Lenz Grimmer's blog

JFYI, I recently updated several packages in my home:LenzGr and the devel:tools:scm repositories of the openSUSE Build Service:

• bzr (Version 0.18)
• darcs (Version 1.0.9)
• google-perftools (Version 0.92)
• KeyJnote (Version 0.10.0)
• Mercurial (Version 0.9.4)

Enjoy! And Kudos to the folks that develop and maintain the build service, this is a great service to the Community.

OSCON, the Open Source Convention organized by O'Reilly is coming up next week (July 23rd-27th, Portland, OR).

MySQL AB will be present in the exhibition area and we will also be giving some talks:

• Brian Aker: Extending MySQL, Swiss Army Knife Approach
• Kaj Arnö: The MySQL Architecture of Participation
• Mårten Mickos: The Path to IPO
• Jay Pipes: Target Practice: A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries

There are some other talks related to MySQL, that might be of interest for you:

• Brad Fitzpatrick: The Architect of Scalability
• Ben Krug: DBA Tales from the Front: from Oracle to MySQL
• Laura Thomson/Luke Welling: PHP and MySQL Best Practices
• Vadim Tkachenko/Peter Zaitsev: Landscape of Open Source Transactional Storage Engines

Just a quick heads-up - I just commited a change to the Planet MySQL code that slightly modifies how the RSS feed is being created: now the author name is put in front of each posting's title, similar to how many other feed aggregators mark the different articles. I hope you find this change useful, let me know if you experience any problems or have any other suggestions for improvements. Thanks!

Today, I again spent about an hour to revert changes made by spambots on various MySQL Forge Wiki pages. As I was really sick of this, I now installed a new plugin: reCAPTCHA - this will hopefully raise the bar for spambots to create new user accounts automatically for spamming the Wiki. If you are a registered user already, you will probably not notice the change - by default, CAPTCHAs are only displayed on the following events:

• New user registration
• Anonymous edits that contain new external links
• Brute-force password cracking

Let's hope it helps! Please let me know if you still experience spam problems on the Wiki.