IBM releases 9th article - and provides support for DB2 Express-C
robertDouglass - October 17, 2006 - 13:26
IBM's authors have been writing a fantastic series of articles about Drupal. They just released the 9th installment where they investigate Drupal's database abstraction layer in some depth. As an added bonus, they give us a little gift: new support for an important database - IBM DB2 Express-C. Thanks, IBM!
IBM DB2 Express-C support
Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that the support for DB2 is preliminary and there may be subtle bugs here and there. With that said we think the code and schema are an excellent jumping off point for those of you that need DB2 support for Drupal.
Thanks for reading our series, we're having a lot of fun writing it.
Thanks
Glad you're having fun. They are very nice write ups. And thanks for the jumping off point. It's usually how things get started and finished around here.....someone actually submitting something, even with a few bugs, so that others can "tweak" and "stabalize" it. I haven't played with DB2 in a while, but I do know it's an excellent database system. Perhaps it's time for me to 'play' again with it :).
Oh Joy
Oh joy. :). 1 down, 2 to go (Oracle/MSSQL). Yummy. :). Thanks IBM. And very nice write ups.
Very Nice. Dugg I was so
Very Nice. Dugg
I was so nice to know that after I spent three months researching CMSs for my concepts, IBM validated my choice in Drupal.
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Random Drupal articles on Digg
Do we really need to post this on Digg? The article has absolutely no relevance to people who are not into Drupal already, and they can find out about it here just as easily. If I were a digg user who did not care about Drupal, I'd consider this inappropriate spam.
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agreed
while it is indeed a way to get more traffic to us, I dont think
1) we need that kind of users at our place per se
( I rather see "them" activly searching for Drupal or CMS-es then clicking a Digg -surfinacrowd- link)
2) from the digg.com community pov, it is not really relevant to post stuff like this and promote it with dozens of drupal users.
(note that I have been doing this in the past as well)
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Positive comments
The comments on Digg are all very positive. And the people who vote for it using the plugin here are, in fact, Digg users. At some point you have to really decide whether it is worth it, feeling sorry for the poor Digg users, or whether bringing attention to very cool technological articles is also an easy way to publicize the work that the Drupal community is doing.
I'm all in favor of a unified policy for how we market ourselves, and if I get a vote, I'll vote for opening more channels like Digg, right here on the site. Hiding in our corner and waiting for "them to come to us" doesn't really help our cause.
- Robert Douglass
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If I'm not mistaken...
posting articles on your site and having users digg them to juice them up over there IS the whole point of Digg. That's the only reason for a site owner to add a digg link pretty much, right?
Sounds like more of an issue with the spammy nature of digg itself perhaps than the way its spammy nature works...
Would certainly think that when new Drupal release come out the community here wouldn't want to deprive itself of the massive publicity that it would get after 1000 of us dugg it. (maybe some can share how much traffic the recent 5.0 code freeze announcement generated??? I know we dugg it heavily.)
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Digg discretion
I'm not saying we should never post to digg: something like a 5.0 release is obviously a much more newsworthy event than this.
I'm just saying that people should think before posting and that they should make sure it is interesting for a general audience. The fact that this item did not even get 200 diggs is IMO a sign that it is not very interesting to others, as a large chunk of those 200 are probably drupal.org users using the widget here.
The only news mentioned in the digg snippet is that IBM wrote a db abstraction plug-in for Drupal, for their own database system. If you're not a Drupal user, you're not going to care about this at all, as it is something which you can only use if you're at least familiar with the system. And honestly, I'd never heard of DB2 before this article and couldn't care less about that specific database. The interesting part about this whole affair, namely that IBM has been writing a long and in-depth series on how to use and develop on open-source, is not mentioned at all!
Similarly, if we release Drupal 5.0 and post it to digg, it should be aimed at non-users: it should explain a) what Drupal is b) what makes it good and c) what makes 5.0 worth checking out. It should not just be some self-indulgent post saying that "The Drupal community has released another installment of their fabulous software. Hip hip hooray! Amazing! Wow!".
We want to avoid the effect of 'boy who cried wolf', because then people automatically ignore anything Drupal-related.
Good points
Thanks for clarifying.
- Robert Douglass
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the public wants what the public gets
and despite all "user generated content" and "web 2.0" visions, this article broke the 200 barrier.
but the number per se has nothing to do with your "boy who cried wolf" effect. we shoulkd stop crossposting /all/ articles from drupal.org to digg and the likes and use it when we do see a wolf.
Huuuwwwooo!
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Eye of the Beholder
Steven,
I agree and know what you are saying. However, to some this *is* big news. My friend who works at IBM didn't even know about it until he saw it on Digg, and is excited about it. I found this to be very interesting also. Ok, so it did not get a lot of "Diggs" as some other postings do, but I have not seen that many Drupal items on digg, and a new database support is a mile-stone. This is not to say that we should post a new "patch" to Digg, but posting something that is telling the world "Hey, Drupal can now work with even more databases!" will make others take a second look, and open more possibilities.
Example, If there was a posting about a new Drupal 5.0 release, some may skip over it becaues to their knowledge, Drupal only supports mysql/pgsql databases, and never look twice.
I do agree that perhaps more information in the digg posting about what the posting is about would help though. I've worked with DB2/Informix a few times, and I was honestly glad to hear IBM had tackled a drupal db abstraction for it. :). DB2 has some wicked crazy SQL/XML features if any wants to read more about it.
great news
I just wish the digg button was floated to the right or left.
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We all know what this means
SAP integration for Drupal. wh00t!
This could have a lot of cool benefits:
- Drupal authenicating against SAP user accounts
- SAP as a backend CRM system for Drupal sites
- Triggers off DB2 (which are much cooler than MySQL triggers - no offence)
Just starting to think about the possibilities here...
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