Planet marks

There have been some really cool postings at PlanetMySQL that I have been wanting to read and blog about. However, since I have been really busy (temporarily), I haven't had the chance to do so. Following is the list of posts I really liked, or would like to read at some later point.

• Podcast at Splunk.com: Brian Aker, Dana Gardner and Michael Baum talk about troubleshooting. (Thanks Markus)
  
• Zack pointed out that Sun is planning to Open Source Java
• MySQL Statement Log Analyzer (SLA) v 1.2 is now available.
• Sheeri is doing some really cool stuff that as Markus said reminds us " how simple SQL is". If you are attending OSCon, be sure to attend her session, "So you've inherited a MySQL instance on UNIX"
• Beat's post on logging incoming MySQL connections to a table.
• Jay and Mike's podcast at DBAZine
• Also checkout Storage Engines and Data Types chapter
  
• Peter Zaitsev, whose session I attended and enjoyed a lot at the conference, has now a new blog, MySQL Performance Blog.
• Podcasts from Tiecon
• Neat tricks and tips from Sheeri
• Lenz is talking about OSS Licensing and enforcing trademarks
• Mike Hillyer shows how to build a outbound link tracker.
• Partha Dutta has a post about Multi-Server Partitioning
• Sheeri on Open Source and Money
• Matt talks about A downside to Open Source
• Zack discusses Business Week's article: On demand and Open Source
• Mike has an article on MySQL Scale-Up Plan
• Kristian talks about How to blog for a planet
• Stewart posted about How auto_increment is implemented in NDB
• Sheeri has a great post on Selectivity and Index Performance
  
• Brian makes some good database reading suggestions that I would like to try (Post more please)
  
• Jay: Extending MySQL GUI Tools
  
• Brian: Backing up data...
  
• Brian: Thoughts on Flat Files vs. Databases
  
• Sheeri: E-mail address validator
  
• Brian: Database War Stories 9 and Part 8 and Part 5 Craigslist and Part 3 Flickr
  
• Robin: New CSV Engine
• Partha: MySQL backup script
• Ronald: The 4 F's
• Taneli: Free hot backups for MySQL
• Sheeri: One thing MERGE tables are good for
• Mike: DBA Code of Ethics
• Jeremy: Computing Distance in Miles
• TIm: MySQL and DB job market
• Ronald: Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu
• Jeremy: MySQL UC Gallery
• Ronald: MySQL for Oracle Developers
• Mike: Falcon
• Sheeri: Falcon and Extending MySQL
  
• Mike: Django
• Mike: Scaling with Mixi
  
• Sheeri: Writing Storage Engines
  

Phew! that's a long list. Many more cool posts that I haven't had the chance to read closely. I will blog about them later. Hopefully they will remain at PlanetMySQL until I have read them ;)


Thanks
Frank