Boy am I thrilled.

OSCON, back in the old days, was the Mekka for open source developers. Glorious but out of reach and too far away. I don’t know if that image holds true still, but judging the enthusiastic reports by previous attendees, it does. And this year I will be able to attend.

I will not only be able to attend, I will even give a presentation. You can guess the topic of course and I don’t want to stretch this post into advertising CouchDB yet again. (I’ll leave that to other posts :-)

This is a heads-up for all the friends and colleagues I’ve known and worked with for quite a few years now but haven’t had a chance to meet in a while. If you are coming to OSCON, please get in touch ( …

Week 5 (23rd – 30th June)

Key Accomplishments Last Week

1. Got Brian’s feedback regarding rearranger.c and discussed how to proceed further.

2. Successfully overcame all errors one by one, obtained while building mysql from source on Ubuntu and understood the process more clearly. I had done this a few weeks back but since I have not done any hard-core stuff on Linux before, it took some time again.

3. Understood clearly the steps involved in installing mysql and created a help page at http://taufiqmysql.wordpress.com/47/ for the common errors found while installing.

Key Tasks that stalled last Week

1. Crash!!! My system had crashed while …

Week 5 (23rd – 30th June)

Key Accomplishments Last Week

1. Got Brian’s feedback regarding rearranger.c and discussed how to proceed further.

2. Successfully overcame all errors one by one, obtained while building mysql from source on Ubuntu and understood the process more clearly. I had done this a few weeks back but since I have not done any hard-core stuff on Linux before, it took some time again.

3. Understood clearly the steps involved in installing mysql and created a help page at https://taufiqmysql.wordpress.com/47/ for the common errors found while installing.

Key Tasks that stalled last Week

1. Crash!!! My system had crashed while …

Week 4(16th June – 23rd June)

Key Accomplishments Last Week

1) With reference to the article on http://krow.livejournal.com/483041.html I created a program that rearranges the output of mysqlslap and named it ‘rearranger.c’.

2) Also added some interesting options to ‘rearranger’ to accept command line input and to rearrange virtually any row or column on any type of csv file.

3) Registered myself for MysqlUniversity.

Key Tasks that stalled Last Week

1) Tried to register for the session on Advanced Lua scripting on 3rdJuly but was unable to as I kept getting a “Database error (SQL query hidden) “. Unable to figure out what that was.

Key Concerns

None

Tasks in the Upcoming Week

1) Will start working on …

Week 4(16th June – 23rd June)

Key Accomplishments Last Week

1) With reference to the article on http://krow.livejournal.com/483041.html I created a program that rearranges the output of mysqlslap and named it ‘rearranger.c’.

2) Also added some interesting options to ‘rearranger’ to accept command line input and to rearrange virtually any row or column on any type of csv file.

3) Registered myself for MysqlUniversity.

Key Tasks that stalled Last Week

1) Tried to register for the session on Advanced Lua scripting on 3rdJuly but was unable to as I kept getting a “Database error (SQL query hidden) “. Unable to figure out what that was.

Key Concerns

None

Tasks in the Upcoming Week

1) Will start working on …

Berlin has a long history of blooming user groups and the Erlang User Group Berlin will be no exception!

That’s right, Germany’s capital and one of the nicest places to be in Europe (among all the other nice places, hooray for plurality) finally has place for Erlang enthusiasts. That is in fact a pleonasm, I haven’t found a single soul yet who is not enthusiastic about working with Erlang, but what do I know?

Anyway.

Join the discussion group and help to pick a date for meetings.

If you are an Erlang developer on visit in Berlin, let us know, so we can have an out-of-order meeting with you.

Sorry if that shows up at a seemingly non-related planet feed, this is a spam measure and won’t happen again. Thanks for your patience.

Boy am I thrilled.

OSCON, back in the old days, was the Mekka for open source developers. Glorious but out of reach and too far away. I don’t know if that image holds true still, but judging the enthusiastic reports by previous attendees, it does. And this year I will be able to attend.

I will not only be able to attend, I will even give a presentation. You can guess the topic of course and I don’t want to stretch this post into advertising CouchDB yet again. (I’ll leave that to other posts :-)

This is a heads-up for all the friends and colleagues I’ve known and worked with for quite a few years now but haven’t had a chance to meet in a while. If you are coming to OSCON, please get in touch ( …

And for some lucky circumstances, I am also a speaker.
I will join Ronald Bradford on the podium, to speak about (surprise surprise!) MySQL Proxy, from architecture …

Sheeri Kritzer Cabral sent out a tweet yesterday wishing she could change the default MySQL exit text from “Bye” to “kthxbai!”. I figured that it was something that could be quickly done using a pager, but that turned out not to work because it is written after the pager would have been called. [...]

Last weekend I finally found some time to upload pictures that I had taken during various events that I attended in the past few months. So here are my impressions from the following events:

• PHP Unconference in Hamburg on 2008-04-26
• MySQL Meetup Mashup in Hamburg, 2008-04-07
• MySQL Meetup Mashup in Berlin, 2008-04-08
• MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 in Santa Clara, 2008-04 (these are available from …