MediaWiki History Sparklines Greasemonkey Script

At the end of last month, I started a consulting gig with the WikiMedia Foundation. Part of the gig involves reviewing the MediaWiki docs and learning MediaWiki from a developer’s perspective. To help me more easily know when docs are out of date and to start getting a better handle on an external developer’s experience [...]

Letter to the EC on the Oracle/Sun Takeover

Dear Commissioner Kroes, Last week, former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos wrote you a letter urging approval of Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems1, asserting that Oracle’s ownership of MySQL (as part of the Sun acquisition) will increase competition in the market. As a long-time MySQL user, a former MySQL AB staff member2 and a participant in [...]

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