We'd like to fill the remaining session slots for MySQL University this year. Currently, there are 7 available slots in 2009, as can be seen here:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_University#Upcoming_Sessions

Anyone who has something technical to say about MySQL qualifies as a speaker. MySQL University sessions take place on Thursday afternoons European time, and normally have between 20 and 30 attendees, but quite a lot of people listen to the recordings when the live session time isn't convenient for them. We're using Dimdim as our conferencing system, so the setup for speakers is very simple: Just grab a headset, start a Flash-enabled browser on either Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or Solaris, perform a …

We'd like to fill the remaining session slots for MySQL University this year. Currently, there are 7 available slots in 2009, as can be seen here:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_University#Upcoming_Sessions

Anyone who has something technical to say about MySQL qualifies as a speaker. MySQL University sessions take place on Thursday afternoons European time, and normally have between 20 and 30 attendees, but quite a lot of people listen to the recordings when the live session time isn't convenient for them. We're using Dimdim as our conferencing system, so the setup for speakers is very simple: Just grab a headset, start a Flash-enabled browser on either Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or Solaris, perform a …

We'd like to fill the remaining session slots for MySQL University this year. Currently, there are 7 available slots in 2009, as can be seen here:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_University#Upcoming_Sessions

Anyone who has something technical to say about MySQL qualifies as a speaker. MySQL University sessions take place on Thursday afternoons European time, and normally have between 20 and 30 attendees, but quite a lot of people listen to the recordings when the live session time isn't convenient for them. We're using Dimdim as our conferencing system, so the setup for speakers is very simple: Just grab a headset, start a Flash-enabled browser on either Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or Solaris, perform a …

Last Thursday (September 17, 13:00 UTC), Lars Thalmann explained the Architecture of MySQL Backup. Lars is leading the MySQL Replication & Backup teams, and has given several MySQL University sessions before.

I was on sick leave last week and forgot to announce this session - sorry!  However, since the session was recorded (video & audio), you can listen to it anytime. Please find the recording and the presentation slides on this page.

MySQL University is a free educational online program for engineers/developers. MySQL University sessions are open to anyone, not just Sun employees. Sessions are recorded (slides and audio), so if you can't attend the live session you can look at the recording anytime after the session.

Here's the …

Last Thursday (September 17, 13:00 UTC), Lars Thalmann explained the Architecture of MySQL Backup. Lars is leading the MySQL Replication & Backup teams, and has given several MySQL University sessions before.

I was on sick leave last week and forgot to announce this session - sorry!  However, since the session was recorded (video & audio), you can listen to it anytime. Please find the recording and the presentation slides on this page.

MySQL University is a free educational online program for engineers/developers. MySQL University sessions are open to anyone, not just Sun employees. Sessions are recorded (slides and audio), so if you can't attend the live session you can look at the recording anytime after the session.

Here's the …

Last Thursday (September 17, 13:00 UTC), Lars Thalmann explained the Architecture of MySQL Backup. Lars is leading the MySQL Replication & Backup teams, and has given several MySQL University sessions before.

I was on sick leave last week and forgot to announce this session - sorry!  However, since the session was recorded (video & audio), you can listen to it anytime. Please find the recording and the presentation slides on this page.

MySQL University is a free educational online program for engineers/developers. MySQL University sessions are open to anyone, not just Sun employees. Sessions are recorded (slides and audio), so if you can't attend the live session you can look at the recording anytime after the session.

Here's the …

I have somehow managed to weasel been selected to speak at a few of the upcoming conferences this October.  I will be presenting at the various conferences either on Performance tuning the MySQL server or on using EXPLAIN.  I know... I know - they must be crazy to have picked me, but I am not crazy enough to turn down the opportunity.

 I will be speaking at Codeworks -Miami (Sept 30 - Oct 1), the Zend PHP Conference (Oct 19 - 22) and the Florida Linux Show (Oct 24) so if you are attending or just in the area - be sure to find me for a chat.  If you are at the Florida Linux Show I will be in the MySQL booth and should also have some goodies to hand out as well - thanks to …

Been a while since we did a post for open positions but this is an important one so wanted to get it out there.

Position Overview:
Manage Zimbra’s rapidly growing technical community and launch our developer outreach program.  A key part of Zimbra’s rapid growth and ongoing success is the ability for us to engage and interact with our open source community.  This position will take the solid base we’ve grown over the past 5 yrs and define and implement a Zimbra developer program to lower the bar for external developers, partners and customers to build solutions around the Zimbra platform.  This will include expanding and leveraging the relationships between Zimbra, our customers, our developers and our sysadmin community members.  A few of the existing public tools and touch points are listed below. This position will build upon and improve the current tools and evaluate and add to these as needed.  The …

Today's the day I fly to Los Angeles to teach a private training class, en route to Santa Clara/San Francisco for our public training workshops next week.

Our Montreal practice teach at Station-C went great - it was an opportunity to do a road test and iron out any kinks in the delivery.

What did I learn in the process?

• Solid examples provide context.  I didn't have the best SHOW GLOBAL STATUS data for the practice teach, but I've edited my slides and our official classes will have much better information.
• Operational issues are one of the most important things people want to hear more information on.  A fair number of students know that dropping an index is not as painless as it should be, but not everyone knows about tools like Flipper and MMM.  It's not the main focus of our InnoDB/XtraDB workshop, but we will cover how to solve these …

In addition to informing you about the events, this calendar does also tell you when a …