This is more of an essay than a blog post, but this subject comes up time and again, and since I tripped across this interesting blog post by Pedro Timóteo about why he has decided not to be a sysadmin any more, I thought now’s as good a time as any to comment on what [...]

Another early start. But how could I miss Rasmus talking about PHP. The slides are there if you are interested. The history of PHP is fascinating, and it is interesting to see how it evolved. Rasmus also showed us how the MySQL conference site (run by O’Reilly) and the IBM site were vulnerable to Cross [...]

Starting out bright and early again. I have a feeling Martin and Yannick might gang up on me for waking them up so early every morning and making sure we are on our way at 7am sharp, but it’s worth it. We did make it here for the keynotes. The first session was Freedom Businesses [...]

So Shirley sent me an SMS to let me know my rehearsal was scheduled, and I managed to set up my (Linux) laptop with the projector, so I’m all set. Special thanks to Lauren from O’Reilly conferences who is awesome with computers and projectors, and didn’t blink an eye when I told him we might [...]

I got an early start to the day today. I still don’t have a rehearsal schedule for my presentation, so I may have to miss lunch to get the opportunity to test out my slides (which will be posted on this blog, by the way). But thats a minor irritant - I do have them in PDF, so worst-case I’ll just use the computer/projector set-up provided by the a/v crew.

The keynotes started with Mårten Mickos, the CEO of MySQL AB giving us a “State of MySQL” address. Keeping all the people together in a company where 70% of the employees work from home and are distributed across hundreds of cities across the world is no easy task, and I have a lot of respect for him.

The roadmap for MySQL looks very interesting, with 5.1 expected to be stable by the end of the …

Day 0 (tutorials), post 2. (I’m still working on the versioning thing — bear with me.) I snuck into the 5.1 new features session halfway through but definitely well worth it. Lots of new features coming out in 5.1 though Brian Aker admits some of them are not quite production-ready yet, so don’t go [...]

A quick note for those of you enjoying the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007 in Santa Clara this week. As part of Pythian’s Gold sponsorship of the conference, we’re trying something new. We understand that the tradeshow floor for booth sponsors is a bit out of the way, and in any case, there were no [...]

It was a nice enough flight from Ottawa to Chicago to San Jose, if a little long. Security (or the baggage handlers) completely trashed our boxes of information folders, but I think we managed to salvage some… so if you’re looking for information on Pythian, come see us early. The weather here is just like [...]

I will be out of the office all next week, so expect more blog posts from me! That’s not a joke — both Yannick Gratton and I will be at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, taking in all the material we can, processing it, and spewing out what I hope will be [...]

Big insider news on James Governor’s blog. If you don’t know who James Governor and Redmonk are, you should. They are giving the bigwigs (Gartner, IDC, Forrester et alia) a run for their money in technology analysis. Anyway, the news is this, and the details are very sketchy:

MySQL has signed a million euro deal The client is [...]