The great thing about this unconference, is the lack of total formal structure. For now , our first session we are having an open introduction of people, there are at good 60+ people here already, and people rolling in, and it’s great to hear people’s background, and also to bag Jeremy Cole at every opportunity. We have a variety of people from various backgrounds, companies and experience levels.

We are in the Kiev room, with power build into the desks, lots of desk space and full 360% swivel chairs. This is just another example of the company’s clear thinking about it’s requirements.

There have already been some very funny stories, I should have made more earlier notes. Here are some.

Adam Ritter (Proven Scaling ride winner) was the first to bag Oracle, really bold move with Ken Jacobs from Oracle …

MySQL AB has licensed lbpool - a load balancing and fault tolerant JDBC driver written in Java that I developed six months ago for use within Tailrank.

The lbpool project provides a load balancing JDBC driver for use with DB connection pools. It wraps a normal JDBC driver providing reconnect semantics in the event of additional hardware availability, partial system failure, or uneven load distribution. It also evenly distributes all new connections among slave DB servers in a given pool. Each time connect() is called it will attempt to use the best server with the least system load.

I originally designed lbpool based on the difficulty I had at managing MySQL clusters in a former life. Basically, the more clients you have and the more slave servers you have the greater the chance that something will crash and end up ruining …

This are the steps to setup a brand new installation of OS X Server Tiger. This is for an "all in one" server typical for a small or startup WebObjects website or as a server used for testing. This setup is for MySQL 4.1, WebObjects 5.3, Apache webserver. The mechanics of WebObjects setup on a new installation of OS X Tiger is straight-forward and easier than with previous versions of OS X Server.

What if we made a storage engine that used MogileFS to store blobs/images?

I’m happy to release version 0.1 of the NDB/Python bindings. They are very young and not very well documented yet, but email me if you are interested in them and especially if you are interested in helping out. I’ll get a Trac system up and going (or something) or maybe sourceforge or savannah or google code or you know, whatever.

python-ndbapi-0.1.tar.bz2

Welcome to the 18th Log Buffer, the weekly human-edited review of news from database blogs. There’s no shortage of conferences and news about them, so let’s have a couple items on UK Oracle User Group Conference & Exhibition (UKOUG) to start. The titular Doug Burns of Doug’s Oracle Blog posts his personal agenda for the UKOUG. [...]

This are the steps to setup a brand new installation of OS X Server Tiger. This is for an "all in one" server typical for a small or startup WebObjects website or as a server used for testing. This setup is for MySQL 4.1, WebObjects 5.3, Apache webserver. The mechanics of WebObjects setup on a new installation of OS X Tiger is straight-forward and easier than with previous versions of OS X Server.

I’m outside enjoying a very lovely Danish and Orange juice with Jay and Leslie, and like 3 motorised scooters and a guy on a skateboard goes past. Did I mention how cool this place is!

Back in the foyer and Sheeri is sitting in the leather massage chair, as more people start streaming in. She has her laptop there and is IM’ing her boyfriend.

“So I’m in a massage chair at Google head quarters”. And his response is , “like right now”. Well here will be the photo and video when we find somebody with a card reader for my camera.

Jay’s looking a little worried, registrations are now over 200, 202, yesterday is was 150, and like 3 days ago, still in the 70s & 80s. People must have found out a free event at MySQL. We are going to kick people out that don’t contribute. It is a unconference.

So now that I write this, registrations are at 206.

So like two minutes later, some official looking Google people come over and saw “Come on over and get your Google Shirt”. So before the last past is even cold, we have our own Googlewear.

A minute later, Leslie is back again saying, guys and lady (Just for Sheeri), “Contintental breakfast is ready in the room”. Now to check out the Google Food!

Everybody here (that is not us visitors) are wearing Google shirts. It must be an official clothing label.

So Sheeri says “Actually they are just extras, they have been hired for the day.”

So the latest quote from Leslie is “Eat, joy and be merry, and stay inside the blue lines”. Of course I should also mention when we arrived the parking security guy said. “Follow the second yellow brick road”. This is going to be a weekend just of quotes!