2007 October | JPz'log

29Oct/070

Plan for the next IzPack release

The release step will go as follows.

We won't have a proper release until the new documentation can be included. There is still work to be done here: finish the migration to reST, add building tools support and have the users community provide fixes, enhancements and updates.

There are however many changes ready to be used from the SVN trunk, hence we will publish preview releases meanwhile, so that adventurous users can start to use them.

If everything goes as planned, the first preview release (3.11.0-beta1) will be available on november 30th.

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25Oct/070

MySQL insanity

MySQL is going to integrate some code from Google customizations. That is extremely good and healthy, however I came across a paragraph that made me wonder if MySQL will ever stop being insane at times...

Oracle having acquired the vendor of MySQL main data storage subsystem (InnoDB), the company decided to write a new one called Falcon. This is a safe move as it could potentially threaten MySQL if Oracle decided not to play nice anymore regarding InnoDB.

However... read this:

Falcon will do crash recovery and roll-back operations faster than InnoDB because they are done from main memory, Schumacher said, but some InnoDB features, like foreign key support and full-text indexing, won't be supported until MySQL 6.1.

Come on! How can you pretend making an enterprise-grade RDBMS and not support foreign keys? Just remember that MySQL only started to support them in version 5... I think I'll never understand why MySQL is so bitchy about foreign keys while any other RDBMS just provides it (PostgreSQL, Firebird or Derby just do it right).

If you don't have basic referential integrity, then please don't call it a RDBMS: just call it a "table-based database" with SQL support.

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23Oct/070

GSN: another IzPack-powered project

My good Japan-bound friend Olivier just pinged me about GSN which is another IzPack-powered project.

GSN is a middleware for sensor networks:

GSN is a software middleware designed to facilitate the deployment and programming of sensor networks.

Using GSN, now you can leave all the nifty sensor network details behind and focus only on the high level application logic. Thanks to GSN's open API, you can quickly write sensor network applications by leaving the tedious task of managing low level hardware dependent details to GSN.

If your project is also using IzPack and we don't know about it, feel free to ping me as well