Raj Kissu is in the papers today. He completed a Google Summer of Code 2008 project with MySQL, hacking on blob streaming for phpMyAdmin. In fact, his project was so good, he has commit access to the phpMyAdmin tree :-)
Today, The Star had an article about him (and two other students), titled For the love of code. He said:
But Raj has already heard inquiries for his project. “A company that has developed a transactional engine using MySQL server have clients who want to test BlobStreaming,” he said.
Kudos Raj. I think we’ll see more great work from Paul McCullagh and Barry Leslie, as more happens with Scalable BLOB Streaming for MySQL happens.
In fact, Barry Leslie …
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