Long time no speak! Hey non-avid readers!

I’ve been keeping my head down lately working away in our support group, and haven’t had much time to get any tips down on my blog or even any thoughts in general.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been polishing up my presentation - MySQL for Oracle DBAs, which is on the last day - next Thursday, April 27th.

http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8465

If you’re reading this - and around at our user conference next week - seek me out and say “Hi!”.

I’ll work on a number of blog posts after the conference, which will give some of the information available in my presentation as well.

Look forward to saying “Hi!” to as many of you as possible!

Long time no speak! Hey non-avid readers!

I’ve been keeping my head down lately working away in our support group, and haven’t had much time to get any tips down on my blog or even any thoughts in general.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been polishing up my presentation - MySQL for Oracle DBAs, which is on the last day - next Thursday, April 27th.

http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8465

If you’re reading this - and around at our user conference next week - seek me out and say “Hi!”.

I’ll work on a number of blog posts after the conference, which will give some of the information available in my presentation as well.

Look forward to saying “Hi!” to as many of you as possible!

Many MySQL critics have complaint about the lacking of key features, scalability and standards compliance. They also often complain about users who fall for MySQL's successful marketing, short of blaming the inherit evil nature of the universe why such inferior technology is so popular.

While MySQL has been catching up on all of the above mentioned fronts, it cannot be denied that one of its key strength's is its active community. While some will argue that this community was a direct result of giving the masses the features they needed, instead of clobbering them with features that would just overwhelm these often self educated people. Others might simply attribute this to their effective marketing machinery. However even today MySQL attracts new users even though the product has become considerably more complex. This is probably due to its clear dominance as the OSS database of choice. At the same time MySQL is now able to make in roads …

Here‘s a snapshot of my view out the office window…Yes, it‘s starting to look like springtime here in Chicago.

That also means it‘s that time of year where I start travelling for conferences. This year is shaping up to be light so far, but of course I will be at the MySQL Users' Conference next week in Santa Clara, CA.

Besides giving a tutorial, and two talks, I'm also looking forward to being part of the Java and MySQL community, hanging out at Gavin's talk about Hibernate and Seam, and participating in the …

Here's a snapshot of my view out the office window...Yes, it's starting to look like springtime here in Chicago.

That also means it's that time of year where I start travelling for conferences. This year is shaping up to be light so far, but of course I will be at the MySQL Users' Conference next week in Santa Clara, CA.

Besides giving a tutorial, and two talks, I'm also looking forward to being part of the Java and MySQL community, hanging out at Gavin's talk about Hibernate and Seam, and participating in the …

Here‘s a snapshot of my view out the office window…Yes, it‘s starting to look like springtime here in Chicago.

That also means it‘s that time of year where I start travelling for conferences. This year is shaping up to be light so far, but of course I will be at the MySQL Users' Conference next week in Santa Clara, CA.

Besides giving a tutorial, and two talks, I'm also looking forward to being part of the Java and MySQL community, hanging out at Gavin's talk about Hibernate and Seam, and participating in the …

Well I fear it is not that simple. As avid readers of my blog may have noticed I have some beef with the Zend PHP IDE proposal that was recently accepted by the Eclipse Foundation. After studying the Eclipse Foundation governance rules, looking at the facts and talking to people from Zend, I am reminded once again that it is important that people realize that open source is not about licenses.

Of course the OSI might intentionally or unintentionally make you think that licenses is all that matters. I thought it was very telling that one of the comments in my "What open source is not" post noted that the OSI in fact makes it clear that the term "open source" is a marketing term. A way to supersede the "free software" term that is so closely associated with …

The Melbourne MySQL User Group April Meetup

Should be fun! I’m going to talk about Cluster.

Just got back from the MySQL DevCon in Sorrento, Italy, followed by a fortnight's working holiday in Bangkok. The day before I left Italy, I received a 5AM call advising me that someone had broken into the house (again). My useless sod of a rental agent was reported to have said, "If he thought he might get broken into, he oughtn't have gone overseas." WTF? I was supposed to ring up our CEO and tell him, "Hey, Mårten, you don't mind pushing back the conference about six months until Yong Property Management (pathetically negligent) decide to pull their finger out and do something about the shoddy locks on the windows and doors of that piece of crap I pay them $300 a fortnight for, do you?" Right! Those losers couldn't even be bothered to come secure the door after the fact. If it'd not been for my yard guy and my housekeeper taking matters into their own hands and doing something about my back door having the glass bashed out of it and gaily …

Just got back from the MySQL DevCon in Sorrento, Italy, followed by a fortnight's working holiday in Bangkok. The day before I left Italy, I received a 5AM call advising me that someone had broken into the house (again). My useless sod of a rental agent was reported to have said, "If he thought he might get broken into, he oughtn't have gone overseas." WTF? I was supposed to ring up our CEO and tell him, "Hey, Mårten, you don't mind pushing back the conference about six months until Yong Property Management (pathetically negligent) decide to pull their finger out and do something about the shoddy locks on the windows and doors of that piece of crap I pay them $300 a fortnight for, do you?" Right! Those losers couldn't even be bothered to come secure the door after the fact. If it'd not been for my yard guy and my housekeeper taking matters into their own hands and doing something about my back door having the glass bashed out of it and gaily …