I am back for Thanksgiving ‘07. Enjoying the family and too much food. Wishing all of you the best of holidays !

I have been doing a lot of work with Java. A lot of it in getting the     C++ and Java interfaces to align. So when I went looking for a database engine, I settled on H2 for the Java engine.

    Since you can run Raydo in an application, H2 can be run in an embedded mode, as well as HSQLDB and Derby. It can also be run as a client / server and a cluster.

The ‘plugin’ was added to the Java tree.
    So looking at the benchmarks, it seems that H2 is faster than HSQLDB & Derby in the embedded space, and comparable with Postgres and MySQL in the client/server space.

    I have upgraded my main development machine. Yeah, I am on the bleeding edge, but it was worth it. XCode 3.0 required OSX 10.5 and there were a couple things in that that I wanted to use.

    So I waited almost a week to see if there were any horror stories from the bleeding bleeding edge users and that did not have a deal breaker.

   &nbspQuick review : Great OS, still a few performance problems , especially with Time machine. I expect most to be fixed when the first update comes out in a few weeks. If you are going to upgrade , wait until 10.5.1

   &nbspI also took this time to remove the last Microsoft products from my hard drive. Yeah !

About two weeks ago, we started making amalgamated header files.

It turned out to work much better than we thought, so we are going to make it the standard way for releases. So starting today, only the amalgamated version will be available for download of svn.