As I already noted on the Liip blog, there will be a TestFest as part of the Webtuesday Hackday. So in order to better prepare things for the event I would appreciate it if people interested in joining the TestFest drop me a note via email or in a comment. See you there!

In a little app where users can create tabs and portlets in those tabs I ran into some issues with my ordered list implementation. It turns out I just misplaced a filtering expression in the WHERE clause instead of the JOIN condition. The basic idea was that I wanted to add new portlets in the left hand column at the top. The positions from the portlets actually start at 0, but what I am doing is to insert them at 1 below the current minimum or -1 if the table is empty. Then in a second query I push everything up by one. Seemed like the most efficient way to deal with concurrency. I guess in theory I could even skip pushing things up by one, but oh well.

So now that you have posted some clarifications on what is going on exactly, it seems like there is less of a problem as original thought. However I must say that the the replies you posted on Jeremy's blog (and later mine as well), you let me to believe that things are quite bad indeed. Only now that I see your two posts on /, I can relax a bit again. Matthew has written a very good summary of the situation with some historical background.

Once again Jeremy weights in on the oddity called "MySQL Enterprise Edition". This time around it seems that Sun/MySQL is moving towards making their Enterprise Edition more proprietary by including features that will never be available in the Community Edition. Not sure, but I guess they are also not providing the source to the general public (I do not remember all the details of the continued mumbo-jumbo saga surrounding this product, but maybe they already pulled the source from the public version a while ago - please correct me here). I do assume that paying customers will still get the source, though obviously not under an open source license.

I have not submitted anything for OSCON 08 and even if so, its not exactly cheap to get there. However someone recently reminded me that OSCON would be the perfect place to get a lot of useful feedback on the emPHPower vision. So I hope that someone can help me get emPHPower on the agenda at OSCON. I guess there will be opportunities for birds of feather sessions. Now the key thing is to have someone there to spearhead the thing. I cannot afford to go unless some sponsor steps up and fly's me down there and points towards a bridge to sleep under and manages to squeeze me by the guards at the door. So maybe someone else is interested in bringing up this topic at OSCON to collect some feedback, ideas and comments. Any takers?