Moving into the user sessions on the first day at MySQL Conference 2007, I attended Building a Vertical Search Engine in a Day.

Some of my notes for reference.

Web Crawling 101

• Injection List - What is it seed URL’s you are starting from
• Fetching the pages
• Parsing the content - words and links
• Updating the crawl DB
• Whitelist
• Blacklist
• Convergence — avoiding the honey pots
• Index
• Map-reduce — split a large problem into little pieces, process in parallel, then combine results

Focused content == vertical crawl

• 20 Billion Pages out there, a lot of junk
• Bread-first would take years and cost millions of lives

Our third keynote at MySQL Conference 2007 was titled Building the Ultimate Database Container with RHEL, MySQL, and Virtualization by Michael Evans.

The presentation was on Red Hat & One Laptop Per Child. His initial Quote was “Thinking Past Platforms: The Next Challenge for Linux”, By Doc Sears, 2007-04-16 http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000210

OLPC

• A Non profit idea from Nicholas Negroponte.
• Aim is to build & distribute inexpensive laptop systems to primary & secondary school students worldwide.
• Sell to young children in developing countries.

In summary at presentation to Red Hat — “Non-profit, run by a professor, we make hardware and …

Without missing a beat at MySQL Conference 2007, we moved from Marten’s keynote to The Art of Innovation by Guy Kawasaki.

Extremely fun and entertaining. His 10 points.

1. Make Meaning

• “To change the world”
• To a VC, do not say “you want to make money”, that is understood. You will attract the wrong team.

2. Make Mantra

• Not a Mission statement (50-60 words long), but 2 or 3 words.
  • Wendy’s - “Healthy fast food”
  • Mike - “Authentic Athletic Performance”
  • FedEx - “Peace of Mind”
  • eBay - “Democratize commerce”
• Create a mantra — Why do you exist?

If you get stuck try the …

As I mentioned in MySQL Conference - Rewarding the Community, Paul McCullagh, the creator of the Community Transactional Storage Engine PBXT won the Community Code Contributor of the Year award.

A photo for Paul. Great work.

It’s an early start this morning at 8:20am at MySQL Conference 2007 with CEO Mårten Mickos keynote talk Welcome and State of MySQL AB.

Here are some of the key points that impressed on me.

“The Participatory & Disruptive spirit of the Dolphin.”.

Open Source disrupts inefficient models and produces new wealth.

Architecture of Participation.

• GPL and FOSS licenses
• Google
• del.ico.us

MySQL Architecture of Participation
You have the forge, the planet, community contributer program and many more.

Production of Amateurs

• You Tube
• Second Life
• Wikipedia

Some really great Quotes:

“Fail often to succeed …

At MySQL Conference 2007, CEO Mårten Mickos in his opening keynote Welcome and State of MySQL AB rewarded the community. Those that contributed to “The best database in the world”.

2007 MySQL Applications of the Year
#1 in Online Video
#1 in 3G Mobile Entertainment
#1 in Creative Software

And the Winners- YouTube, Amp’d mobile, and Adobe

2007 MySQL Partners of the Year
#1 reseller of MySQL Enterprise to govt
#1 in MySQL Enterprise integration
#1 in Open Source

And the Winners - Carasoft, HP, and RedHat

2007 Community Members of the Year
Quality Contributor
Community Code Contributor
Community Advocate

And the Winners

Martin Freibe
Paul …

If you were quick you may have noticed at the MySQL Conference 2007 keynote Welcome and State of MySQL AB talk this morning, Robin Schumacher in his quick demo of MySQL Monitoring & Advisory Service showed the MySQL Network Enterprise Dashboard, you would have noticed the MySQL Version 6.0.0-alpha-pb518.log

Did anybody else spot it?

It’s an early start this morning at 8:20am at MySQL Conference 2007 with CEO Mårten Mickos keynote talk Welcome and State of MySQL AB.

His spirit is evident with his opening slide “The Participatory & Disruptive spirit of the Dolphin.”. Stay tuned for more, it’s going to be a big day today.

Despite of my high load at work I decided to release mmm-1.0-pre2 today. There are some small, but critical fixes added and much more coming next week (or little bit later if mysqlconf will take more time than I think).

After the first alpha release I’ve received lots of emails, some messages in mmm-devel mail list and even some bug reports in Google Code bug tracking. One of the most asked things was documentation. So, I decided to write some posts in this blog (sorry to non-sql-related readers) and them compose some docs for final release using these posts and comments from readers. This post will be first in mmm-series and will describe how to use mmm in simple master+master scheme where one master …

I’ve been playing more with the SHOW PROFILE command available as part of MySQL Community 5.0.37. Thanks to the author Jeremy Cole. This command can provide some interesting insight into the workings of MySQL. It does however like most new releases of software enable users to make suggestions for new features and functionality. Here is my wish list. Some I figure are practical, some are wish list, but if you never ask you never know.

1. The Unit of measure for duration is Second. It would be great if it could be tuned for display, say millisecond. If you look at my first Example, all figures are effectively represented in milli-second or even micro-second granularity. …