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And the winner is….MySQL.

As much as I tried to get the video of the May Boston MySQL meetup captured, edited, and exported the night of the meetup it just didn't happen. I got close, had it captured and edited but exporting from DV to a compressed Quicktime takes many hours. Even on the Intel dual core it took almost 12 hours of both CPUs going full speed (hey, that's slower than my old PowerBook G4).

I started using audio from the lapel mic but unplugged it when the Q/A started (early in the presentation). The sound is much better from the lapel mic but if there is back and forth with the audience the video misses half the conversation. In my experience asking the presenter to repeat the question doesn't work, even if they remember to repeat (which they usually don't) you miss any back and forth and have gaps of silence.

Anyhow, the video is up on Google ( …

 On June 24th/25th, the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) will be held in Sankt Augustin, Germany. I have submitted two talks (in english), which both got accepted: "MySQL Administration: Backup and Security Strategies on Linux" and "The MySQL Business Model: Where and how we thrive". The sessions will take place on Saturday, but I will be around on Sunday, too. In addition to my sessions, there will be two more MySQL-related talks: "MySQL Cluster: an Introduction - A journey into High Availability" by Geert Vanderkelen (one of our MySQL Cluster Support experts) and "Pivot …

i finally saw someone make mention of the plugin that adds the load of awful crap to the end of some people?s blog entries which clutters things up on sites like planet mysql. it?s called ?better feed.?

clearly, ?better? is in the eye of the beholder. i find it to be an eyesore.

If you missed LinuxWorld Boston in early April, and more specifically the Golden Penguin Bowl where MySQL Nerds faced off against Oracle Geeks, you can now see it on Google video. Most of the video is spent showing the slides so don't expect to see a lot of the MySQL Nerds or Oracle Geeks in action.

Since Planet MySQL has become a discussion board about how to write for a planet I'll throw out the suggestion that having cake and eating it is possible with syndication. I agree with Stewart that if you're using an RSS aggregator that you do want the full feed, otherwise you're left clicking somewhere which is really annoying when you're trying to get through any significant number of feeds.

Right now I'm feeding Planet MySQL RSS 2.0, which contains just the entry description. In Moveable Type that corresponds to the entry body. Anything that goes into the …

How to blog for a planet - MySQL-dump

I have to say I disagree with the whole teaser/article body thing. I really don’t like having RSS feeds that don’t contain the full article. It means I can’t read them offline. I often like to catch up on RSS while offline. I also don’t particularly feel the need to have to make yet another click to view the content of an article.

Yes, it’s a little more bandwidth. But really, it’s cheap. Especially with mod_gzip and whatever else optimised foo we can do.

Maybe planet aggregators could get more clever in summarising entries? Or not. How many people actually read a planet from the web site anyway?

BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacey has a good article on two significant trends in the industry: On Demand systems and Open Source software.  Whether it's Salesforce.com, RightNow or new stealth mode companies like Dave Duffield's WorkdDay, there's an argument that says that the old model of selling expensive Enterprise software for on-site installation is going the way of the dodo.  Why pay millions and spend two years to implement a complex beast of a system when you can get results in weeks with the On Demand subscription models? 

Having been through several failed on-site CRM implementations over the last ten years before …

I spent Monday writing a document to summarize the current MySQL system architecture and lay out the plan for where we're going with scaling our MySQL architecture at OpenAir. Yesterday I met with the CTO and the Director of Engineering (my manager) to go through the plan, which has evolved considerably since I started working on it. The three of us have been meeting somewhat regularly since I took the helm of all things MySQL.

This is not the document, it is a summary of what's in the document. For our environment there are three major things to think about when it comes to scaling up MySQL; performance, redundancy, and monitoring.

Performance

A key component of scaling MySQL is taking steps to make sure we're getting the most from your existing systems. For us this has primarily been performance tuning to process queries faster. The more we can get out of existing …

MySQL on Mac OS X: An Ideal Development Combination

They got one bit a bit unclear. They say “In fact, the development team at MySQL AB uses the Mac platform for developing the MySQL server software itself.” Which is misleading at best if not downright wrong.

Yes, some people do use MacOS X. But some also use Microsoft Windows, some FreeBSD and a lot use Linux (various flavours - mine’s Ubuntu). The way their sentence reads is that we only use the Mac platform. This, is wrong. They even quote Brian later on as saying that “A significant number of the developers inside MySQl …