1. instructions I used - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/installing-binary.html
2. to create a group in 10.5 - use dscl. In my case ‘dscl . -create /groups/mysql’
3. to create a user in 10.5 - again use dscl. ‘dscl .-create /Users/mysql’
4. I had to make /usr/local with mkdir -m 775
5. I did not have to decompress things since the Mac did it for me - but I did have to place it in my Library dir and make the ln to it in my /usr/local dir
6. DO NOT FORGET to give your root user a password and either drop the anonymous user or put a password on it!

Other notables (yes I am a server noob):

• start the deamon with ’sudo bin/mysqld_safe –user=mysql &’
• If you forget the ampersand at the end - use cntl+z to escape then use ‘bg’ to put the deamon in the background
• stop the deamon with ‘bin/mysqladmin -u root shutdown’

Other notes to self on having multiple versions available:

1. option 1 - have multiple binary installs in their own folders and just change the ln.. or have multiple ln with individual names. since I do not need to have all of them running at one time - I can start and stop the deamons as I need.
2. option 2 - is provided in the manual at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/multiple-servers.html

Anyway - for those that will be there, make sure to stop by our booth and pick yourself up a PHPWomen sticker (for your laptop, car, bag or anywhere else you can think of). Or if you just want to talk about what we are and what we are doing or the weather - that is great too. Come out and meet me!

Mentors - if I missed you please send me an email to update it or feel free to add yourself to the wiki.

Also we have moved the listing of the User Groups to the wiki so if your user group is participating and not listed - again let me know if you want to be added or add yourself to the testfest wiki page.

Edit: forgot to mark it as PHP. Ooops.

So to everyone who kept telling me I would get the job when I swore there was no way (you know who you are) - feel free to tell me “I told you so” next time we talk - and first beer is on me when we meet.

So if you feel the need to learn a bit more about foreign keys and what they can do for you the coder - be sure to check out my article on them at c7y

It will be held on April 5 and 6 at Wall St Plaza. The 5th will be dedicated to Developers and the 6th to various media (film, photo, etc.). For more information on it be sure to check out their site - http://www.barcamporlando.org/ Registration is now open for any who want to go.

Unfortunately I will not be able to attend - niece will be participating in a gymnastics state championship that weekend in Tampa. Family comes before playing.

You can even use wildcards in the column name. From a different database (note you have to have the perms to access the alternate database):


DESCRIBE Db.table column;


Example from my test db:

mysql> describe lig_test.student guardianship;
+--------------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field        | Type    | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| guardianship | char(1) | NO   |     |         |       |
+--------------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
1 row in set (0.08 sec)

mysql> describe lig_test.student 'guard%';
+----------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field          | Type     | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| guardian_photo | longblob | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| guardianship   | char(1)  | NO   |     |         |       |
+----------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------+
2 rows in set (0.01 sec)

The conference ran from 8:30AM - 5PM and had 12 different sessions with 3 keynote presentations. There seemed to be about 150- 200 people (saw all together maybe 10 women) in attendance with representatives of Redhat, Ubuntu, and gentoo in booths along with various other companies both local and linux centric (like Linux Journal and the local LUG).

The sessions I attended were quite interesting. I particularly enjoyed “Software as a Service: Implications of Web Apps for Software Freedom” by Mr. Gavin Baker for the interesting questions it raised on web applications being closed source though they are built on the popular open source tools and languages. Until then I never realized how closed source a site is - which goes completely counter to FOSS like PHP.

All in all a good time and I will be back again next time.