lot of the same traits as you -- self-assuredness, stubbornness, independence, extreme rationality -- and when we butted heads those qualities made for some pretty intense disagreements. But you did pass on …
This place isn't called Coffee|Code for nothing. I'm quite serious about my coffee, to the point of roasting my own. I started a year and a half ago with a Freshroast Plus roaster that was included with a year-long subscription (of two pounds per month) of Merchants of Green …
Posted on Thu 16 June 2005 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
If you're looking for a book that covers Apache Derby / IBM Cloudscape
top-to-bottom, and you want a gentle introduction to programming
database applications with PHP, Perl, Python, JDBC, or .NET, Apache
Derby: Off to the
Races
No, really... I'm a co-author, responsible for the chapters …
A day or two late, but here are the slides for the "Inside the PHP Documentation" presentation I gave at php|tropics 2005 in sunny Cancun, Mexico.
A total of three "real people" attended; Derick and Andrei don't count because they were driven back into the conference room by the …