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Sometimes, you forget simple concepts when your head is deep into the waters of solving other problems.

I dealt with a problem this weekend that was the result of code I wrote that we use for regression testing. The code is designed with a fairly simple concept: run all of our feeds and take the output of how Grazr Feed Server code parses (that the website/widget sees), store into MySQL the md5_hex of the OPML and JSON in a table for a known good version. Then, you update the code to the new test version, create a table with the same schema as the results for the known good version, run the regression again with the new code. When the regression for the new code is completed, then you compare the two tables.

The problem that I encountered was that I was performing a join against records that only existed for both data sets. Say for instance, I run regression for the known good version and produce 30,000 records. Then I …

Actually let me address the items in the topic in reverse order. I have added support for recaptcha. I actually never got spam on this wiki, but I got plenty of it on my wiki (the observant of you will note that my wiki has also changed url as of today, but the old address will just redirect). So I decided to give this a try. I also finished the last round of he Swiss Coed Championships in Ultimate Frisbee this weekend. Unfortunately we did not manage to upset the favorites in the final, so we placed 2nd. I wasn't really happy with my throwing. I do know why this happend, so I will have to mark it as lesson learned. But I made a few nice dives which were caught on video, which I will hope will make it into the web soon.

Finally I made a few notes while attending the MySQL …

Actually let me address the items in the topic in reverse order. I have added support for recaptcha. I actually never got spam on this wiki, but I got plenty of it on my wiki (the observant of you will note that my wiki has also changed url as of today, but the old address will just redirect). So I decided to give this a try. I also finished the last round of he Swiss Coed Championships in Ultimate Frisbee this weekend. Unfortunately we did not manage to upset the favorites in the final, so we placed 2nd. I wasn't really happy with my throwing. I do know why this happend, so I will have to mark it as lesson learned. But I made a few nice dives which were caught on video, which I will hope will make it into the web soon.

Finally I made a few notes while attending the MySQL …

It makes me sad that not more was done to promote this, and I sure didn't do enough either. Well, I did email the Belgian user group members.

http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/events/emea-conference-2007/

* London, Tuesday, October 16th 2007
* Munich, Thursday, October 18th 2007
* Paris, Tuesday, October 23rd 2007

I can't attend all of them, but I'll try to go to Paris.

Tell your friends! Let us show there are people in Europe interested in these!

Some time ago, I announced the MySQL UDF Repository. In short, the MySQL UDF Repository tries to be a one stop place to obtain high quality LGPL licensed libraries containing MySQL UDFs, including documentation and binaries. Since the announcement, our Google Group has grown to a 22 members (including a number of MySQL employees and prominent community members), and we've gained a few interesting new UDF libraries:

lib_mysqludf_preg

A library authored by …

It makes me sad that not more was done to promote this, and I sure didn't do enough either. Well, I did email the Belgian user group members.

http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/events/emea-conference-2007/

* London, Tuesday, October 16th 2007
* Munich, Thursday, October 18th 2007
* Paris, Tuesday, October 23rd 2007

I can't attend all of them, but I'll try to go to Paris.

Tell your friends! Let us show there are people in Europe interested in these!

So this is a real story about my best bud airline (large one, you guess who). We have been together since the 80's when I picked an airline that partnered with SAS to make sure we had links back to the mother ship Sweden. It's been a ton of miles and I still have that proud email they sent when I reach my 1,000,000 mile bar (note to self, push the MySQL fulfillment project forward quickly).

Well, time has passed on and my friend is showing a lot of aging, and much is not pretty...

Today, in fact right now, Im onboard a flight from Washington DC to Germany for our developer conference.

It all starts with a great idea. They have added a 'red carpet' boarding lane for frequent fliers like me. So, if you're a 1k or Global services or ponied up Euros or upgrades for Bus or First class, you can stroll into the separate boarding lane at any time with a nice red carpet and get that envy look from fellow coach …

There is a lot of exciting stuff happening inside of MySQL AB. But due to the distributed nature of our company it's hardly possible to get a good overview about what the various teams of our development department are currently working on and what they have achieved since the last time we met.

So one cool new idea for our currently ongoing MySQL Developer Meeting in Heidelberg was to let developers show off their work to each other. They were encouraged to prepare demos, either in the form of slide shows or by running live demonstrations from their laptops. Last Thursday and Saturday we allocated time for these team exhibitions and the exhibitors set up tables in the meeting rooms for others to sit next to them, see the new and cool stuff and chat about it. The non-exhibiting attendees received a sheet of paper where they could collect signatures for each demo point they visited, the one that managed to see the most demos was eligible for …