andPHP.com » Community http://www.andphp.com Web Development Tips, Tricks & Much More Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:41:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Help Saving MySQL http://www.andphp.com/2009/12/14/help-saving-mysql/ http://www.andphp.com/2009/12/14/help-saving-mysql/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:52:27 +0000 Luiz http://www.andphp.com/?p=59 Last year Sun bought MySQL. Now, Oracle is trying to buy Sun. If that happens Oracle will own MySQL. This is not a big problem in my mind, the problem lies in what Oracle will do with MySQL, if the purchase is approved by the EC.

With that Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle’s clutches. He is asking us to write the EC, and demand Oracle to change the terms for MySQL or give other guarantees to the users.

He has compiled a list of steps that one can take in order to help with this cause.

What I want to ask you to do (until 2009-12-19):

- Forward this email to everyone that you know is using MySQL or Open Source/free software and to all email list where you know there are people present that use or care about MySQL and open source (please check first that this email hasn’t been sent there before)
- Alternatively send emails with information about this and tell them to read http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html
- Add links on your web site to http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html with the text “We are using MySQL, help save it”, for the duration of the next two week.
- Blog about this (feel free to include this text or just link to my blog)
- Call by phone (don’t contact by email, this is urgent) your boss or VP and ask him to read this email and send a letter to the EC commission ASAP!
- If you don’t have anyone to contact above, send an email to the EC!

You can find the body of the email by visiting his blog post “Help saving MySQL”

Contact the European Commission and help save MySQL.

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  • Programming
  • Geeks
  • Robots
  • More Programming
  • Even More Robots
  • Podcasting
  • RSS Feeds
  • Photoshop
  • Whiskey (not free)
  • and More!

Well, for those of us that live in and near Orlando, FL this event is called BarCampOrlando.

BarCampOrlando

It will take place Downtown Orlando on April 5th – 6th at the Wall Street Plaza. Registration is FREE, but it is highly recommended that you give a demo, a session or help with one at the event. Both Jamal and myself will be attending both days and look forward to seeing more of you there.

http://www.barcamporlando.org/

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Given an arbitrary (but valid) HTML file, retrieve all the links that would be displayed as hyper links and display them sequentially, having removed any duplicates. You may use any built in function, the phpinfo() of the server used for testing will be attached. You just need to retrieve the links, you don’t need to worry about them being relative or absolute.

Head on to the contest topic at the c7y forums for more details.

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