Comments on: Writing a book about Maatkit

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:08:57 +0000

Thanks Mark! I think mytop is pretty much an eclipsed project these days; check out innotop. It could use some updates too, to work better with the recent versions of the InnoDB Plugin. If you want to work on that, hop on the mailing list and say hi.

By: Mark Grennan

Mark Grennan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:07:02 +0000

This is the book I’ve been looking for. For Real! I read and reviewed “MySQL Admin Cookbook” and thought it was half baked. I thought it need more Maat.

If you need help in any way I’m in. I’ve been adding fixes and updates to MyTOP but I havn’t gotten Jeremy to reply to my email. I’ve posted my work on MySQLFanBoy.com/mytop.

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:48:24 +0000

It got put on hold just before the holidays, when I unexpectedly started to travel a lot. After the holidays there were meetings and conferences, and I’m planning to get back to it Real Soon Now.

By: Barry Poudrier

Barry Poudrier — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:39:41 +0000

Hello Baron,

I was wondering if there was an updated status to this book? I’d be very much interested in it!

Regards,

Barry

By: Joe Devon

Joe Devon — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:30:08 +0000

Excellent idea.

From what I hear, technical writers are barely paid relative to the effort they put in to do the work. Which is mind blowing considering how expensive technical books are.

If more authors would come up w/ innovative models like yours and we had a proper e-book reader w/o such crushing DRM, I’m sure a lot more books would be bought and read and more money would reach the pockets of the authors, who deserve the bulk for their hard work.

Bravo Baron.