Woo, that was fun! I just finished "my talk":http://mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8294 half an hour ago. (update: I've updated the slides to be a page per, uh, page rather than a page per "build")

I got a couple of "that was the {best,most useful} talk at the conference so far!" comments, so that alone made it worth getting up at 5.45am to fly up here!

The slides from the talk are now on the talks page of my new shiny website that Vani put together for me.

I had about 70 slides for 45 minutes (made it in 47!) so it went pretty fast, but I really think that's a lot more fun. I am sitting in the "InnoDB: Designing and Configuring for Best …

I've been following the plethora of "MySQL User Conference":http://mysqluc.com/ postings over at "Planet MySQL":http://www.planetmysql.org/. Woah, it looks like fun!

Sadly I am missing most of it this year. I don't have time to go the whole week, so I am only making it on Wednesday to give my talk "Web Performance and Scalability with MySQL":http://mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8294.

Usually I'd worry tons about my talk, but I think it'll be lots of fun. I've been tuning and fixing up my slides and I really like how it's turning out[1]. Hopefully the people coming to the talk will like it too! :-)

The talk description says "fast paced", and it's not kidding. I have enough content for three talks - but then people would just have too much time to read their email and that's not what they come to the conference for, right? Right?? :-)

Anyway, I'm looking forward to it a lot, except for the part about …

I've been following the plethora of "MySQL User Conference":http://mysqluc.com/ postings over at "Planet MySQL":http://www.planetmysql.org/. Woah, it looks like fun!

Sadly I am missing most of it this year. I don't have time to go the whole week, so I am only making it on Wednesday to give my talk "Web Performance and Scalability with MySQL":http://mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8294.

Usually I'd worry tons about my talk, but I think it'll be lots of fun. I've been tuning and fixing up my slides and I really like how it's turning out[1]. Hopefully the people coming to the talk will like it too! :-)

The talk description says "fast paced", and it's not kidding. I have enough content for three talks - but then people would just have too much time to read their email and that's not what they come to the conference for, right? Right?? :-)

Anyway, I'm looking forward to it a lot, except for the part about …