787317
submission
Incon writes
"Builder AU reports that Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL. Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Akers has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types."
759547
submission
Incon writes
"Builder AU reports that the non-profit GNOME Foundation has hired Stormy Peters as executive director to work on strengthening the organisation by drawing in new industry members and contributors. From the article: "Having a full-time executive director means that we have someone that can sustainably use resources of the organisation to increase our reach and to broaden our relationships with the companies that are involved in GNOME and also organisations that haven't been able to have a relationship with GNOME, because they don't know how to interface with a volunteer organisation"."Link to Original Source
216149
submission
Incon writes
"Third party apps will be available on the iPhone within two weeks says a member of a growing community of iPhone hackers called geohot. From the article: "We basically have full filesystem access. I'd really like to get ssh or something similar running. The main thing standing in our way now is the Mach-O ARM toolchain.""Link to Original Source
182453
submission
Incon writes
"Google says that while there is no plan currently, eventually taking all Google properties offline with Google Gears would make sense — includes video interview with Google Australia's engineering director, Alan Noble. Noble says that the BSD licensing of Google Gears is a risk but a risk that Google is prepared to take — "We want it to be out there, we want it to be open, we want to get adoption happening as quickly as possible"."Link to Original Source
129861
submission
Incon writes
"Google is holding a day for developers to meet and learn from Google staff at its various worldwide offices. Places at the event are sure to go quicker than hotcakes, so get in quickly. Locations that Developer Day will be held at are: Beijing, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo and of course at Google HQ in Mountain View."
