Posted on Tue 01 November 2005 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby
Just got back from a gruelling Paris - Amsterdam - Berlin - Paris - Toronto series of flights (don't ask) to wrap up my European October getaway and found this sitting on my doorstep.
Yes, sirs and madams, it is the official hard-bound 500+ page book known as Apache Derby: Off to the Races …
Posted on Tue 18 October 2005 in Databases • Tagged with DB2
Hopefully this proves useful to someone else in the same position in the future... I have been working on a simple PHP application that connects to DB2 using the ibm_db2 extension. Recently I decided to try scaling it up to test the application with a more realistic (10GB) database …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Today, I gave a talk on using PHP with DB2, Cloudscape, and Apache Derby at php|tropics.
My talk was the second talk of the day, immediately following Wez Furlong's excellent and well-attended presentation on PDO. The strong lead-in may have contributed to the record turnout at my talk -- about …
Posted on Thu 21 April 2005 in Databases • Tagged with MySQL
Miguel gave a high-energy, high-enthusiasm, but rather scattered keynote address to the MySQL User Conference this morning: