Feb
04
2016
Jan
28
2016
What about an hackathon to fix several issues in Innotop during this Fosdem 2016 edition ?
As the MySQL & Friends Devroom is on Saturday, Sunday would be the perfect day to find a nice place in the bar and work on resolving the open issues in Innotop to support MariaDB 10.1, MySQL 5.7…
If you are interested just send me a tweet (@lefred) and we can arrange this meeting.
Jan
22
2016
FOSDEM is once again descending on the ULB in Brussels, and so again will there be a MySQL and Friends Devroom. Tradition calls for a MySQL and Friends Community Dinner, and we certainly aim not to disappoint this year!
Like last year, we’ll be renting the same private space to allow for easy socializing (at ICAB , more detailed directions below).
As such, prepare for an evening of food, drink and jolly conversation rivaling the great feasts of old. Disclaimer: Apart from jolliness, overindulgence on any account can not be blamed on the organizers of this event.
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Jan
12
2016
Over the weekend I read in the FT (paywall): Is Brussels safe? Ring a local resident to find out. I’m sure it will be fine, and you will want to be there for FOSDEM, happening 30-31 January 2016.
There is the excellent one day track, that is the MySQL & Friends Devroom (site). Talks hail from Oracle, MariaDB Corporation, Percona and more. We don’t have a booth this year, but we do have amazingly good content on Saturday. I’m happy to have been part of the committee that chose the talks, but you know that this is a labour of love put on by Frédéric Descamps, Liz van Dijk, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, and Kenny Gryp. …
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Dec
18
2015
| Event | Speakers | Start | End | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday | ||||
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Growing the MySQL Ecosystem How do we get more of 'us'? |
Dave Stokes | 10:30 | 10:50 | |
| … |
Oct
23
2015
FOSDEM 2016 edition will be held January 30 and 31 in Brussels like every year since 2000.
The MySQL & Friends Devroom is back on Saturday from 9.00AM.
What is FOSDEM? It stands for the “Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting.” It’s a free event that offers open-source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
CfP is open until December 1st!
Don’t forget to submit your sessions (submit here, don’t forget to select MySQL track) before December and see you soon in Brussels to discover amazing stuff related to MySQL and have some beers with …
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Oct
22
2015
Good news !
FOSDEM accepted our devroom for the next edition.
The MySQL devroom will take place on Saturday, January 30th 2016.
Stay tuned for the Call For Paper !!
Mar
03
2015
In MySQL Character encoding – part 1 we stated that the myriad of ways in which character encoding can be controlled can lead to many situations where your data may not be available as expected.
UTF8 was designed on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992.
Setting MySQL Client and Server Character encoding.
Lets restart MySQL with the correct setting for our purpose, UTF8. Here we can see the setting in the MySQL configuration file, in this case /etc/mysql/my.cnf.
character-set-server = utf8
This change is then reflected in the session and global variables once the instance is restarted with the new configuration parameter.
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Feb
12
2015
Breaking and unbreaking your data
Recently at FOSDEM, Maciej presented “Breaking and unbreaking your data”, a presentation about the potential problems you can incur regarding character encoding whilst working with MySQL. In short, there are a myriad of places where character encoding can be controlled, which gives ample opportunity for the system to break and for text to become unrecoverable.
The slides from the presentation are available on slideshare.
Character Encoding – MySQL DevRoom – FOSDEM 2015 from …
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Feb
09
2015
