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I must be awake for about 24 hours now, things are getting a bit blurry. But I have arrived at our MySQL Staff Meeting here in Orlando safely! My flight with Northwest airlines from Frankfurt via Detroit was uneventful - the plane was pretty empty so I was happy to have two seats for myself! The board entertainment program was neat, I really prefer video on demand over scheduled movie broadcasts (I watched "The Nanny Diaries", which was quite funny, and "The Fantastic Four", which had some nice CG effects).

While standing in the immigration line in Detroit somebody in the line next to us waved to me - it was Tobias "Flupps" Asplund, one of our trainers! Quite a funny coincidence, he just had arrived via Amsterdam. We actually were on the same flight from Detroit …

I am happy to announce that I have been selected to speak at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 on April 14-17, 2008 in Santa Clara, CA. The topic of my talk will be "Performing MySQL Backups using LVM Snapshots" - and I will of course include a plug for the mylvmbackup tool

From the abstract:

Modern Linux distributions provide a very advanced technology to maintain and administer storage devices, called “Logical Volume Manager” (LVM). Among providing several benefits over using plain hard disk partitions, one of the unique features of LVM is the capability to create snapshots of file systems on the fly. This functionality comes in handy for performing consistent …

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world?s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world?s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world?s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor.

I'm usually pretty good with these things - I get a CfP invite and I blog about it to let more people know. I completely forgot in this case, must've been the xmas season. Luckily the CfP is still open for a few more days, so you can still get in a proposal if you're interested: http://dlw-europe.com/konferenzen/dlw08/cfp/index.html

This new conference is run by my friend Masoud Kamali of S&S Verlag, who is also responsible for the International PHP Conference (Frankfurt, every November) and quite a few other events. The Dynamic Languages conf will be held in Karlsruhe, that's just a bit further South from Frankfurt - easy to reach via ICE (high speed) train.

This conference is about scripting languages and related frameworks, optimisation/scaling, security and such. So, there's no specific database topic even. I made one …

So I managed to answer all those questions correctly and the US Border Control officer kindly let us into the country. It was easy since the questions were the same as the last time I visited the US in 2000. Filling this sheet is always a fun time, it makes me wonder wanna know wether there exist any statistics on how many terrorists and drug trafficants get caught by accidentally filling in the wrong box :-) Then of course there are some tricky questions, what if you are traveling to the US to engange in immoral but legal activities. From what I know sitting naked in the sauna would already be suspicious here ;-D

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previously
Stroll on over to the DPM's minimalist homepage and grab the latest release tarball, export tarball, clone the git repo, or peruse gitweb.

While I did some porting work, this release has not been explicitly tested on all of the platforms yet. If there are bugs with a particular platform, please report.

This release fixes a lot of outstanding complaints I had with the power of the API, and many known obnoxious bugs and restrictions. Like the previous inability to listen on INADDR_ANY, or use unix domain sockets, etc. There are still a number of usability/troubleshooting gotchas when writing programs using DPM, but aside from the learning curve most of it should work now. There are no known crash bugs or memory leaks (aside from a "leak" in the dpml library under …

previously
Stroll on over to the DPM's minimalist homepage and grab the latest release tarball, export tarball, clone the git repo, or peruse gitweb.

While I did some porting work, this release has not been explicitly tested on all of the platforms yet. If there are bugs with a particular platform, please report.

This release fixes a lot of outstanding complaints I had with the power of the API, and many known obnoxious bugs and restrictions. Like the previous inability to listen on INADDR_ANY, or use unix domain sockets, etc. There are still a number of usability/troubleshooting gotchas when writing programs using DPM, but aside from the learning curve most of it should work now. There are no known crash bugs or memory leaks (aside from a "leak" in the dpml library under …

Hmm. I’ve spent about 31 hours in flight and in transit, to get to Orlando, Florida. Good news is that I’ve arrived, all safe and dandy.

Singapore Airlines is now flying the A340-500 to Los Angeles or San Francisco, from Singapore. Its truly got to be the best plane for long haul flights. Notice that you get direct flights to America? No more transiting in Narita. I was given a seat in Executive Economy Class (I wonder why? Maybe its because of my collected miles/status, as it used to and still does happen on United, a Star Alliance partner). What’s cool there? Power. Yes, nice, in-flight power, suitable for devices that support 110V (read: all modern laptop PSUs).

Food was great (new menus), and I tried the much recommended Singapore Sling, and realised that it tastes …