Weekly snap: From Twitter, Prowl or Goo, to Grapher & birthday no. 2

July 20-24 achieved remarkable blogging frenzy, confirming Julian’s statistics as we hit the 2nd Blog anniversary on Monday.  In suit, Julian posted part 3 of his Nagios Notifications series with a look at Prowl – a Growl client for iPhone and a run down on how to push Nagios alerts to them.
Keeping with the series, Bernd E rattled off the first 2 posts of his Twitter Development series, attributing the newest worldwide fad’s success to its simple and complete API. He started with a how-to on building connections with Twitter4J, the most complete and active Java API for Twitter he could find. But before all of this, Bernd gave an insider tip for the MySQL lazy to identify and eliminate bottlenecks via a handy little perl script called MySQL Tuner.
In between, Marius distracted us with a new addictive Linux game known as World of Goo, but thankfully after pre-releasing NETWAYSGrapher RC3. He highlighted massive improvements to the collector load and memory consumption and announced a new RRD-XML import to simplify the migration of existing data. Check it out, packed and ready for download at netways.org.
To top it off, Christian F updated us on the upcoming OSMC (aka Nagios Conference) program with an impressive list of speakers from the Nagios community inland and abroad. He reminded us to submit a paper or register before 31 July, because as you know: the early bird catches the 100€ discount.