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End of class, another certification, and new classes

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In what feels like forever ago, my 2nd semester ended on Dec. 16. The semester consisted of ASP.net I & II, XML Web Services, and SQL. The XML class was interesting as it was the first time that I had actually played with XSLT. The rest I had done before, so it was another easy semester which ended with a 4.0 GPA.

In November I successfully completed the two required exams to earn the Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5.0 Developer. And continuing along, I’m in the process of studying for the companion, Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5.0 Database Administrator exams. I have already passed one, and hope to take the next exam in the coming week. After that, I will most likely move on to the Oracle 10g Database certifications.

On Monday, Jan. 3rd, I began my third and final semester for the Associate’s Degree program. The next four months will consist of Java, Visual C#, and Visual Basic .NET. If those 15 credit hours weren’t enough, I’m taking 8 additional hours (23 credit hours total) of general education. Yup, it’s going to be a busy, busy semester.

Why the extra hours? The 8 hours that I am taking will allow me to skip a complete semester in the Bachelor’s program. By the time I earn my Bachelor’s degree, I will have skipped two entire semesters… that’s eight months of less school, or to put it another way I will have my 4 year degree in 2 years.

MySQL Sold For $1 Billion

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Sun Microsystems will spend $1,000,000,000 ($1 Billion) to buy the open source database MySQL. According to C|Net, the deal includes about $800 Million in cash to purchase the privately held stock, and about $200 Million to pick up the remaining options. As C|Net points out, there is a fairly interesting twist to all of this. Sun Microsystems has partenered with Oracle and sells support services for PostgreSQL. Both Oracle and PostgreSQL are in direct competition with MySQL. Sun says that they will continue the relationship they have with both companies.

Playing with PHP

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Well, I’m finally getting some room to play with things at work now that Joe (my old boss) is out of the picture. An old “Hazard Screening Form” that I had originally created is in need of some work. I’ve managed to talk my new boss into letting me give it a try in PHP. First thing is to figure out how to get PHP installed on Oracle’s Apache Server… something they don’t support. :/