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OSR: MySQL

MySQL Conference and Expo starts this week

The MySQL Conference and Expo Santa Clara, California, starts this week, April 23-26. From the MySQL web site: The 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo brings together more than 2,000 MySQL developers, users, and DBAs, and reflects MySQL's wide-ranging appeal and capabilities. The friendly, personal atmosphere of the MySQL Conference & Expo encourages users to help create the best database applications, tools, and software through expert instruction, hands-on tutorials, readily available MySQL developers, and guru business advice. Join us April 23-26 in Santa Clara, Calif. Learn more about the MySQL Conference & Expo here.

JasperSoft open source community growing
JasperSoft Corporation announced this week that more than 30,000 Business Intelligence developers have registered for JasperForge.org since it was launched in July of 2006, and over 130 BI projects have been initiated. Some of the more popular JasperForge.org projects include the Drupal Bridge for JasperReports, iReport with Hibernate, Oracle Stored Procedures, Reporting and OLAP Analysis Tools for Bugzilla, and Jasper4Eclipse, an iReport plug-in project for eclipse. More on the story from the JasperSoft Web site here.

Entrance MySQL Browser released

Entrance beta release 0.74.0 is now available. Entrance is a MySQL browser with charts, written by our own Tod Landis. It can display tables and query results as histograms, line charts, and scatter plots. Entrance also allows users to select and examine data points in charts. It supports an innovative feature called "data painting" that can be used to explore multi-dimensional data sets. Entrance is released under the GPL, and runs on Macintosh OS X, Unix, GNU/Linux, and Windoze systems with JRE 1.6. The free downloads are here: http://todlandis.com/Entrance.html.

MySQL on Mac: An ideal combination

MySQL is a widely-used database with a great reputation for speed and reliability, and Mac OS X has proven to be an ideal platform for developing MySQL-based solutions. More on the story from the Apple Developer Connection here.

Passionate about MySQL? Want to tell the world?

OSR seeks writers, bloggers, programmers or any literate being who wears his or her loyalty to MySQL, or related programs, on their sleeves. Let us provide you a soapbox. Contact us here.