Wow, I'm done with my book ""Developing Web Applications using Perl, memcached, MySQL and Apache" which is slated for July sale. What an experience, one that I intend to write about some day in a separate post. Now I can get back to managing some of my open source projects which need attention. These include:

* DBD::mysql
* DBD::drizzle
* FederatedX Storage Engine
* Memcached Functions For MySQL
* MySQL Web Tutorial Site

I'm really excited- this week I just started working with a fellow Stiepan Kovac (IT-Kovac, Geneva CH). He's been working on implementing SSL into Federated. We are going to try out Amazon's EC2 for our development. Seems pretty interesting so far. No need to have to go through the trouble of installing a Linux box - just select what I want, turn it one and use it!

Another reason for this post is because I'm quite excited about what I've been working on and have …