Weekly snap: Install, review and release – NConf, Workbench and Heatmap

June 29 – July 3 saw the release of MySQL Workbench 5.1 with a few honest thoughts from Bernd E on the former DBDesigner. After testing the community version, he discovered that Reverse Engineering is also available there just as in the standard version, contrary to the official website’s feature list. All in all Bernd gave us the thumbs up – if only for the colour coded foreign key relationships in the ER Modeller. To add to this, Bernd posted his Linux Day presentation slides on ‘XEN in high availability environments’ with praxis oriented solutions, free for all.
Julian showed us how to install NConf on Debian Lenny in 6 easy steps while hardware guru Martin K introduced the Mess PC alternative to email and SMS monitoring notifications – Switch Module 230V 16A won’t go unnoticed with acoustic and visual alerts for those noisy workplaces.
Just in case one new release is not enough, William proudly presented the Generate-a-Heatmap-with-data-from-the-NDO-Database Addon for Nagios / Icinga, aptly dubbed NETWAYS Heatmap for all to download.