When I posted a few weeks ago about the end of
MySQLDevelopment.com it seems the timing was a little off. I was
planning to close things down on 30th April simply as it was the
end of a month, what I hadn't taken into account was that this
would coincide with the MySQL user conference. I won't say too
much at the moment but there are plans to use the content on
another site which will have some involvment with MySQL
themselves, however because of the user conference the people
involved won't be able to transfer the content until after the
30th.
Our visitor numbers are still growing the figures for March were
twice those of January so to avoid any distruption of service I
won't be pulling the plug until I can make a seemless switch.
I've been following the plethora of "MySQL User Conference":http://mysqluc.com/ postings over at "Planet MySQL":http://www.planetmysql.org/. Woah, it looks like fun!
Sadly I am missing most of it this year. I don't have time to go the whole week, so I am only making it on Wednesday to give my talk "Web Performance and Scalability with MySQL":http://mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8294.
Usually I'd worry tons about my talk, but I think it'll be lots of fun. I've been tuning and fixing up my slides and I really like how it's turning out[1]. Hopefully the people coming to the talk will like it too! :-)
The talk description says "fast paced", and it's not kidding. I have enough content for three talks - but then people would just have too much time to read their email and that's not what they come to the conference for, right? Right?? :-)
Anyway, I'm looking forward to it a lot, except for the part about …
[Read more]I've been following the plethora of "MySQL User Conference":http://mysqluc.com/ postings over at "Planet MySQL":http://www.planetmysql.org/. Woah, it looks like fun!
Sadly I am missing most of it this year. I don't have time to go the whole week, so I am only making it on Wednesday to give my talk "Web Performance and Scalability with MySQL":http://mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8294.
Usually I'd worry tons about my talk, but I think it'll be lots of fun. I've been tuning and fixing up my slides and I really like how it's turning out[1]. Hopefully the people coming to the talk will like it too! :-)
The talk description says "fast paced", and it's not kidding. I have enough content for three talks - but then people would just have too much time to read their email and that's not what they come to the conference for, right? Right?? :-)
Anyway, I'm looking forward to it a lot, except for the part about …
[Read more]From the highly unorthodox department, a speech about stored routines that create other routines in MySQL.
Higher Order MySQL at the MySQL Users Conference, 17:20, Ballroom C.
Get the source code and examples.
Looking at my weblog traffic summary tonight and was startled by this statistic. In recent months folks have grabbed around 1.2 terrabytes of data off of this site. I guess that should be expected when posting monthly MySQL meetup videos that are anywhere from 100-300 MB. Doesn't take many of those to make bandwidth an issue.
The video hosting at Google is obviously the better choice from a data-transfer perspective. However, I've heard numerous people complain that the sound isn't right or the video freezes up on Google so I think it's nice to provide a Quicktime version that's downloadable to play it off a local machine. I had also been thinking it would be nice to provide a video in iPod format for folks on the run (and while I'm at it maybe an mp3 too for audio-only).
Is 1.2 TB a big deal? I'm not sure for everyone, but since the bandwidth is donated I like to think I'm being careful with it. Looking around it seems that there …
[Read more]By tim
As part of the prep for my keynote on Wednesday at the MySQL User Conference, I decided to ask some of my Web 2.0 friends just how they were using databases in their applications. Over the next couple of days, I'm going to post what I heard back. I'm not going to draw any conclusions till the end of the series, but just let people speak for themselves.
In this first installment, a few thoughts from Cory Ondrejka and Ian Wilkes of Linden Labs, creators of Second Life. Cory wrote:
Your timing is, of course, perfect because we're a) in the midst of converting much of our backend architecture away from custom C++/messaging and into web services and b) we spent yesterday afternoon fighting some database cliff that we just hit. Since I'm about to get on a redeye, let me introduce you to Ian Wilkes, our Director …
[Read more]Argh! MySQL cluster currently stores in RAM only. That means if I have 100 machines each with 4 gigabytes of RAM, then I can store 200 gigabytes of data! Hurrah! That's at least what I learnt in the tutorial, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
So, there are two access points with the ESSID "MySQL-Hyatt" that I can see from my coffee drinking spot here in the foyer. iwlist tells me that they have encryption off, which matches what the conference handbook says should be the case. No DHCP leases are being offered though. I guess that means that the conference network hasn't been commissioned yet. Oh well.
Update: Oh, it works in the conference rooms, which have a different ESSID.
So, there are two access points with the ESSID "MySQL-Hyatt" that I can see from my coffee drinking spot here in the foyer. iwlist tells me that they have encryption off, which matches what the conference handbook says should be the case. No DHCP leases are being offered though. I guess that means that the conference network hasn't been commissioned yet. Oh well.
Update: Oh, it works in the conference rooms, which have a different ESSID.