Yes we're still swimming in the nearly 250 submissions for the MySQL Users Conference.
You will have seen some people scribble about already being accepted, and of course the conference site is now live for registration with all 10 tutorials listed and a number of speakers.

If you made a submission, and haven't heard anything yet, please don't dispair. No news is... no news!
We will get back to you! And many of you will find an "accepted" note in your mailbox. But even if you get a "declined", know that your submission was probably still really good...
In such cases, it could become an article for the MySQL Developer Zone or another online or paper magazine, a whitepaper or case study, or perhaps be used at another conference in the coming year.
Really, we don't want all those excellent proposals go to …

A deep dive into the MySQL select and sort status variables

A deep dive into the MySQL select and sort status variables

It's me -- I start working for the APAC support team in a couple of weeks! I'll have to get that employee badge added on Planet MySQL.

I got it working...

Eclipse

About two monts or so ago, my attention was caught by that remarkable open source product, Eclipse. (Maybe a lot of people are saying "..duh!.." out loud right now, but hey, I can't hear you)

I wrote the MySQL connector/J example accompanying the article in the Call Level Interface section of Andrew Gilfrin's site www.mysqldevelopment.com, using eclipse, very much to my …

Linux Insider has a great story on Nessus' move to closed source with its 3.0 product. The article has some wringing their hands about the decision, acting as if open source were going to shrivel and die because the code's primary developer decided he couldn't make a living off free-loaders.

And so Nessus is facing complaints from users like Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer for StillSecure:

"Here's the danger we are running into," he said. "People contribute resources to these communities, whether it be time, money, or code. When they see everything they give converted for the commercial success of an individual rather than as a community as a whole, how long do you think they are …

Linux Insider has a great story on Nessus' move to closed source with its 3.0 product. The article has some wringing their hands about the decision, acting as if open source were going to shrivel and die because the code's primary developer decided he couldn't make a living off free-loaders.

And so Nessus is facing complaints from users like Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer for StillSecure:"Here's the danger we are running into," he said. "People contribute resources to these communities, whether it be time, money, or code. When they see everything they give converted for the commercial success of an individual rather than as a community as a whole, how long do you think they are …

Registration for the 2006 MySQL Users Conference is now open.  This is the place to be for all things MySQL and to hear from some of the great innovators out there today!  We'll have several good .NET and Mono presentations.  If you're planning on attending, drop me a line and we'll share an IPizza.  :-)

Sometime ago I learned how hard it can be dealing with DMOZ and the so-called Open Directory Project. My lessons learned were that the open directory was open for the editors, and not for everyone. Since that time I have read some shocking specualtion about what goes on at the open directory project.

With Wikipedia I learned this year that unless the topic you want to write about interests a million people, they won't let you publish it.

So where should the developing news and information go to gain an audience without breaking the budget?

For sometime now, I have been working on a web 2.0 style project that aims to add some innovative features on top of certain concepts taken from web 2.0, Wikipedia, and ODP. The alpha version of this project is available online at OpenEncyclopaedia.com with many features planned and coded but not yet deployed. …