Conference
Percona Live Conference Recommendations
While many attendees are repeat offenders, if 2013 is your first MySQL conference and you are relatively new with MySQL (say < 2 years experience), it can be daunting to determine which of the 8 or more concurrent sessions you should attend during the conference.
Read moreMySQL now has two user conferences (*)
PC World has written a post with this title(*) about the upcoming MySQL Connect conference and references the Percona Live conference and an official Percona comment. As this is not syndicated in Planet MySQL I encourage you to read the full article .
Read moreMySQL 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.
Read moreCommon MySQL Scalability Mistakes
This week I was one of the presenters at the first Surge Scalability Conference in Baltimore. An event that focused not just on one technology but on what essential tools, technologies and practices system architects need to know about for successfully scaling web applications.
Read moreMySQL 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).
Read moreSpeaking at Oracle Open World 2010
I will be one of 18 MySQL speakers at Oracle Open World 2010 at the first ever
Read moreStill room at Kaleidoscope for MySQL attendees
Today I received notice that next week’s Velocity conference is at maximum capacity. With just under 2 weeks before the start of ODTUG Kaleidoscope in Washington DC we still have room for late registrations.
Read moreFree MySQL Event in Washington DC
As the program chair for the recently announced MySQL Track at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference located in Washington DC we are also looking into an associated free community event for MySQL locals in addition to a dedicated track for 4 days.
Read moreThe MySQL community impacting the Oracle community
I’m happy to announce that the MySQL community has been given the opportunity to speak at the upcoming Oracle Developer Tools User Group (ODTUG) Kaleidoscope conference in Washington DC. We will be releasing more details this week of the MySQL presentations and topics and we are finalizing details of possible options to include the local MySQL community during the event.
Read moreThe Blue Pill or the Red Pill
At the recent FOSDEM 2010 event, I presented in my keynote Dolphins, now and beyond a option which I termed the “Blue Pill” or the “Red Pill”. The following slide produced noticed interest in a packed room, and subsequent conversation.
Read moreSpeaking at MySQL UC 2010
My talk on 10x performance improvements – A case study has just been approved for the <a href="2010 MySQL Conference . This will be my 5th straight year speaking at the MySQL conferences.
Read moreEurope conference options for MySQL Developers
For those in the US the annual MySQL UC is taking place again in April. For those in Europe we have dedicated room for MySQL and MySQL related products/variants/branches at FOSDEM 2010 being held in Brussels, Belgium on 6-7 Feb.
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