Today I was chatting with a technical friend, and she mentioned that she has a “todo” of writing a decent node.js driver for MySQL. A bit more chatting back and forth, and http://nodejsdb.org/db-drizzle/ was discovered. It was written to use libdrizzle and drizzled, but since libdrizzle can talk to MySQL, it should work for her [...] [...more]
We have had several users report issues with libdrizzle lately, but on closer inspection it has been found they are using an old version with known problems. Back in October we merged libdrizzle into the main drizzle trunk. All libdrizzle development since then has happened in drizzle rather than the separate libdrizzle project. We had [...] [...more]
Thanks to Jobin’s work with mingw and getting libdrizzle to compile on Windows at all, I have been able to get it working in Visual Studio natively. The code is in trunk now. The approach I took, which is how I’m going to approach Windows and Visual Studio for all of our stuff, is to [...] [...more]
lately I started thinking from a users point of view.Web developers want to try drizzle. but many of them got windows platform for devleopment.So they are not able to connect to drizzle server so started seaching for options. found that i have 3 options.1. Native compile the source using MinGW.2. Take the help of cygwin [...] [...more]
Recently, Jobin took up the mantle of starting to poke at Windows support for Drizzle. We decided that step 1 is getting libdrizzle building on Windows – not to mention we could solve a few systemic "how to go about it" problems on a much simpler codebase. We decided to go the mingw route – [...] [...more]
