lefred

lefred

I am MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. I joined the MySQL Community Team in May 2016. I have been an OpenSource and MySQL consultant for more than 15 years. My favorite topics are High Availability and Performance.

A very nice product !

Wow... what a wonderful product !

Being tired of using gq that segfault every 2 times... I was searching for a good solution to retrieve and modify data from an openldap directory. (with an AD gq crashes even every time !) :(

And I found THE product I was looking for : ldapvi !!

Being a vi lover, I was very happy to find the way to modify data from an ldap directory with vi commands !

Syntax Example:

Jabber and PHP

After a chat with a colleague trying to code in python because he wanted to implement some Jabber application I decided to search some PHP solution.

I've found class.jabber.php from Nathan Fritz.

It's very easy to implement and fun to play with, I've put a sample here.

Have fun with it ;-)

Linux Desktop Firewall

Mandriva 2006 is provided with an interactive firewall available directly the desktop.

This solution is available only for mandriva at the moment but a cvs version of the deamon (mandi) is available too.

It's based on :

Watching Free TV

Nice Python project to watch free TV on the Net.

With this tool http://televidilo.bouil.org/ you can watch web streams even on fullscreen. I didn't try it yet on my own machine (I have a tv card), but I'll try it on my laptop.

Even if Belgium will not participate to the Mundial... Thanks to this program we'd maybe see some games at work if there are no firewall troubles ;-)

PHP : Objects and XML

Just some nice example to show how to create an XML output from an object. And also create an object from an XML source.

Do be able to run those example, you must install the PEAR packages called XML/Serializer.

First example, creation of the XML output:

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