Time was invented so everything doesn't happen at once -- S.
Wright
Next week is the MySQL Users Conference and getting ready to deliver six
plus sessions of exams is quite an exercise in logistics. There
are six scheduled sessions. We have only so many seats
and so much time for the tests so those of you planning to take
an exam need to plan accordingly.
You will find us in the Magnolia Room in the Hyatt Hotel, which
is not exactly right next to all the action. Look for signs and
ask for directions if you need help.
In the place of computers you would find at your local Pearson
VUE test center, we are using pencil and paper (I wonder if paper
was ever marketed as Papyrus 2.0 or Cuneiform Tablets++). This is
one of the reasons the …
Si Chen just wrote about releasing opentaps
1.0.0, very timely just before the MySQL Conference although his
suite can work with other databases too. Si spoke about opentaps
at the MySQL Conference a few years ago, which is how I first met
him. And he's still at it, good for him - so it's an active and
progressing product/project. Excellent.
The opentaps project page is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opentaps/
Don't know if it does (for instance) any business foo relevant
for Australia yet, but asking won't hurt, and it's open source
anyway so adding it is possible also. The joys of Open Source!
CrunchyFrog is a database navigator and query tool
for
GNOME.
Currently PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite3 databases and LDAP servers are supported for browsing and querying.
I gave it quick try and it looks really promising. Gotta love a
Monty Python reference in any case.
*Sigh*, well I won't be making it out to the conference this year: My wife is due any day now with our third child. Scheduling to fly to California next week just doesn't seem like it falls under the category of "supporting my wife."
Top ten things I'll miss about the mysql conference 2008:
- How replication is dead
- Why 5.1 isn't stable yet
- How wonderful Sun/Maria/Falcon/Cluster/6.x/Proxy is
- Grilling Heikki about Innodb internals and bottlenecks
- Wringing more information about high performance MySQL from Paul Tuckfield
- The food!
- Vendor / O'Reilly Swag
- How great MySQL will run on Sun hardware
- Conference Day 3 daze -- that part of the conference where your eyes start to glaze over.
- Getting really, really sick of talking about MySQL
Have fun everyone, see you next year! …
[Read more]*Sigh*, well I won't be making it out to the conference this year: My wife is due any day now with our third child. Scheduling to fly to California next week just doesn't seem like it falls under the category of "supporting my wife."
Top ten things I'll miss about the mysql conference 2008:
- How replication is dead
- Why 5.1 isn't stable yet
- How wonderful Sun/Maria/Falcon/Cluster/6.x/Proxy is
- Grilling Heikki about Innodb internals and bottlenecks
- Wringing more information about high performance MySQL from Paul Tuckfield
- The food!
- Vendor / O'Reilly Swag
- How great MySQL will run on Sun hardware
- Conference Day 3 daze -- that part of the conference where your eyes start to glaze over.
- Getting really, really sick of talking about MySQL
Have fun everyone, see you next year! …
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I keep getting these notes, sometimes automated, and sometimes
not, from people asking me to blog about the Memcached Tutorial next week.
What is the problem?
It is sold out, and I have a good list of folks who want me to
sneak them in already. I'd say there was space under the podium,
but that gives me flashbacks to "Police Academy" films.
Maybe see if dormando wants to stand there while
giving his half of the presentation?
I'll stick t the wireless microphone.
Anyways, I keep smiling each time I see the requests, knowing
that few of them read the reports on how the conference is going
(and props to Jay Pipes who has to constantly deal with people …
After our late night April Fool's dolphin stunt last week, I got roped into doing an early morning video shoot to preview some of the upcoming items for next week's MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara. I did this on about 4 hours sleep and so I look a bit like Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica, but hopefully less conflicted and not as sleezy. Through the miracle of video editing they made me look semi-coherent, though some things about new storage engines and row-based replication ended up on the cutting room floor. There's a ton of new stuff coming... READ MORE
We will be having a Memcached Hackathon next tuesday the 15th,
starting at 8:30. We have commandeered a BOF at the MySQL User's Conference and will be running the
hackathon till late.
Current topics of interest:
Binary protocol for libmemcached
Storage Interface from Toru Maesaka
Discussions on #memcached on Freenode to set other agenda
items.
BTW You do not need to be registered at the conference to
come.
opentaps 1.0.0 Released
Last week, we officially released opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM version 1.0.0. This
version marks a significant step forward for opentaps. Since the
release of 0.9 nearly two years ago, opentaps has matured into a
full-featured ERP and CRM suite with role-based applications
designed for the sales force, customer service, warehouse,
purchasing, and finance and accounting departments. We have
greatly improved the usability of opentaps since the
earlier versions, created a free online
documentation site for it, and built a more solid foundation
of automated tests that would allow us to deliver a higher
quality product going forward.
A Unique Platform
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So, as I said before, I will be at the MySQL Conference next week. I am renting a car this year so I don’t have to wait on cabs or deal with them at all. So, I am mobile and being from a modern Southern US city, used to driving 30 minutes just to go to dinner. So, where should we go? Anything good in San Jose? Should I go all the way to San Francisco? I am willing to go where ever. Help me locals, you are my only hope!
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