(Darryl K. Taft) Rod Johnson, an outspoken member of the open-source community, rallied Java developers to wave their Java flags high but to look beyond Java and hone their business and communications skills as they look for new opportunities in a world where Java and Microsoft Corp.’s .Net reign as

(John Coggeshall) Welcome back to PHP Foundations. My previous column finished the crash course on using MySQL to store and retrieve data from a database using the Structured Query Language (SQL). In today’s column, I will begin to use everything I have shown you thus far to work with and create dat

(Robert Bernier) The hardest thing I had to learn, when I started working with SQL, was to speak English well. Data processing using a procedural or object-oriented programming language involves breaking down the entire operation into multiple steps. These functions, or methods, massage the data int

(Vance McCarthy) The team behind the MySQL Open Source database has launched an enterprise program designed to make it simpler and easier for enterprise IT staffs to adopt MySQL. The program, dubbed MySQL Network, provides both optimized MySQL technology, services and “fast track” answers to tec

GoldenGate and MySQL have introduced database tiering – a solution that allows you to augment your existing database infrastructure with a low-cost, high performance MySQL server farm. Database transactions are synchronized between the MySQL instances and other production databases in real-time

(Noel Davis) Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at problems in the Linux kernel, VMware, PostgreSQL, Squid, MySQL, mailman, Apple OSX HFS+, movemail with GNU Emacs or XEmancs, KStars, typespeed, awstats, and synaesthesi

(Sean Michael Kerner) MySQL AB is a company on the way up. It leads the open source database world and continues to extend its reach further and further into the enterprise.

(Andy Oram) Last night I was discussing with friends what could be the biggest barrier (or at least the biggest technical barrier) to Linux desktop adoption: the refusal of consumer device manufacturers to release specifications that allow the community to develop drivers.

(Robert Peake) This article will define two-way key cryptography and explain how it differs from other well known PHP functions, like md5 and rot13, and when it is appropriate to use one-way hashing or two-way encryption. Then we will step through installing mcrypt as a dynamically loadable extensio

(Andrew Dunstan) PostgreSQL is a high-quality, full-featured open source database that runs on a huge number of platforms. The number of possible combinations of machine architecture, operating system, system libraries, compilers, and configuration sets is truly staggering. It also has just increase