Thanks to all who attended my talks at FrOSCon 2008. It was a pleasurable experience, as it has always been in the past.
The slides of my two sessions are published in the MySQL Presentation Repository

• MySQL Community How To
• MySQL Sandbox

A picture says it all. Special offers at a FrOSCon books booth.
For how long is an IT book in its prime?

As last year, MySQL will host three Customer Conferences in Europe. They will take place at the following dates and locations:

• Thursday, October 23, 2008: London, UK
• Tuesday, October 21, 2008: Munich, Germany
• Wednesday, November 19, 2008: Paris, France

The content differs slightly per location, but there will be sessions in two parallel tracks on a wide range of topics, including success stories from customers as well as talks on very technical/practical topics. Here are some excerpts from the agenda for the UK Event:

• Delivering Web 2.0 Applications with MySQL and …

I just got informed that two of my session proposals for DrupalCon 2008 got accepted - I will be speaking about the following topics there:

• MySQL Backup and Security - Best practices
• High availability solutions for MySQL: An Overview and practical demo

The second talk will be held in cooperation with Jakub Suchy, who will take over the practical demo. Sun Microsystems is a Gold …

There was a huge Sun booth at OSCON 2008. During opening hours, there were always sessions at the booth, with well known open source presenters.


After hours, you had the choice between socializing on your own or go to the organized events or go to the BoFs, like this one, where Monty presented what he called "community services" in the shape of black vodka mixed to mint candies.

The event was, of course, the Sun Party, where many strange things happened.

Jay challenged Ronald to a sumo wrestling match, only to …

Julian Cash is well known, among other things, for being the photographer of the open source communities, as you can see from his photo stream, or this picture of his newest book.

For more books, you can look at The human creativity project.
At OSCON 2008, participants could attach one or more ribbons to their badge, to state their affiliation with a project or an idea. When the sought ribbon was not available, there were blank ones that users could fill with their favorite topics.
As you can see here, I made free use of the ribbons. Julian Cash, instead, stated his affiliation with Perl quite strongly.
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The presentation about MySQL Proxy at OSCON 2008 is over.

Here are the slides.

Thanks to my co-presenter Ronald Bradford and to all the participants. If you have more questions about the session, please use this blog's comments.

As Tom and I will be heading to Ottawa for OLS Tomorrow you can expect some active blogging here this week..

That is if we can manage to find quality Wifi and our batteries last long enough..
before we find power :)

Anyway .. I`ll be heading to the Virtualization Mini Summit on tuesday, and then of to the big conference.

I`ll be presenting twice, once on the miniconf about openQRM4 and Tom and I will be presenting our findings comparing different monitoring tools such as Nagios, Hyperic, Zabbix , Zenoss and others at OLS itselve.

But don't hesitate to talk to me about other interresting topics such as MySQL or Drupal :)

Now first we have to cross a couple of borders, and an ocean :)

We did it. Designing Scalable Architectures with MySQL Proxy was delivered successfully, with over 150 attendees.
There is a large number of questions that were asked during the session, and you can find them in MySQL Proxy FAQ.
The slides, with the highly entertaining images used by John Loehrer to illustrate his point are also online
Finally, John posted his Connection pooler Lua script in the Forge.
Thanks to John Loehrer for his lively presentation, to Jimmy Guerrero and Rich Taylor for organizing the event, to Jan Kneschke, for answering questions online …