In reading Richard MacManus' Why Google is extending RSS, I couldn't help feeling that he was missing the point a bit. It's as if he was focusing on the small things ("Why RSS?") rather than looking at the bigger picture of where all this is going.

It's not about building an easier onramp to Google Base.

Well, it is. But, again, that's the small stuff.

GData is the realization of the future that Adam Bosworth spoke about at the 2005 MySQL Users Conference.

It just so happened that I re-listened to his talk a several weeks ago during a walk to the bank. Hearing it for the second time, I was much more receptive to his ideas about creating a simple and open replacement for all the …

All I had to do was fill in a speaker evaluation form from yesterday, and now I've won a radio shark and headphones. Nice.

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All I had to do was fill in a speaker evaluation form from yesterday, and now I've won a radio shark and headphones. Nice.

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I know how much I hate data entry. So do the MySQL folks a favor — if you’re at the Users conference, fill out an evaluation form for the conference at:

http://www.oreilly.com/go/confeval

and a speaker evaluation for each session at:

http://www.oreilly.com/go/spkreval

It took me a while to find the links, so I’m posting them here. I find myself writing down comments during the talk anyway, so having the browser open and writing comments directly into the eval form is useful for me.

And you have your laptop with you anyway (you’re reading this, aren’t you?). So pop open a browser and spend 2 minutes after each presentation giving feedback. Who knows, you might win something too!

Mike writes a good summary of the MySQL Conference opening keynote State of the Dolphin: Interview with Kaj, Monty and David of MySQL.

I’d like to add just two comments.

Firstly, it was great to see community awards to Giuseppe, Roland, Marcus and Rasmus. Well done!

Second, it was a great thing to see on the slides a reference to Paul’s PBXT Transactional Storage Engine. A MySQL storage engine from the community. I’ve had a chance to meet Paul and have a number of great discussions with him. I wish him all the best, and I’m happy to contribute what I can to see his engine make it into the MySQL product in the future.

Tuesday’s Keynote speaking from the MySQL Users Conference including a presentation from Greg Gianforte of RightNow Technologies on “Bootstrapping: Starting an Open Source Business With Almost No Money!” Read More.

Taking directly from Greg’s presentation, here are some key points for bootstraping that meant something to me.

• Sales is Job #1
• Don’t spend Beyond Your Means
• There Is Always Another Way
• What is Your Noble Purpose?

Some great points. In summary, not having funds should not be an excuse, find another way . You just need to think creatively. I agree completely, thinking creatively is something I do well. Immerse yourself - talk to lots of people, …

Was just introduced in the keynote and looks kinda cool. It isn't packaged in Ubuntu yet, which is a shame...

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So, I’m at the MySQL Users Conference. I ran into Jay Pipes and Mike Kruckenberg yesterday. That was not surprising. Surprising was the fact that Mike Hillyer (of sakila sample db fame, which I am very interested in) found me and said “Hi”. I can’t wait for his talk on the sample database; I want to run out and rewrite all the documentation using the sample db. I was introduced to Colin Charles as well, who congratulated me on the success of the Boston MySQL Users conference.

This morning I sat down for the keynotes and Roland Bouman said, “Sheeri!” He was followed by Markus Popp, …

Tuesday morning's keynote at MySQL UC 2006 is a conversation with Kaj Arno (VP community relations), Monty Widenius (founder) and David Axmark (founder). The conversation is somewhat informal, Kaj asking questions from a card and being spontaneous with responses.

The storage engine architecture started with Money being lazy becase he had some data in one format but was having to move to another data format and didn't want to migrate the data.

What is Falcon? It's Swedish beer. It's also a new storage engine from MySQL that uses memory in a new, and significantly improved way. Monty is working on Falcon in a more development role than he's done for awhile. He's also working on a new version of MyISAM that will be ACID, have much faster indexes, and include data warehousing features. There are a bunch of other new storage engine ideas. Monty's favorite new storage engine idea is …

Last night, I attended Mike Zinner’s presentation of MySQL GUI’s, most specifically MySQL Workbench. In summary I was very impressed with the current work, and the future potential. I’ve been waiting for now about a year to get access to full strength MySQL Workbench (it has been available for some time, but still in early development), having previously used DB Designer for MySQL Data Modelling. One of the limitations is finding a quality tool that runs under Linux. Well MySQL workbench will satisfy this and far more in the future.

A quick summary of some of the glossy features.

• Reverse Engineering of schemas from multiple input sources including MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server.
• Synchronisation with a MySQL Database.
• Quick Re-Synchronisation.
• Full GUI tools and features for creating and maintaining database …