Some time ago I wrote in Russian language guide for finding errors in SQL application.

To be honest I wrote it having personal aim to have a text which I can easily use refer in case of user questions about how to find particular thing. But this makes less sense having no English version. So now I started to translate it to English and publish. Introduction and first chapter are ready.

You can find it at http://sql-error.microbecal.com/en/index.html  Comments and corrections of mistakes are welcome here.

Some time ago I wrote in Russian language guide for finding errors in SQL application.

To be honest I wrote it having personal aim to have a text which I can easily use refer in case of user questions about how to find particular thing. But this makes less sense having no English version. So now I started to translate it to English and publish. Introduction and first chapter are ready.

You can find it at http://sql-error.microbecal.com/en/index.html  Comments and corrections of mistakes are welcome here.

This blog post is just to list links and tips on getting home to Finland.

First leg: getting to anywhere in Europe

Being stuck in San Fransisco, my first problem has been to get just anywhere closer to home. Taking a boat from America to Europe takes from 6-15 days and is not significantly cheaper than flying. So the best bet is just to fly to Europe.

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I've been working in a fully distributed work environment for almost 8 years now (I joined MySQL AB in April, 2002). Therefore I've been reading Toni Schneider's blog post about the "5 reasons why your company should be distributed" with great interest – he raised several points that I fully agree with and which I covered in my talks about "Working for a virtual company - how we do it at MySQL" at last year's next09 conference (slides, video) and at …

Between following (from a distance) the talks at Fosdem and anticipating the ones at MySQL User Conference in April, I was reminded of 2 interesting MySQL talks that have had a deeper meaning to me than their original speakers probably intended. I thought today could be a good time to share these 2 stories that for me personally are filed in the "things I learned from MySQL AB and Sun" folder...

"If you can't solve the problem, try solving some other problem"

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I am still a MySQL/Sun/Oracle employee, but the process made me realize I should just dust off my own domain and, um, be master of it. 

Future entries will be at http://www.worldgonemad.com/blogs/

Anybody else wanting a blog site is happy to use mine as well.  

Thanks!

Notes from Enterprise2.0 Conference

Notes from Enterprise2.0 Conference

Notes from Enterprise2.0 Conference

In December, I'll give a talk at SAPO Codebits 2009 in Lisbon, Portual. SAPO Codebits is a hacking event held in Portugal annually, completely organized and sponsored by SAPO, a portuguese ISP and subsidiary company of the Portugal Telecom Group.

I will be speaking about web server architectures, web services in general and discuss the pros and cons of different programing languages (like PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, ASP.NET) and database technologies in the field of web application development, deployment and hosting. In order to save time and keep development costs at a reasonable level, it's very important to identify system flaws and architectural weaknesses in an early stage of the development process.

The talk shows pitfalls and common mistakes developers make when building …