Video for the presentation at the 2009 MySQL Camp:
Top 10 MySQL Pet Peeves and How to Workaround Them
Jeremy Zawodny
Watch it online here:
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Apr
22
2009
Apr
22
2009
Earlier today I did the presentation Memcached Meet Flash, the pluggable engine interface, and if you missed it you can download the slides. It is kind of fun to think back on the hackathon at the users conference the last year when Toru shared his ideas about a storage interface, followed by the interesting discussion I had with Matt during the OpenSolaris summit down in Santa Clara. I didn't know back then that I would present this at the users conference this year :-)
My brother came down for my presentation and took the following picture with his iPhone during the session:
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Apr
22
2009
The penultimate day of UC exams is slowly coming to an end. A fresh crop of Developer, DBA, and Cluster DBAs certifications have been earned in the eighty plus exams taken today. Tomorrow is the last day for the deeply discounted price of $25 for the examinations. Your Certification Team will be ready at eight tomorrow!
Apr
22
2009
No, this is not about some weird socket issue or a misspelling of
SpockProxy or something like that. I'm talking
about socks.
As some of my readers know, I've been on a backpacking tour across the United States and
Canada visiting universities talking about MySQL. So yes, I'm
literally travelling with a backpack and have all my clothes on
my back. Well. No longer. Apparently my socks have been left
somewhere inbetween Chicago and California. Damn you Sock Gnomes!
It's okay. Rich Taylor of MySQL came to my rescue. I am now sock
happy. Lots of technical MySQL Conf articles, lots of angst right
now, I thought I would post a non-traditional MySQL UC story.
Death to Sock Gnomes!!!!!
Apr
22
2009
The Memcached talk went down well and I was pleased that a number of people said how they could now understand how memcached could help them in their applications. This is really why I do these things - so that others can see the benefits of tools like memcached. It has worked well for us at MySQL.com and it obviously worked well for its originators at livejournal.
Original post blogged on b2evolution.
Apr
22
2009
A complete and unadulterated dump of what was being talked about, I hope I got the right names and people, comment if anything out of sorts here, the Forge links talked about are here: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Contributing
The BoF session was hosted by Lenz Grimmer and Tomas Ulin of
MySQL
MySQL Community contributor BoF. About 15 people.
Lenz: Trying to open up, make internal processes trasnsparent,
make discussions public, how does code evolve, reviewed etc
before release. Lenz shows the "golden rules"
transparency - what's going to happen, how it will be accepted,
make it clear to the contributor.
dialog - Lenz admits many patches during the review over the last
few months haven't even been acknowledged and are going through
the backlog to discover whether any dialog has been done wven if
it is to …
Apr
22
2009
Today Allan and I presented "Optimizing MySQL Performance with ZFS" talk at MySQL Conference 2009. You can get the slides here (I have uploaded it to the conference website also)
Like I said during the talk, I will blog about ZFS comparisons with EXT3 when I have a chance to do the tests. Thanks for attending!
Apr
22
2009
Today Allan and I presented "Optimizing MySQL Performance with ZFS" talk at MySQL Conference 2009. You can get the slides here (I have uploaded it to the conference website also)
Like I said during the talk, I will blog about ZFS comparisons with EXT3 when I have a chance to do the tests. Thanks for attending!
Apr
22
2009
I caught up with Zach Skyles Owens, a PHP Evangelist at Microsoft. If you missed the embed, watch the video. I have some sparse notes below.
I learned some new things:
- Microsoft spends time working with the PHP community
- They are porting applications to work with an SQL Server backend
- They are ensuring that the language should “just work”, with the IIS and SQL Server stack. This is quite different from the usual AMP (Apache = server, MySQL = database, PHP = language) stack that we’re quite accustomed to.
- There is a Microsoft Web Platform, and there’s a Web Application Gallery, that brings in …
Apr
22
2009
John Powell from eMapSite stopped by at the Whisper Suite in
MySQL
Users Conference earlier today to talk about his GlassFish issue. The
possible workaround was suggested and then the discussion became
interesting on how GlassFish is used for offshore monitoring of
windfarms and process weather forecasting data. Hear all about it
and watch a flashy demo of their product in this video:
NetBeans,
GlassFish, and MySQL is their development stack with a "very
positive experience"!
Stay tuned for the stories entry.
And the complete picture album is available at:
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