Though most probably I won’t be there in person, here’s what I expect to hear from Edward Screven, Oracle, on the State of the Dolphin keynote, coming MySQL Conference & Expo. I’m under the assumption that no shocking news are delivered. That is, that for the near future, it’s business as usual for MySQL. Last [...]
This is just something that I realized this morning. There were some talks about how the “MySQL Users Conference & Expo” was renamed to “MySQL Conference & Expo” – thereby omitting the “Users” part. The talk was something like “So where are we, the users, in this story?” But what I’ve just recalled was a [...]
Busy day again: today the Percona conference joined the regular schedule, so more stuff to attend! What did I attend? Maria In Depth, Monty Widenius, MontyProgram AB (Percona conference): Monty was discussing Maria performance-wise as opposed to his later session which was feature-wise). He did delve just a little bit into the decision making issues [...]
Tuesday: day of the announcements and of numerous sessions. Busy day! The day started with the State of the Dolphin by Karen Padir (Sun Microsystems). She threw in some announcement, among which were MySQL 5.4, MySQL Cluster 7.0, better release cycles (matching the Enterprise), better code import from the community. Anyway, there is already a [...]
OK. That was a surprise! In retrospective, there have been some hints along the way. But I don’t get hints. I’m the kind of man who, when watching a complicated movie, needs his girlfriend to explain him what goes on. I was utterly astonished and honored to find my name on the screen, and have [...]
[See http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2009MondayNotes] Monday: day of tutorials. Plenty of interesting tutorials on the Conference itself, plus a session with Mark Callaghan – it was hard to choose. I settled for two tutorials, which turned out to be three. Practical MySQL Plugin Development: As a C/C++/Java developer, I am very interested in the plugin API. I have [...]