While I'm being insane...

CREATE TABLE housing ...
 ENGINE=FEED
 CONNECTION="http://seattle.craigslist.org/hhh/index.rss";

SELECT title FROM housing WHERE ...;


I think I can get it working with a week or less work.

I thought of doing this at the Yahoo Pipes talk at the Vancouver PHP conference a few months ago, but dimissed it as a joke. I thought of it again at Pasha Sadri of Yahoo's final keynote yesterday. This time, I know that I can do it, but I don't know if I can dismiss it as a joke.

Is this a great idea, or a sick one?

LinuxWorld has a good (and flattering :-) post on Alfresco and the rise of open source Enterprise Content Management that is faster, more usable, and a heck of a lot cheaper than traditional proprietary ECM.

But ease of use should not be underestimated as a key driver in Alfresco's, and other open source applications', growth. Who cares about technology that no one knows how to use?

Terry Barbounis, CTO at the Christian Science Monitor, answers:

Content management technology, in general, has been something to be desired for sometime now, Barbounis says. “Systems are just not easy enough to use and as a consequence customers either don't use them or get little value from what they do,” he says. “ECM when properly leveraged can stretch …

I'm probably insane.

Writing MySQL Plugins
by Mark Atwood, et al

I predict a number of co-authors.

Thanks to everyone who attended the talk in person.

The slides used in the talk is available at ZRM for MySQL wiki

If you have questions or comments, please send them to me.

Looks like our blog has turned into a MySQL blog over this week, so I have to do something about it. Luckily, I have zillions of pending posts, so I’ll start with posting my presentations materials from this conference with my remarks on how it went in general. On Monday, I was presenting about Oracle 10g [...]

The MySQL 2007 Conference is over for another year. I must say that this year was very different for me, for both planned reasons, and unexpected as well. The first point is that there are always plenty of sessions and talks, BOF's etc to learn information from some of the most experienced and talented people in the world, not just with MySQL, but databases in general. Secondly, as always, there are so many sessions that are excellent content that you have to choose between sessions and miss out sometimes.

Well, of all the sessions I had planned to see being 11 in total, I ended up seeing 3 of them! This is not because I chose different sessions, but because I chose to do 3 certification exams over 3 of the days. I planned this and had hopefully worked it out that I could do them with minimal loss of sessions. It turns out, that being MySQL partners, I had to attend some other meetings as …

The MySQL 2007 Conference is over for another year. I must say that this year was very different for me, for both planned reasons, and unexpected as well. The first point is that there are always plenty of sessions and talks, BOF's etc to learn information from some of the most experienced and talented people in the world, not just with MySQL, but databases in general. Secondly, as always, there are so many sessions that are excellent content that you have to choose between sessions and miss out sometimes.

Well, of all the sessions I had planned to see being 11 in total, I ended up seeing 3 of them! This is not because I chose different sessions, but because I chose to do 3 certification exams over 3 of the days. I planned this and had hopefully worked it out that I could do them with minimal loss of sessions. It turns out, that being MySQL partners, I had to attend some other meetings as …

I'm sitting here at the "MySQL Storage Engine Summit".

I predict in five years it's going be turning into a regular tech conference / trade show, with tracks, sessions, keynotes, managers, marketing, salesmen, tech press, and a tradeshow floor.

But right now, it's a room stuffed full of engineers from a dozen companies.

And no NDAs. If you don't want to have something talked about, don't talk about it. — Brian Aker

Information about Online Backup can be found on the Online Backup homepage:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/OnlineBackup

We are very interested in feedback!

Well, it seems according to the MySQL Certification team, that after completing the new MySQL Cluster certification exam on the first day of the conference, I am the third person in the world to passed this certification. The position is only based on the time I got to see the results as I had Kim from Singapore do the exam as well, which I am sure he would have had no problem passing either.

So what does this mean? Well, apart from being the first in Australia (seeing Stuart is too busy building the software to do the exams :) to receive the certification, it means that I will have a certificate to show clients that I know what I am doing in MySQL Cluster.

All up there were 7 people who did the MySQL Cluster examination and out of those I understand that only 3 passed. Does this mean it was a difficult exam? Due to an NDA I have to sign before doing the exam, I can't divulge any details of the exam itself.