After a nice long vacation, it's time to unveil our destinations for public classes in 2010. We are now offering a course for Developers as well as DBAs. The dates are:
The tracks of this year's "MySQL & Friends" Developer Room at FOSDEM 2010 have now been scheduled - please check the Wiki page for details on the talks as well as some background information about the speakers. This info should soon be available via the FOSDEM conference system as well. We had some last-minute changes and we actually managed to schedule two more talks due to a small glitch in the initial calculation. The topics look very interesting, we hope that we can provide some valuable information for developers, users as well as MySQL DBAs!
One of our speakers (Kris Buytaert) suggested to arrange a joint dinner for Saturday evening, which is indeed a good idea! Thankfully he also volunteered for coordinating it - thanks in advance! If …
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On January 15th I will be in Sydney, Au, on my way to Wellington, New Zealand. I will be at the MySQL User Group, hosted at the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts at 5.30pm. I will talk about testing complex database systems with MySQL Sandbox. The meeting is open to all. If you want to attend, please register at the Sydney MySQL User Group meetup page. |
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On January 13th I will be in Dubai, UAE, on my way to Wellington, New Zealand. I will be at the MySQL User Group, hosted at Sun Microsystems offices at 6pm. I will talk about boosting performance with MySQL 5.1 partitions, covering the recent 5.5. additions. The meeting is open to all. If you want to attend, please register at the meetup page. |
FOSDEM 2010, Sunday 7 February, the MySQL Developer Room packed with 12 talks! And this year we serve Python just before the lunch break.
In 20 minutes I'll try to give an overview of the drivers currently available for connecting your Python applications with MySQL. Incase you wonder, this will not evolve around MySQL Connector/Python alone!
We'll also go over some frameworks and tools like SQLAlchemy.
20 minutes, it's not much, but should be enough. I hope to get a similar talk accepted for the MySQL Conference&Expo 2010.
We are happy to announce the selected sessions for our "MySQL and Friends" developer room at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. It will take place on Sunday, 7th of February from 9:00-17:00 in Room AW1.121.
In total, we received 20 submissions from 15 speakers. We'd like to thank them very much for their great proposals!
As we only have 12 speaking slots (20 mins each) available that day, we first needed to perform a selection process. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to perform a full-blown voting process that involved the community at large. Since we didn't want to do this in a completely closed committee, we decided to involve all speakers that submitted a talk in this.
After this voting process, the final candidates are (ordered by last name).
Update: Mikael …
[Read more]A Happy New Year to all of you! About a month ago we posted our initial Call for Papers for the MySQL Developer Room at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. We already received several great submissions and we'd like to thank the speakers who contributed their suggestions so far. But we would like to get some more!
Therefore we decided to extend the deadline for a few more days: you can still submit your talk proposals until tomorrow (Wednesday, 6th)!
So if you think you have an interesting MySQL-related topic to
talk about, we'd like to hear about it! Thanks.
It's been interesting watching the MySQL drama unfold, but I have to take issue when people start trying to drag Postgres into it again by spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). Rather than simply rebut the FUD, I thought this was a good opportunity to examine the strength of the Postgres project.
Monty recently espoused the following in a blog comment:
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The MySQL Conference 2010, with Sun Microsystems as a founding sponsor, has been announced and the call for participation is open. It's coming later than usual, but it's an opportunity for would be speakers. They will be able to propose talks based on the latest technology, making it even more interesting for attendees. Some of the program is already online. The tutorial page has a great lineup of speakers and advanced topics. More will … |