There is a Linked In group I created some time ago but forgot to advertise that is for MySQL Speakers and Presenters.

If you a speaker or presenter of MySQL content, confirm your registration here.
You will need to have a reference to a website confirming you have been a speaker at a MySQL Event such as a User Conference, MySQL Camp or Local MySQL Users Group.

Hopefully overtime we can build a consolidated index at MySQL Forge Presently some pages exist including MySQL Conference & Expo and User Group Presentations but I’m accepting input for a model to have a central page, and link to or upload …

David's thoughts on app engine:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/04/app-engine-facebook-platform-o.html

What do I think? I think I need to not procrastinate by thinking about Google App Engine, instead of getting work done for the MySQL User's Conference next week.

That is a lost cause.

Here goes:

Google Apps Give people private apps under Google Apps and you will kill off a lot of department applications built around Microsoft's Access. If someone builds a "wizard" for building applications then this would go over gang buster (aka the frameworks that Borland used to build).

Lock In Yes this is the mother of all lockins for platform... or is it? I think some smart developers could build out a look a like framework. You would not have …

Reading Barons post about Kickfire Appliance and of course talking to them directly I learned a lot in their product is about beating data processing limitations of current systems.

This raises valid question how fast can MySQL process (filter) data using it current architecture ?
I decided to test the most simple case - what if we take the in memory table with very narrow row and run simple query which needs to do simple filtering - how many rows per second it will be able to do?

PLAIN TEXT SQL:

1. CREATE TABLE `m` (
2.   `i` int(11) NOT NULL
3. ) ENGINE=MEMORY DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
4.  
5. mysql> SELECT count(*) FROM m;
6. +----------+
7. | count(*) |
8. +----------+
9. |  1047684 |
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Are you interested in how to integrate the Zend Framework, Smarty and the Yahoo! UI Library into an infrastructure that makes it comfortable to develop professional web applications? Do you want to know how this infrastrucure is going to form a solid foundation for the MySQL website? And see what the future basement of db4free.net is going to look like?

And are you going to attend the MySQL Users Conference next week?

Then this is a presentation that you don't want to miss:

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Just a quick note: Kickfire is not based on SSD (solid-state device) hard drives. Their old website says “SQL goes solid state” but that just means SQL in hardware, not SSD.

When I was a child, we had a Sears Lady Kenmore clothes washing machine that boasted “solid-state circuits” on the panel, in flowery script writing. It was not based on SSD, either.

Finally, I am not on the Kickfire payroll. I’m not getting anything from working with them, except perhaps the fun of being in their labs while they’re still in stealth mode. It’s a harder balance than you might think, writing about a product that I don’t know about and am excited to learn about, and sounding objective. If I’m sounding like a fanboy, I don’t mean to. Trust me, if it’s vaporware you’ll hear it here first.

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It's just a matter of time before Ubuntu is crowned "enterprise ready" by one of the major ISVs. Will it be able to maintain its popularity once it is popular with enterprise buyers?

Ubuntu plays an increasingly important role within the larger Linux market. According to a new white paper from IDC [PDF], Linux is big business and is ready for prime time, with IDC forecasting overall spending on hardware, software, and services for Linux to increase 25.2 percent annually through 2011, particularly at the expense of Unix:

Increasingly, deployments of the Linux server operating system are expanding from infrastructure-oriented workloads to more commercially-oriented workloads such as database, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and other general business processing, workloads that historically have been the domain of Microsoft …

Sun engineers blog on the new multi-chip UltraSPARC T2 Plus systems

Today Sun is announcing new CMT-based systems, hard on the heels of the UltraSPARC T2 systems launched in October 2007 (the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 systems). Whereas previous Sun CMT systems were based around a single-socket UltraSPARC T1 or T2 processor, the new systems incorporate two processors, doubling the number of cores and the number of hardware threads compared to UltraSPARC T2-based systems. Each UltraSPARC T2 Plus chip includes 8 hardware strands in each of 8 cores, so the Operating System sees a total of 128 CPUs. The new systems deliver an unprecedented amount of CPU capacity in a package this size, as evidenced by the very …

A friend emailed me a message he had received when attempting to login to Facebook:

The message reads, Warning: Facebook detected a potential scam to steam your account!
To prevent future problems, please reset your password.

Also, I was hearing in news today that a significant percentage of scams are now targeted towards social networking sites.

Of course, it goes without saying that one should not use their "important" passwords with social networking sites.

If you haven’t already signed up to attend the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, you know you’re clearly missing out. Most tutorials in the conference have sold out, so I suggest getting to it as soon as possible. Remember, that all speakers have access to a 20% discount code, so email me if you’d like one.

Igor Babaev, is speaking on Wednesday, 16/04/2008, at 2pm, on Batched Key Access: a Significant Speed-up for Join Queries. To whet your appetite, there are also Batched Key Access Software Previews available now!

So what is Batched Key Access (BKA)? Its a new advanced technique to execute queries with multi-way join operations. The idea behind it is to accumulate several keys in a buffer, then …

To look a little bit more nice and because I do not want to spend to much time into my own blog/feed software I have decided to move all my writings to blogspot.com.
But the most interesting for me to is the readers feed back...