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MySQL Conference: Radar interview, “mini-tutorials”

Mar 6, 2010 10:44am

A few notes about the MySQL Conference & Expo 2010. Check out the schedule. Its more packed than you can imagine. You’re going to want to be in many places at once, by the looks of it. O’Reilly Radar has an interview with Ronald Bradford: MySQL migration and risk management. You’ll get...

Marina crying foul over censorship?

Mar 5, 2010 4:10am

Marina Mahathir, daughter of former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir, is crying foul in The Column That Wasn’t. Apparently, she has a Musings column in the local daily, The Star, and her column will be amiss for a week, due to the sensitive nature of the article. A few...

Iceland: An experience

Mar 4, 2010 11:56am

We planned for a company meeting to be in Iceland, with just about a month’s notice. You can do that, when you’re a fairly small company. Having been back from London during the winter, where it was snowing in the New Year, I was not exactly jumping high to visit...

MySQL Ecosystem – complementary talks at the conference?

Mar 3, 2010 7:01am

Its times like this, I want to hear from the greater community – the ones that are reading say, Planet MySQL or Planet MariaDB. MySQL to me, and many others is an ecosystem. We’ve had for the longest time, complementary technology talks, like for memcached (which have been popular, filled rooms)....

Twitter needs filters

Feb 23, 2010 9:14pm

I don’t know if @ev, @biz or @dickc will read this, but Twitter clearly needs filters. Its not something an external client should do (TweetDeck does this very well, BTW), but the main stream should provide. The way I look at my Twitter feed, is like email. Twitter currently speaks IMAP,...

Recently in MariaDB #1

Feb 22, 2010 9:26pm

The aims of this kind of blog post is simple – I want to help keep the masses informed as to what’s happening with MariaDB, as a whole. There is a community growing, and MariaDB is a community project, not necessarily a Monty Program Ab baby (and we’re clear on...

Restaurants need to manage their online reputations

Feb 22, 2010 6:14am

Bloggers are an opinionated lot. They tend to speak the truth (most of the time – let’s ignore undisclosed advertorials). You have a bad experience at an establishment, you have a blog, you’re bound to pen down your thoughts. Its only natural. You’re trying to help the general public that...

MeeGo: Quick thoughts on the Moblin and Maemo marriage

Feb 15, 2010 4:06am

I’ve been excited with the Maemo platform for a few years now. I after all, had the Nokia N770, their first tablet that had Maemo on it. But as soon as they released the N800, things weren’t backward compatible, and due to frustration I gave up on the platform (the...

MySQL Conference Update: Grid is up, go promote and register!

Feb 9, 2010 10:24pm

This is a quick update on the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2010, happening April 12-15 2010 in Santa Clara. We’ve put up a preliminary schedule, and you can expect this to be fast moving/changing, as we confirm more talks. A tradeoff of this, is that you can now also see...

Laptop/netbook for a university student and a HP Mini 311 quick review

Feb 7, 2010 3:53am

I recently asked on Twitter: For a college/university student, would you get ‘em a laptop or a netbook? Need opinions ASAP. Thanks! The Twitterverse was quick to respond. Thank you all for responding! A little summary: @sniffit suggested that netbooks are underpowered, but might change with Linux being on them. @redsheep went for...