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Continuing in the tradition, which I hope has been as helpful to you as it has been to me, I'm opening the floor for suggestions on chapter 9 of the upcoming High Performance MySQL, Second Edition. Unlike the other chapters for which I've listed outlines, this one isn't substantially written yet. It's in detailed outline form at this point (a tactic that has worked very well for us so far -- I'll write about that someday).

I'm trying to get feedback much earlier in this chapter's lifecycle, for several reasons. Two of the most important are that this is one of the first chapters I've had a chance to really take from scratch, and the chapters I haven't written from scratch have been harder to organize, as you've probably seen from the last few outlines I posted. There's a lot of value in working top-down on this deep encyclopedia-style material.

Read on for the outline and more thoughts I just can't keep to myself.

Note: This one comes in a bit late and it might not be as relevant as it could have been three weeks ago. But it also gives me the chance to take a more distanced look at the meeting. It might turn out that this post is more about working for MySQL than about the actual day.

It is about communication

I mentioned it a number of times, MySQL AB is a company with a very special structure. Its employees mostly work from home and home in this case is all over the world. By this time, most continents are covered as well as an impressive number of countries. It is obvious that solving communication issues is key to MySQL AB’s success. Different communication channels have all their merits and drawbacks and they are good at picking the right channel for the communication at hand.

MySQL is, of course, Open Source Software and MySQL AB has been an Open Company from the very beginning in terms of …

I see we‘ve put up a QuickPoll where you can vote on what language you use when implementing applications that use MySQL. I know there are a lot of you out there using Java with MySQL, so go ahead and vote at http://dev.mysql.com/

We’ve had the database appliance, the business intelligence appliance, the systems management appliance, and the CRM appliance, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before the arrival of the open source enterprise resource planning appliance.

Openbravo has announced that it is teaming up with rPath to build an ERP software appliance for small and medium businesses, with the aim of simplifying deployment and ongoing maintenance.

The product includes a …

The Pune Linux Users Group had organized a Mash (http://plug.org.in/mashup/) on October 13th and 14th ‘07.

Yet again, Zmanda asserted its support to the open source community by being an active participant at the Mash. Zmanda was conspicuous, by participating in all the events at the Mash

We had put forth two project ideas for the Mash. One was to find the most popular video/news viewed in India at any given time. And the other was to develop a Mobile-Mobile Chat Application.

The attendees were interested in both the project ideas.

Day 1 ? October 13th

At the Coding Session, Nikhil Bandiwadekar and Sachin Kale made significant progress in finding the most popular finance news viewed at any time. They used Yahoo Pipes for this purpose.

One of the attendees suggested the use of OpenMoko ( …

Tonight's reading material?

O'Reilly's "High Performance Web Sites Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers".

So what did I think?

I liked it.

First the background for the book. It is not yet another book on Apache, MySQL, or any particular scripting language. It is a front end designer's book.

A front end designer's book that does not explain HTML 101 (again). Instead the book went into how the delivery of content to a user's browser shapes the user's experience.

What I liked about the book was that the material was original. All of the information, except one bit about keeping JS scripts to …

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