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
…

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.

Another slightly disappointing article regarding MySQL, this one from a printed magazine. Below are my comments to the editor of Linux Format. The Dear Editor is an email link should others wish to make any comments. (Previous article comments What makes your blood boil?, Review of Database Magazine Article - ?The Usual Suspects?)

Dear Editor,

I’ve recently subscribed to LXF, and have generally been very happy with the content in past months. I’m disappointed in your recent LXF77 article “Harness a database” Pg 57. Being a strong MySQL supporter, your article includes a number of practices which are less then ideal, and especially for the newly initiated, overly complicated when simplier alternatives exist.

I am happy to see that you had the …

It's Wednesday at DevCon 2006 and the dinner activity tonight was pizza and karaoke.  The pizza was pretty good but the entertainment was even better.  Sans alcohol I'm not much of a singer, but I found out tonight that MySQL has tons of great vocal talent. :-p   Patrick G was the star of the night!

Patrik B, of course, did it "his way".

Mark (left) and Jim (right) were my non-singer compadres.

And Eric (in the tye dyed shirt) shows us what happens when you apply a little alcohol.  :-)

This evening I received some very important information on how today’s decision of the European Parliament against the mutual recognition of national patents came about:

Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP, who heads the Finnish delegation to the conservative EPP-ED group (the largest group in the European Parliament), took the key initiative in the EPP-ED group meeting last evening in Strasbourg. A “group” in the European Parliament is, simply speaking, an international group of likeminded political parties from multiple European countries. The German CDU/CSU (MEP Lehne’s party) and British Conservatives are particularly well-known member parties of the EPP-ED group.

After we had alerted her yesterday to the …

This one hardly seemed worth a project page. MySQL lacks base64 encode/decode functions, and I needed them, so here they are in procedural SQL. You’ll need MySQL 5.0.19/5.1.8 if you don’t want it to segfault under you when you run them (bug #16887).