Giuseppe had a great idea this morning on a conference call: why not let campers reduce their lodging costs by doing an all-night hackathon on the Thursday evening? And thus, after a brief check with Polytechnic, was borne the first MySQL Camp Burn-the-Midnight-Oil-Hackathon!

There is a limit of 50 people that can stay on site at Polytechnic University overnight (otherwise they need to open up that main buildings and provide security detail, which would be expensive). So, a maximum of 50 folks can bring sleeping bags for Thursday night and hack on their projects. I'm thinking that it would pretty cool to find a sponsor willing to pay for T-Shirts for these All-Night Hackers... If you work for a company interested in sponsoring this type of thing, do let me know.

The …

The T1000 is the first Sun I have spent a lot of energy on for a while.

From the hardware side I am both impressed, and is the norm annoyed
with Sun. The T1000 ALOM, aka "Advanced Lights Out Manager", is
sharp. A Solaris sysadmin friend had told me about the feature a
while ago and had explained that its why he had been seeing Linux
shops by Sun hardware.

And why annoyed? Well lets say a single USB port to boot the machine
off of a DVD drive would have been nice when I had to reload the OS.

So what is ALOM? Its a embedded boot console with its own serial
interface and ethernet port. ssh into it, and you can directly
connect to the console of the computer. You can power it up, shut it
down... everything built into one box.

That is sharp.

I've seen a lot of remote console systems, but I've never been that
…

I am happy to announce that my MySQL Dev Zone interview with David Axmark just went live - if you are curious to hear a few stories about how David and Monty started this whole thing more than 10 years ago, make sure to spend a few minutes and read it here!

I gave a tutorial at OSCON last week on tuning MySQL queries, the EXPLAIN statement, the optimizer, and benchmarking. I've gone ahead and put the tutorial materials online now:

• The workbook (PDF)
• Slide Deck (OpenOffice Impress)
• Slide Deck (PDF)

Note that the zip and tarballs noted in the tutorial workbook will be up once thewench is cleaned up and packaged in with the rest of the materials.

Some say Sun is as cool as OSCon (if not cooler) because, among most companies that support OSCon, only Sun can produce truly underground notes on OSCon.

David Van Couvering reviews Mike Olson's comments about his keynote at OSCon and pontificates about whether the value of Open Source could be limited to the collaboration it fosters. David aptly notes that

Open source and an open community gives you the assurance that the technology you are depending on is not going to be discontinued or put into "maintenance mode," it won't be acquired by someone who you would rather not do business with, and it won't be used as leverage against you to extract money or modify your behavior.

By way of further review, David contrasts MySQL as an Open Source project to …

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In this less technical episode we interview Paul Vallee, where he explains in depth about the Pythian Group.

Special thanks to folks who have linked to the podcast:
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Episode 34, July 9th, in which Michael mentions OurSQL and hopes I haven’t “gone dark”. Nope! http://www.webdevradio.com/index.php?id=50

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Using MySQL As Active DBMS for Monitoring Applications ? Jacob Nikom.

Jacob presented this as a special preview at the April 2007 Boston MySQL User Group, and then presented it at the 2007 MySQL Users Conference and Expo.
The last in the ?better late than never? series?.

Using MySQL As Active DBMS for Monitoring Applications — Jacob Nikom.

Jacob presented this as a special preview at the April 2007 Boston MySQL User Group, and then presented it at the 2007 MySQL Users Conference and Expo.

The last in the “better late than never” series….

Download from http://www.technocation.org/videos/2007_04BostonUserGroup.wmv
or view right here:

I finally found a time to publish Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines slides on MySQL Presentations page , this is the talk which we gave on OSCON 2007 and which talks about current state behavior and performance properties of Innodb, Falcon, PBXT and SolidDB Storage Engines.