Today I presented with Giuseppe Maxia of Sun Microsystems Inc at OSCON 08 on “MySQL Proxy: From Architecture to Implementation”. I was surprised to find that MySQL has a strong showing with a number of presentations this week.

My Normalization session seemed to go well enough.

Video is online at: http://www.mikehillyer.com/video/oscon_2008.html.

Week 7+8 (7th – 21st July)

Key Accomplishments Last Week

1. Went through the Internals Guided Tour at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_Guided_Tour completely :-)

2. Covered the first two chapters of “Expert Mysql” by Charles A.Bell which took me into the internals of mysql source code, mysql testing and benchmarking.

3. Created a page dedicated to mysql internals at http://taufiqmysql.wordpress.com/mysql-internals/

4. Gained a more detailed view of the benchmarking and mysql test suites thanks to the “expert Mysql” book by Aprèss.

5. Learnt how to created a sample test file and how to execute the test case.

Key Tasks that stalled last Week

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Week 7+8 (7th – 21st July)

Key Accomplishments Last Week

1. Went through the Internals Guided Tour at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_Guided_Tour completely :-)

2. Covered the first two chapters of “Expert Mysql” by Charles A.Bell which took me into the internals of mysql source code, mysql testing and benchmarking.

3. Created a page dedicated to mysql internals at https://taufiqmysql.wordpress.com/mysql-internals/

4. Gained a more detailed view of the benchmarking and mysql test suites thanks to the “expert Mysql” book by Aprèss.

5. Learnt how to created a sample test file and how to execute the test case.

Key Tasks that stalled last Week

Good news for everyone interested in MySQL looking to connect to fellow MySQL'ers and all opensource enthusiasts! We are organizing MySQL Camp in Bangalore on coming 29th July 2008. This is a free event open to all, so invite your friends and every one... Here is the details ... I have been circulating the following contents to every one so that it will be easier for them to forward by e-mail. Feel free to forward these contents:

What : MySQL Camp With Kaj Arno

When : 29th July 2009, 4PM - 7PM

Where : Hi-Tech Seminar Hall,
DES Block (Dept of Electrical Science)
M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Near MS Ramaiah hospital
MSR Nagar, Bangalore - 560054

Location Map: http://tinyurl.com/msrit-bangalore

RSVPs and Details are …

Good news for everyone interested in MySQL looking to connect to fellow MySQL'ers and all opensource enthusiasts! We are organizing MySQL Camp in Bangalore on coming 29th July 2008. This is a free event open to all, so invite your friends and every one... Here is the details ... I have been circulating the following contents to every one so that it will be easier for them to forward by e-mail. Feel free to forward these contents:

What : MySQL Camp With Kaj Arno

When : 29th July 2009, 4PM - 7PM

Where : Hi-Tech Seminar Hall,
DES Block (Dept of Electrical Science)
M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Near MS Ramaiah hospital
MSR Nagar, Bangalore - 560054

Location Map: http://tinyurl.com/msrit-bangalore

RSVPs and Details are …

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The timing of my last post is quite a coincidence. Here I write that the only feature out of the big 5.0 bunch I use is VIEWs and I did not really come out to say that its a must have. Actually with an ORM like Doctrine I can get more or less the same effect (then again in at least one case the point of the VIEW was to present external applications with a time dependent view of the data). So when Drizzle was announced with a cut down feature set I did not dread a single second. Actually I have been collecting articles in order to ready yet another plea to the MySQL folks to open up the development process. So all I can say is: Awesome! Welcome back in the open source world MySQL or shall I …

I didn't get a chance to go to OSCON 2008. Bummer. But I can live vicariously through google. So, along with all of the announcements you've heard from OSCON, I know present the OSCON 2008 - Google popularity contest. This is a completely unscientific survey of google hits. I was searching blogs and news. I started with just news but the blogs hits really upped the numbers.

To run these searches, I use "oscon 2008" and the search term, for example:

"oscon 2008" mysql

In the case of open source, I also quoted "open source".

I'm using google's about number. I didn't sit and count each hit. ;-)