Later today around 5PM EST both me and my wife will be flying to
San Jose to
attend MySQL Conference happening next week. We will be
staying the first two nights in Burlingame to
meet family and friends.
Then on Friday evening we will be going to visit more family in
Monterey.
We will arrive at Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, on Sunday
afternoon.
Once at Hyatt, I will be happy to give a ride to anyone going to
the Pre-Conference dinner.
After the conference, my plan is to spend time with a few …
More birds-of-a-feather evening sessions... this time a meeting
about meetings: local MySQL user groups around the world. Please
add yourself to http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Conference_and_Expo_2008#Local_MySQL_Groups
if you run, want to start, or otherwise participate in a MySQL
group where you live, and intend to attend this BoF session. We
can exchange experiences and ideas, and I wrangled some books out
of Apress which I'm happy to hand out for some of you to take
back to your local groups!
(meanwhile, the Sunday community dinner event is coming along
nicely with already nearly 30 people saying they'll come,
including many community developers and MySQL alumni - looks like
that's going to be a great gathering!)
I have a story for you. Don't fall asleep now - can't promise a
happy ending though. There is no ending yet.
Once upon a time... there was OpenOffice.org. Version 2 of this
product has a Base product, and the other components (Calc, etc)
can also interface with databases through JDBC/ODBC, but the
native db interface is something called SDBC which is kinda like
a C++ version of JDBC.
A few years back, Georg Richter spent hundreds of hours of his
spare time writing a native SDBC driver to connect OpenOffice.org
to MySQL, so that it can interface without going through JDBC or
ODBC layers. Cool, huh?
Now, what needs to happen is that this code goes into the main
OpenOffice.org codebase. That in itself is not a problem, but
there's a catch: OpenOffice.org is LGPL licensed. The licensing
of the SDBC driver is not an issue, rights can or already have
been signed through the Sun contributor license thing. But …
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 …