The MySQL developers are meeting in Sorrento Italy this week to hammer out the final designs of what all will end up in MySQL-5.2 and beyond and trade best practices, and best of all take care of all that discussion and arguing that the high-bandwidth of being in close physical proximity gives you.

The weather‘s cool, but luckily the rain has held off. The scenery around here is just amazing, and getting in short walks each day into town (our hotel is up in foothills) has been pleasant exercise.

You can check out some of the photos of what‘s going on at Flickr (tagged "MySQL" and "Sorrento"), including my photo set.

Today, there seemed to be several interesting news items, so let me elaborate on a couple of them.

Besides the fact that the Mandrake founder Gael Duval isn’t part of Mandriva anymore, the part that interested me was the fact that he was running Mandriva’s Community Department. Their goal was “to improve Mandriva’s image in the open source arena.” Swap Mandriva, with MySQL, and thats me. From engineering grit right up to attending conferences, thats what Community does. Its funny thats what Mandriva chose to close first, seeing their dismal quarter results - basically without an OSS community, you’re nowhere in the OSS world.

I’m a regular lurker on #conary, and reading rPath Creates Malleable, Serviceable Linux Distribution made me …

I'm in a little debate with our sales people. We have one of the new MySQL 5.0 for Developers courses scheduled for June in Melbourne. Yes, the course is available in Europe and the US also!

It appears that in some areas there's more interest in DBA courses than in Developer courses. That's not new, as we used to have a week long Using (Dev) & Managing (DBA) course and people were allowed to sign up for just the DBA part.
Quite a few did, and interestingly enough most of those were completely out of their depth before coffee time on their first day. Of course, there's some stuff that are only relevant for either Developers or DBAs, but many things are important to both - and that's what I'm talking about.

So, based on this and similar experiences, I conclude that there's something wrong with the self-assessment. People reckon …

enough said.

Our community relations manager for the US region, Jay Pipes will be at EclipseCon 2006. See his blog for more information.

The java developers here at MySQL all use Eclipse on a daily basis (including myself), so I‘m excited to see us becoming more involved with the Eclipse community. (hint, watch for some news about MySQL and the Eclipse Foundation to be announced later this week at MySQL's Website.)

Our community relations manager for the US region, Jay Pipes will be at EclipseCon 2006. See his blog for more information.

The java developers here at MySQL all use Eclipse on a daily basis (including myself), so I'm excited to see us becoming more involved with the Eclipse community. (hint, watch for some news about MySQL and the Eclipse Foundation to be announced later this week at MySQL's Website.)

Our community relations manager for the US region, Jay Pipes will be at EclipseCon 2006. See his blog for more information.

The java developers here at MySQL all use Eclipse on a daily basis (including myself), so I‘m excited to see us becoming more involved with the Eclipse community. (hint, watch for some news about MySQL and the Eclipse Foundation to be announced later this week at MySQL's Website.)

MySQL is not only providing flickr with their database, we are contributing a number of images as well. :)

Here is my little list of MySQLers on flickr. If you have more, please leave the URL in the comments.

Brian Aker
Carl Collier (added)
Chad Miller
Colin Charles
Domas Mituzas
Elliot Murphy
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Less lemons! Right now all of your MySQL Developers are busy at MySQL Devcon 2006 in Sorrento. Each day is bracketed in the early morning and evening by the ritual of "Showstopper Bugs review", wherein the remaining showstopper, P1 and P2 bugs are reviewed, verified, assigned and the progress on their elimination is being tracked.

So far we are seeing a lot of progress - long standing and neglected bugs are suddenly going very easily, because people here can see each other and just talk about the problems they are seeing.

So more Sorrento means less lemons for all of you!

there?s a couple of more karaoke pictures in my photostream. sorry, no pictures of italian hookers.