I presented my tutorial at the MySQL Conference & Expo today. I have fun preparing it and presenting it, and I got many good questions and comments from the audience. Thanks to everyone for coming and participating!I have uploaded my slides with a Creative Common 3.0 license to my SlideShare account: http://www.slideshare.net/billkarwinFor those who did not get to see my tutorial, I'm
Apr
21
2009
Apr
20
2009
Today, for me is day 1 of the MySQL Confernece & Expo 2009. It seems to be going pretty well - and its only 2.45pm.
If you follow Planet MySQL, or happen to just have random conversations with people, the main buzz for the day is “Oracle buying Sun”. But let me not bore you with that. I just want to log some of my interesting conversations.
Over lunch I had a good discussion with users of MySQL, and one potential user of MySQL (his company uses Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, and are now looking at MySQL). We talked about quite a number of things:
- The documentation (which I, and the rest of the MySQL users use) seems to not be complete for an Oracle person. Why? It seems we’re missing out on things like the models. We lack enough theory. People would like to “see” (visually) what the InnoDB buffer pool does, not just read about it. In fact, it also seems like we might need to be clearer with the use of …
Apr
20
2009
Just like this time last year (I hope this isn't a perennial
event) everybody is expressing fear, uncertainty and doubt about
the future of MySQL in the wake of yet another acquisition. What
is going to happen?
MySQL isn't going to disappear tomorrow. Or even in the next ten
years. Why?
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- The internet runs on the LAMP stack. There is so much
technological infrastructure dedicated to MySQL that anybody
would be crazy to think that it is going to disappear anytime
soon. Hell, lots of companies still run 4.0 databases.
- The MySQL codebase is GPL. Even if Oracle just closed up the
MySQL office and set everybody packing the source code is ours to
use, to repackage, to redistribute and to enhance. Drizzle
already exists as a fork and others could emerge. I don't think
that forks and alternative distributions are bad.
So if MySQL isn't going to disappear, what is …
Apr
18
2009
The BoF schedule for MySQL
Conference and Expo (2009) is now published. Lenz Grimmer,
Sergei Golubchik, Tomas Ulin and myself will be available during
a BoF which focuses on MySQL Community Code Contributions. Lenz will
be moderating. For background material, you may start here.
Apr
17
2009
The BoF schedule for MySQL
Conference and Expo (2009) is now published. Lenz Grimmer,
Sergei Golubchik, Tomas Ulin and myself will be available during
a BoF which focuses on MySQL Community Code Contributions. Lenz will
be moderating. For background material, you may start here.
Apr
17
2009
The BoF schedule for MySQL
Conference and Expo (2009) is now published. Lenz Grimmer,
Sergei Golubchik, Tomas Ulin and myself will be available during
a BoF which focuses on MySQL Community Code Contributions. Lenz will
be moderating. For background material, you may start here.
Apr
16
2009
Giuseppe Maxia and I are in the exact middle of our leg of theMySQL Campus Tour. Yesterday’s session was recorded — play the video online right in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/700/play or download the 80 Mb .mov file at http://technocation.org/node/700/download.
A PDF of the slides can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2009_04_Tour.pdf (21 Mb).
Click on the thumbnails for larger pictures of the standing-room
only crowd, and lunch with the great folks at Cal Poly
afterwards:
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Apr
16
2009
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The second leg of the Southern California MySQL Campus Tour was at UCLA. There was less attendance than Cal Poly. Only 22 brave souls who endured a lengthy session with a long tail of Q&A. The excitement came on my way back to my hotel, 25 miles from the campus. Distances have a different meaning here. A few dozen miles is just a tiny portion of the town, and so I found myself once more driving the endless highways of Los Angeles. |
When I was almost home, I saw all the cars in front of me stopping, for what I …
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Apr
16
2009
We have an ongoing Drizzle milestone called low-hanging-fruit. The idea is that when there’s something that could be done, but we don’t quite have the time to do it immediately, we’ll add a low-hanging-fruit blueprint so that people looking to get a start on the codebase and contributing code to Drizzle have a place to go to find things to do.
Some of my personal favourites are:
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Apr
16
2009
We’re having a Drizzle Developer Day just after the MySQL Conference and Expo next week. You don’t have to be attending the conference to come to the Drizzle Developer Day. Just bring your enthusiasm for free databases, Drizzle and good software. Spaces are limited, so head on over to the signup page and fill in your name if you haven’t already
If coming from the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara (where the MySQL Conference and Expo is), at least I will be driving from there, so let me know if you want a lift.