So, the camp schedule is coming together nicely. I went ahead and revamped the style and content of the MySQL Camp website entirely, adding a navigation sidebar, a page on the camp T-Shirt Design Contest (sponsored by Baron Schwartz' employer, the Rimm Kaufman Group), the new MySQL Community Server Logo Voting, and a page for a session I am really keen on getting a great discussion going in: A MySQL Core Kernel.

Feel free to vote for your choice of logos; I'm interested to see what the front runners will be (though I have my suspicions...). Tell everyone you know about MySQL Camp. The more folks we get to the …

Vote for your favorite MySQL Community(TM) logo! Add comments on existing logos! Even mock up

http://mysqlcamp.pbwiki.com/LogoVoting

Seriously, though — think of how a new logo will reflect the Community, and how we all want to be perceived. Also consider what makes a nice favicon.ico …..

So vote on something that really matters to you, and make your voice heard. It does not cost anything and takes just a few seconds.

I would have liked to have done this on MySQLForge but, as you know, this is not yet possible. However, if MySQL were to provide even part of their, obviously, excellent development management system for external projects I would be one of the first on board.

In the meantime, PrimeBase XT source code and development will be managed on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pbxt.

For new projects it really makes sense to use Subversion instead of CVS, so to get the latest version of the source code you enter the following:

svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pbxt/trunk/pbxt pbxt

If you are a Mac OS X user, or your UNIX distribution does not include the Subversion client, you can download it from …

$ svn ci
Connection closed by $MAGIC_IP_ADDR
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Connection closed unexpectedly
svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
svn:    '/full/path/to/parent/directory/where/no/changed/files/svn-commit.tmp'
$ svn ci
Log message unchanged or not specified
a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit
a

could have at least saved the commit message somewhere useful. like, say, somewhere so when i type “svn ci” again it reads the commit message.

grrr

During my recent vacation I worked on this blog entry which talks about connection pooling in PHP and some of the recent interesting results IBM published in a recent Zend Developer Zone article. I just saw Christopher Jones? blog entry on a new feature coming in Oracle 11g so I?ve slightly adjusted it to include the news.

As is apparent from the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook and other large Web 2.0 companies who have billions of page views per month, PHP can indeed be deployed in a way which scales extremely well. Naturally with any technology that has to scale to huge volumes of traffic using large clusters of servers, there are always scalability issues that need resolving. Common issues that IT personnel deal with are monitoring and management of their clusters, application deployment, …

You know ThinkGeek. Cool (geeky) stuff, and I know they're very nice people too.
Right now they're also in need of a senior programmer... strong Linux, SQL, Perl and web skills. You have to be willing to move to Fairfax, Virginia. For more details, see http://www.thinkgeek.com/jobs

The above URL also has a link for applying - if I know you and you would like a personal intro to the folks at ThinkGeek, toss me an email!

Expect the unexpected! There is a hilarious video on YouTube, called

Do babies dream of being database engineers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvamAW_nSE

Back in the day, we worked on developing a specialty application that was basically a lead generation system with a database that stored over 200,000 records, with a potential for a lot more. The web application displayed numerous reports that calculated totals from disparate sources. We discovered that once our client began adding all their data that those reports were running slower and slower and slower. The problem was that we had one primary query to pull the records out, then, as the code looped through each record, several other queries were needed to calculate the disparate totals. That resulted in numerous database calls that slowed the entire web application. That's when Mike discovered MySQL Wizardry, that used the SUM(IF()) and the GROUP BY clause, problem solved. ...

It was my pleasure to work with Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL for about a year during 2005 and 2006. I was astounded by how involved he is with the employees and how well he keeps abreast of the goings-on in the company. He seems to be of the rare set who are not only strong supporters and evangelizers of the company and software, but are also technically familiar with it. With great folks like Mårten, Brian, Arjen, Zack and Ulf, MySQL AB has been and continues to be one of the most important Open Source companies that exists.

Go read the slashdot article here:
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Not sure how many CEOs get coverage on Slashdot, but a few days ago, Marten Mickos did an online interview there.  Sometimes online discussions degenerate into a technological pissing match (such as the venerable "vi vs. emacs" arguments) and I'm glad this one didn't.  Marten talks about issues around software quality, building a business, walking the line between enterprise and community needs and other interesting topics.

• Slashdot: MySQL CEO Marten Mickos Answers Your Questions