(Vince Barnes) We’re in the process of adding access to a MySQL Database to our HTML page and now we need to pick out the database we want to use and make sure that everything is properly available.

The SCO Group’s controversial Linux-related lawsuit against IBM does not go to trial for another year, but the Utah company’s litigation already has corporate software buyers worried.

(Paul Ferrill) It’s not often you see Microsoft adopting a language from the world of Open Source Software (OSS), but IronPython is just such a project and has gathered a growing following among several groups working on Longhorn and associated technologies. IronPython is the creation of Jim Hugunin

Helping 17 million people stay in touch with their friends and make new connections with others is a big job. A really big job. However, as the largest social networking site on the Web, Friendster is up to the task — even with 60 million page-views each day. To manage such a large (and growing)

(Ingrid Marson) The majority of Java developers that Builder UK spoke to at the JavaOne conference on Tuesday were not concerned whether or not Sun made its implementation of Java available under an open source licence.

A whole new realm of network-based applications has opened up for the Intel IXP425 Network Processor. This was brought about by the port of a full-featured embedded SQL database in a real-time environment, creating a breakthrough network application solution. Carried out by S2 Security Corpora

(Ovidiu Cucu) This article presents a collection of MFC-Extension classes that use the MySQL API. They are implemented in an MFC Extension DLL—MySQLWrapp.dll. The main goal of these classes is to optimize query and fetch time, handle errors, easily use query results, work with BLOB fields, and l

(Robert Lemos) Code-analysis software maker Coverity announced that its automated bug finding tool had analyzed the community-built operating system FreeBSD and flagged 306 potential software flaws, or about one issue for every 4,000 lines of code. The tool, which identifies certain types of program

(Robert Schneider) This chapter provides an overview of the various MySQL iterations, and how they are covered within the rest of the book, along with the environments in which they were used for the book. Finally, there is a list of performance enhancements and the version of MySQL in which they we

(Vikram Vaswani) Most users concentrate on MySQL’s databases and tables — after all, that’s where most of the action takes place — and they don’t usually look deeper to understand how it handles access privileges, passwords, and security. This approach is usually more than adequate for most developm