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Companies speaking at UC2008
The Conference Speakers of the 2008 MySQL Conference provides some common and interesting names of companies not common in MySQL circles such as eBay, Microsoft Corporation, HP, Symantec. I see speakers outside of MySQL from countries including USA, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Australia.
Read moreA day with Michael Zinner – Architect of MySQL Workbench
Following A day with Jan Kneschke – Architect of MySQL Proxy , today I’m with Michael Zinner in Vienna, Austria . Michael is Team Lead of the MySQL GUI tools team at MySQL.
Read moreSpeaking at OSCON
I’ve been accepted to speak at the upcoming 2008 OSCON Conference in Portland Oregon July 21-25 2008, where I’ll be speaking with Giuseppe Maxia on MySQL Proxy . I haven’t seen a schedule yet, so I’m interested if there are any other presenters on MySQL topics!
Read moreUpcoming 2008 MySQL Conference
It’s just three weeks now before the 2008 MySQL Conference . Good to see my mug shot on the front page (see screen shot below). I will still be presenting my session Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know , however as a departing MySQL Employee I’ve had to give up the chance to present the “MySQL for Oracle DBA’s Bootcamp” tutorial, content that I developed for MySQL specifically and have already presented three one day seminars in New York, San Francisco and Washington DC.
Read moreChoosing a future MySQL career path
In the past few months I’ve not had to look for a job, they look for me. If your a well qualified MySQL DBA there are many opportunities, I’ve had so many of these offers in the past 12 months I’ve lost count.
Read moreGoals, desires and pursuit of the ideal working environment
I’ve had a lot of feedback from my resignation at MySQL. A lot positive, a lot of shock, even some avid discussion on why, and trying for me to reconsider my decision.
Read moreMy passion for Open Source
I am a very strong proponent of Open Source (excluding my Macbook). Joining MySQL Inc was a wonderful achievement, being part of the team behind the most popular open source database.
Read morePursuing new ventures with MySQL
The acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems has caused a certain amount of news in 2008 from the Initial announcement at the MySQL ACM, to the completion in just 6 weeks.
Read moreA day with Jan Kneschke – Architect of MySQL Proxy
Recently I got to spend a day with [Jan Kneschke][1] at his home in [Kiel, Germany][2]. This was an excellent opportunity to interact directly with a fellow MySQL employee and resident expert in several fields.
Read moreToday’s interesting MySQL Error Message
You have to love error messages some times. Today in MySQL is was “ERROR 1289 (HY000): The ‘UNKNOWN’ feature is disabled;” What was even more interesting is the error message and indeed the error number changed across different versions.
Read moreNoise canceling headphones
Some 9 months ago I left my noise canceling headphones on a plane. Since then I’ve though I’d just self suffer for my carelessness, and I’d decided the next set I would buy would be Bose.
Read moreMySQL graphics and words in use
Not sure during my vacation which part of the creative brain has taken over, but I’ve become rather obsessed with marketing graphics and associated words being used across the MySQL and Sun MySQL websites, (See previous examples here and here ).
Read moreWhere is the Sun MySQL Reference Manual?
Yesterday I mentioned the new <a href=-“http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/?p=958">The official Sun-MySQL WebSite. It interested me with the navigation, graphics and content used to describe MySQL. Greg of One Free Voice in a comment raised a very valid question, he could not find the MySQL Reference Manual, see comments .
Read moreThe official Sun-MySQL WebSite
As already reported the deal is done (see Sun Press Release , Kaj – Ambassador to Sun comments ). I’ve had a look at the Official Sun-MySQL website. Here is a review of the interesting words and images on the new site.
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