Conferences

Digital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.06]

MySQL Belgian Days 2024 and FOSDEM 2024 In this past week, I’ve been able not just to read or watch digital content online but to meet people in person. In Brussels, first at the MySQL Belgian Days 2024 event, followed by FOSDEM 2024 .

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MySQL conference schedule

I am one of the crazy individuals(*) that will be speaking at both the regular O’Reilly MySQL Conference and the IOUG Collaborate conference both being held in the second week of April.

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MySQL South America tour

DISCLAIMER: This post contains no technical MySQL content however it is good news for the MySQL Community. MySQL content will be included for the first time with the LAOUC (Latin American Oracle Usergroups Council) Oracle tour that is being organized in conjunction with OTN (Oracle Technology Network).

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Upcoming MySQL Conferences

Unlike previous years when the number of conferences with MySQL content diminishes after the O’Reilly MySQL and OSCON conferences (Open SQL Camp excluded), this year has a lot on offer.

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One advantage of Oracle/Sun/MySQL

This weeks’ announcement Oracle to by Sun was a major talking point at the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo . While it is too early to even speculate what the future holds with the official MySQL product, for myself a speaker on MySQL topics, Oracle Open World is now a target market.

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A change in the MySQL Binary distributions

Yesterday was the surprise announcement of MySQL 5.4 at the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo. It was unfortunate that the supporting information was not that forthcoming on the MySQL website. I tried for several hours to try and download, but no mirrors were initially available.

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Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Presentation

On Tuesday at the MySQL Camp 2009 in Santa Clara I presented Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This presentation assumed you know nothing about AWS, and have no account.

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Classic quotes – Community One East

The CommunityOne East 2009 conference has finished up. There were a few classic statements made by the speakers during the day. They included. “We have a community reception, that’s a long way to say free beer.

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Your Code, Your Community, Your Cloud… Project Kenai

Following the opening keynote announcement about Kenai I ventured into a talk on Project Kenai . With today’s economy, the drive is towards efficiency is certainly a key consideration, it was quoted that dedicated hosting servers only run at 30% efficiency.

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Everybody is talking About Clouds

From the opening keynote at CommunityOne East we begin with Everybody is talking About Clouds. It’s difficult to get a good definition, the opening cloud definition today was Software/Platform/Storage/Database/Infrastructure as a service.

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CommunityOne East – An open developer conference

With an opening video from thru-you.com – an individual taking random you-tube video and producing video mashup’s, the CommunityOne East conference in New York, NY beings. The opening introduction was by Chief Sustainability Officer Dave Douglas.

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