A brief look at Sequelize, an ORM for Node.js with MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLITE3
Want to do some database code but not think too much about it? Such as, avoid SQL? You can have your SQL and a simplified model of your database thanks to a module I just found for Node.js called Sequelize. It adds an ORM-like layer on top of MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLITE3, allowing you to do database interactions using JavaScript code rather than SQL. It's fairly nice and easy to use, however I think it's likely there are some limitations to the complexity of what you can do with Sequelize.
Setting up LibreOffice to access MySQL database with JDBC driver
I wanted to try using LibreOffice Base on Mac OS X to play with a MySQL database. I thought it would be easy, just connect to the database and start doing queries, maybe even pull data into a LibreOffice spreadsheet for advanced data munging. But doing the obvious thing got me messages like "No Java Installation found" and "the driver class com.mysql.jdbc.Driver could not be found". Further, yahoogling with some obvious search phrases turned up nothing. Finally, going to LibreOffice.org and looking at the official LibreOffice Base documentation showed no instructions on setting up JDBC MySQL with LibreOffice.
