Typography for Lawyers is a cool use of WordPress for a mini-book. Hat tip: Scots Law Student.
Apr
18
2010
Apr
18
2010
A friend just emailed some suggestions what to do while stuck in SF:
20+ campfires on Ocean Beach ------------------------------------------------- A fun thing to do any Friday or Saturday night after about 8pm until after midnight is go to Ocean Beach where hundreds of people make 20+ campfires (folks are friendly -- just walk up and introduce yourself and join some group's campfire or walk between many -- bring some beer or snacks to share if you want to). This beach is at the intersection of Great Highway and Fulton street, San Francisco
Apr
17
2010
It's not notes about the Conference itself, but about Performance :-) There were many topics discussed and presented around InnoDB performance during UC2010, but time was limited to start long talks as another session interesting as well should start within 5 min :-))
So I've prepared a short summary with some points I consider important on configuring InnoDB to run it optimally, but if I missed something, or you don't agree with me - please comment! :-))
Storage layout - I strongly advice you to separate your data and redo logs, and place them on the different storages/arrays/disks.. - Why?.. - just because of the different I/O nature: redo log activity will mainly generate sequential writes, while data reads/writes are mainly random (specially indexes) - so if you mix these I/O activities together you'll have worse performance for sure (even if you use SSD).. As well if you have binlog activated - don't forgot to place it …
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Apr
17
2010
10. a swarm of geeks storming a hotel bar is awe
inspiring
09. openly shared information is a beautiful thing
08. i got to be star struck when meeting and greeting
luminaries
07. only to find out they know about my
comany/projects/name
06. met clients/peers/vendors whom i only knew via
email/im/twitter
05. i could describe what i do and get articulate questions
in return
04. i learned new ways to contribute to the community
03. i met new people and made new connections
02. i shared opportunities/challenges i face and got new
perspectives and ideas
01. i talked to smart people excited about shared interests
and was inspired
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Apr
17
2010
If you are a MySQL conference attendee who cannot get back home to Europe, you can find other fellow MySQLrs at this page on MySQL forge. Please use it as a central hub to organize gettogethers like dinners. Or why not take the opportunity for a hackathon?
As for myself, my BA flight is canceled and there is no way to even rebook (160 minute waiting line to call BA). I will have my travel agent rebook the flight on Monday European business hours. Until then, I'm stuck indefinitely in California.
Apr
17
2010
Peter and Arjen will be at DrupalCon SF 2010. Peter specifically for the event, Arjen staying around the SF area after the MySQL Conference last week.
Specifically, we’ll be talking with people about using the OQGRAPH engine to help with social graphs and other similar problems, easily inside Drupal. You may recall that Peter already created the friendlist_graph extension for the friendlist Drupal module.
From the MySQL Conf and other earlier feedback, OQGRAPH is proving to be a real enabler. And since it’s free/GPLv2 and integrated in MariaDB 5.2, there’s generally no hindrance in starting to use it.
Apr
17
2010
In this note I'll show how to use the color palettes in
"slide:ology" by Nancy Duarte (those of us who spoke at the MySQl
Conference received it as a nice gift from O'Reilly).
Step 1 is to download Entrance Community edition from our web
site: http://dbentrance.com/. You need JRE 1.6 or better
and access to a MySQL server to run it. Simply unzip the download
and start the program with "java -jar entrance.jar".
To make a chart, click "New" and enter a PLOT command:
plot
axislabels, red bar, blue bar, green bar
select "label", 1, 2, 3;
The SELECT part of the command can be almost any MySQL SELECT
statement. (e.g. unfortunately you can't change delimiters
yet).
Click "Run" and you have the chart. Now to replace those
eye-scorching colors with something better from the book. Take a
look at the section "Using the Power of …
Apr
17
2010
I am back home from a good week at the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL
Conference & Expo. I had a great time and got to see some old
friends I had not seen in a while.
Oracle gave the opening keynote and it went pretty much like I
thought it would. Oracle said they will keep MySQL alive. They
talked about the new 5.5 release. It was pretty much the same
keynote Sun gave last year. Time will tell what Oracle does with
MySQL.
The expo hall was sparse. Really sparse. There were a fraction of
the booths compared to the past. I don't know why the vendors did
not come. Maybe because they don't want to compete with
Oracle/Sun? In the past you would see HP or Intel have a booth at
the conference. But, with Oracle/Sun owning MySQL, why even try.
Or maybe they are not allowed? I don't know. It was just
sad.
I did stop by the Maatkit booth and was embarrassed to tell …
Apr
17
2010
Apr
17
2010
We were honored to give a closing keynote talk at MySQL Conference & Expo 2010, and wanted to share the video with you. Why start a new database company? What is RethinkDB all about? What will database technology look like twenty years from now? In this talk we explore these questions, present some of the exciting technology we’ve been developing at RethinkDB, and show how it fits into our larger vision of what database systems may look like in the future.