I’m reviewing proposals, that have come in when we made the CfP for the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, and I’ve noticed some bugs in the CfP process. So let me take a break, gripe, and go back to the grindstone. I wish more people read the instructions for CfP submission (I’m even referring to you experienced presenters, might I add).

Via the CfP page, it says be creative, descriptive, and specific. I delve into this a little more, and add some of my thoughts.

1. Be creative - sure, a catchy title helps, but I personally review everything, even if you have the world’s most boring title
2. Be descriptive - please, heed to this. Don’t tell me that you’re going to expand on the abstract if its accepted, and don’t tell …

At first sight it seems MySQL AB has learned the lesson from its 5.0 release and is not rushing as much anymore with their releases as much. It seems that the 5.1 GA release was pushed back from this fall to Q1 2008. MySQL 6.0 will feature the new Falcon storage engine, but without foreign key and full text indexing. That will have to wait for MySQL 6.1. Now 6.1 is supposed to go into beta 2008/2009 which means a GA release is expected in 2009. So when exactly is MySQL 6.0 supposed to be done then? Last I heard was fall 2008, which would mean GA release for 6.0 and the beta release for 6.1 to be pretty close.

I hope this is not overly ambitious. MySQL 5.0 was to a large extend a feature checklist release. As such it took MySQL AB quite a lot …

Some of the bloggers on Planet MySQL are sharing their proposals for the upcoming 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo. Hereby, I follow their example and give you mine.

The first proposal I submitted is on PHPUnit and will showcase Michael Lively Jr.'s port of DbUnit:

Testing PHP/MySQL Applications with PHPUnit/DbUnit

In the last decade, PHP has developed from a niche language for adding dynamic functionality to small websites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into large-scale Web systems. Critical …

Misys to open source healthcare software. SiteScape releases open source collaboration suite. Novell appoints president for North America. (and more)

Misys Leads Industry with Bold Open Source Move, Misys (Press Release)

SiteScape Announces Availability of Its ICEcore Integrated Collaboration Environment as an Open Source Project and an Enterprise Software Suite, SiteScape (Press Release)

Novell Appoints Tim Wolfe as President, Novell Americas, Novell (Press Release)

KnowledgeTree Document Management Software …

MySQL AB today announced that ScienceLogic, one of the fastest-growing network management companies, relies on the MySQL Embedded Database Server for the demanding data processing and storage needs of its EM7 Meta-Appliances.

In addition to ScienceLogic, customers who have embedded or bundled the MySQL Embedded Database Server include Adobe, Composite Software, Electric Cloud, Nuance Communications, Inc., Openwave Systems, Synopsys, Inc., Tumbleweed Communications Corp., Voltage Security, Inc., Zimbra, Inc. -- and hundreds more.

Obsidian has been appointed the official training partner for the MySQL database product in South Africa.

Well, we did it. In between his SCRUM meeting and my compiling MySQL on Windows, Eric and I bashed out a proposal for the MySQL Users Conference 2008 and have submitted it. The content of the talk, well... It is entitled "Tour of External language stored procedures for MySQL" and we're going to talk about our little project. On Kaj's blog, he suggests that submissions should be creative,

The kind folks at the PHP Usergroup Frankfurt invited me to talk about CouchDB. We meet on November 8th between 19:30 and 20:00 at the Brotfabrik in Frankfurt. If you are in the area and like to hear about CouchDB, feel free to join us.

I will be presenting CouchDB’s core concepts, its recent improvements and the programming interface to give you an overview. Building on that, I will explain how to architect CouchDB applications and show best practices for writing them not forgetting how to do all that from PHP.

In case you forgot:

CouchDB is designed for highly concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant systems. The core principles for scaling database applications are the foundation of CouchDB’s feature set. It supports on- and offline replication, data …

Google sometimes wears its source code on its sleeve (Summer of Code), and sometimes it doesn't, as when it was reported today that Google will be contributing significant source code to MySQL. Given how innovative and engineering-oriented Google is, it's hard to imagine a better vote of confidence in MySQL and a better code partner for MySQL.

Or a bigger reason for Oracle to worry about MySQL.

Earlier this year Google signed a Contributor License Agreement, which provides the legal framework under which MySQL can include code from another company in its database, MySQL co-founder and Vice President David Axmark said on Tuesday....

The search company has done a lot of work customizing MySQL to meet its special needs, which include better database replication, and tools to monitor a high volume of database instances, Axmark …