Jan 14 2009

QT is going LGPL

Holy crap batman!!!

I saw on slashdot today that Nokia is going to be releaseing QT under the LGPL license starting with version 4.5 (site). Back in the day, when I was toying with leaving the web industry and going more into traditional software developement, QT caught my eye. The thing that stopped me from diving into QT at that time, was the $5000 license fee for anything non open source.

Now that it is being released as LGPL only, there are no more entry fees. Guess I will be looking at QT again :)


Jan 7 2009

MySQL Dump Compatibility

At my current job I am constantly dumping mysql databases from a v5 server to import into a v3 server. In order for this to work, I have to dump the database in a mode that is compatible with version 3. Here is a quick reference for the compatibility modes available for mysqldump. Continue reading