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One thing that still springs to mind when I think of the MySQL User Conference last week is Sun's opening keynote. While talking about Sun's market penetration with open source software, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's CEO, slipped in a short mention of the mobile market saying something along the lines of "Sun is going to be entering the mobile market later on this year". He didn't spend more than 5 seconds talking about it, moving on to the acquisition of MySQL.

Last year, Sun already made an announcement of JavaFX, a Java-based mobile platform but didn't provide any concrete timelines, so I was excited to hear the more on the subject. With Apple iPhone's advent last year and Google entering the same space later on this year with Android, Sun's addition to the game definitely won't hurt consumers. After all, competition usually leads to better products.

So when is the phone coming, Jonathan? My guess is you're going to try as hard as possible to compete with Google's second half of 2008 timeline but are you going to manage to beat it? And will it blow us away? I guess time will show.

Updated: April 2nd, 2008

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svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5

and Beer Planet is on 2.5. There were no problems with the upgrade itself or any of the plugins. Great work on the new clean interface and multi-file upload, Wordpress!

Info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.5 (short) and http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/ (more detailed)

Updated: December 17th, 2007

An adorable group of orphaned baby owls have been adopted by a silly-looking stuffed toy owl, after they were found on the brink of death in the wild. You have to see the photo to believe it - you will die of cuteness!

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Are you dead yet?

I've recently installed eAccelerator on the web server that hosts this site and I wanted to share some of my impressions after a few days.

• What does it do? Nobody put it better than the eAccelerator team itself: "eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times."
• Does it work? Hell yes. beerpla.net loads on average twice as fast as before. The results are consistent, so I'm very impressed.
• Ease of installation. Extremely easy. Compilation from source tarball, adding a few lines into php.ini, and apache restart is all it takes. Full instructions here.
• Feedback from companies who have installed eAccelerator is here. It's hosted by eAccelerator themselves but seems to be legit.

/End of short note