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MySQL Conference – Building a Vertical Search Engine in a Day
Moving into the user sessions on the first day at MySQL Conference 2007, I attended Building a Vertical Search Engine in a Day . Some of my notes for reference.
MySQL Conference – RedHat Keynote – One Laptop Per Child
Our third keynote at MySQL Conference 2007 was titled Building the Ultimate Database Container with RHEL, MySQL, and Virtualization by Michael Evans. The presentation was on Red Hat & One Laptop Per Child.
MySQL Conference – The next keynote with Guy Kawasaki
Without missing a beat at MySQL Conference 2007, we moved from Marten’s keynote to The Art of Innovation by Guy Kawasaki. Extremely fun and entertaining. His 10 points. 1. Make Meaning
MySQL Conference – PBXT Recognized
As I mentioned in MySQL Conference – Rewarding the Community , Paul McCullagh, the creator of the Community Transactional Storage Engine PBXT won the Community Code Contributor of the Year award.
MySQL Conference – Opening Keynote with Marton Mickos
It’s an early start this morning at 8:20am at MySQL Conference 2007 with CEO Mårten Mickos keynote talk Welcome and State of MySQL AB. Here are some of the key points that impressed on me.
MySQL Conference – Rewarding the Community
At MySQL Conference 2007, CEO Mårten Mickos in his opening keynote Welcome and State of MySQL AB rewarded the community. Those that contributed to “The best database in the world”.
MySQL 6.0
If you were quick you may have noticed at the MySQL Conference 2007 keynote Welcome and State of MySQL AB talk this morning, Robin Schumacher in his quick demo of MySQL Monitoring & Advisory Service showed the MySQL Network Enterprise Dashboard, you would have noticed the MySQL Version 6.
Opening Keynote at MySQL Conf
It’s an early start this morning at 8:20am at MySQL Conference 2007 with CEO Mårten Mickos keynote talk Welcome and State of MySQL AB. His spirit is evident with his opening slide “The Participatory & Disruptive spirit of the Dolphin.
MYSQL Conference – Scaling and High Availablilty Architectures Tutorial
My first tutorial today at MySQL Conference 2007 is Scaling and High Availablilty Architectures by Jeremy Cole and Eric Bergen of Proven Scaling. Basic Tenets While not discussed, the premise is to Cache Everything.
MySQL Conference & Expo
The MySQL Conference has started. It will be a long week, still yet to prepare my own presentation for tomorrow. Old friendships already renewed, plenty of faces to names already, and we have yet to hit the first session.
SHOW PROFILE
I’ve been playing more with the SHOW PROFILE command available as part of MySQL Community 5.0.37. Thanks to the author Jeremy Cole. This command can provide some interesting insight into the workings of MySQL.
Google’s worse nightmare
Today while waiting at the airport, I took a look at the news stand, and right there on the cover of Fast Company were two words Google, and Wikipedia. Given Wikipedia is a poster boy of MySQL it was an immediate purchase just to see what was being said.
Get behind a new exciting site
As I write this blog I have over 90 draft blog posts. That’s 9-0. Why do I have so many posts? The main reason is I want to say something, and I’ve either not completed it, or researched it sufficiently to consider the entry complete.
Google Maps for Personal Use
Just as I talked yesterday about Google Maps for Traffic Updates , today Google Maps released a new feature today called My Maps. I’ve just started using it, my first map is incomplete but you can see the workings at Travel Locations