I'm back home from DrupalCon 2008 now - it has been a great event! I met a lot of nice people from the Drupal Community and learned a lot about this CMS. I've been very busy in uploading the remaining pictures from the event to my gallery - so here's for your viewing pleasure:
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Aug
29
2008
Though the event is still happening in Charlottesville, VA Nov. 14-16th (Fri night through Sunday), the new web page for OpenSQL Camp is http://www.opensqlcamp.org. The content has been ported over to MediaWiki, and a captcha has been put in place that is activated on any page change that adds an external URL.
Whether you are into MySQL, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, or some other open source SQL database, go forth and register for OpenSQL Camp, without having to login! (Disclosure: if you do not create a login, your IP is tracked.)
Aug
28
2008
Hello and greetings from DrupalCon 2008 in Szeged, Hungary!
We (Thierry Manfé, Scott Mattoon and myself) are having a great time manning our booth and talking about Drupal, MySQL and Open Source@Sun with the nice crowd of Drupal Users and Developers here. Sun is a gold sponsor of the event and we're giving a number of sessions as well.
Today I gave my first presentation about MySQL Backup and Security - Best practices - unfortunately I ran a tad bit out of time at the end... The slides have already been attached to the session page, so you can read up on the last few things I was going to talk about. Feel free to contact me, if you have further questions!
Tomorrow I'll be talking about …
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Aug
27
2008
Along with some others, I have arranged a conference for open-source database users and developers.
Key facts:
It is of, by and for the community (you). At this event, all open-source databases are created equal. We’ll learn together and grow together. It’s a combination conference and hackathon. It’s free. It is Friday night Nov 14, 18:00 through Sun the 16th [...]
Aug
25
2008
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Thanks to all who attended my talks at FrOSCon 2008. It was a
pleasurable experience, as it has always been in the past.
The slides of my two sessions are published in the MySQL Presentation Repository
Aug
25
2008
Aug
07
2008
As last year, MySQL will host three Customer Conferences in Europe. They will take place at the following dates and locations:
- Thursday, October 23, 2008: London, UK
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008: Munich, Germany
- Wednesday, November 19, 2008: Paris, France
The content differs slightly per location, but there will be sessions in two parallel tracks on a wide range of topics, including success stories from customers as well as talks on very technical/practical topics. Here are some excerpts from the agenda for the UK Event:
- Delivering Web 2.0 Applications with MySQL and …
Aug
05
2008
I just got informed that two of my session proposals for DrupalCon 2008 got accepted - I will be speaking about the following topics there:
- MySQL Backup and Security - Best practices
- High availability solutions for MySQL: An Overview and practical demo
The second talk will be held in cooperation with Jakub Suchy, who will take over the practical demo. Sun Microsystems is a Gold …
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Every year, MySQL engineers gather together for the
developers meeting. It's the time of the highest productivity
and fun at the same time. It starts usually by performing an
old play, Guess who I am, featuring 100 employees who
know each other by name but not by face. At every new
entrance, a flurry of introductions is acknowledged and
promptly forgotten, leaving the unfamiliar faces deprived of
the familiar names. So a few minutes later the same people
run around each other again, staring nonchalantly at the name
tags, trying to avoid a gaffe. Despite the fierce fight for a
name, nobody gets hurt, and in the end the leading actors and
support roles go back to the script of exchanging geeky
thoughts in person, as confidently as if they were doing that
through the IRC. During these meetings, the following glossary was developed. Its origins … |
Jul
29
2008
There was a huge Sun booth at OSCON 2008. During opening hours,
there were always sessions at the booth, with well known open
source presenters.
After hours, you had the choice between socializing on your own
or go to the organized events or go to the BoFs, like this one,
where Monty presented what he called "community services" in the
shape of black vodka mixed to mint candies.
The event was, of course, the Sun Party, where many
strange things happened.
Jay challenged Ronald to a sumo wrestling match, only to …