Lots of database talk at Sun Tech Days
I didn’t get to attend many sessions at the Tech Days, as I was mainly meeting with people, or at the PostgreSQL on Solaris booth (figures someone from MySQL should’ve been there too). I had plenty of interesting conversations with Tom Daly; we met by chance since I had a blue MySQL shirt and he figured he’d be cheeky and offer me a PostgreSQL one.
I was going to take a photo with him today, but he called me from the airport last night to say he had to go back. Oh well.
Laurie Wong, and me
Instead, you get a photo of Laurie and me (MySQL cap, PostgreSQL on Solaris t-shirt). I’ll blog later about the sessions that I did attend – I wish I could’ve done so earlier but staying at the Sheraton in Darling Harbour, meant that there was no in-room Internet access. Wireless was available in the lobby or business center, but on the first floor where I was staying, your only options were dialup. In 2008.
The Tech Days is an interesting event. At MySQL, we’d have called this a “structured MySQL Camp”. Or maybe the Japan User Conference. Either way, it was interesting, and I learned a lot about OpenSolaris, Containers, DTrace, NetBeans and Java. So much so, I’m looking into toying with Java again (something I promised myself, I wouldn’t do, in the new millennium).
From a database perspective? Talks on PostgreSQL and MySQL, another on JavaDB, an Oracle booth (giving away a Wii to lucky winners) in the expo hall. Truly, impressive.
Oh, and the Atlassian offices are right next to the Sheraton. Now, that would be a seriously cool place to get an office. I got to peek into the office from the outside, and truly impressed. I actually recognised the Aeron chairs during my walk, and only upon coming back later, realised it was Atlassian.
So, nothing’s changed in Sydney hotels in 4 years, then? Fabbo. I’ll bet you they don’t run the wireless in the lobby either, so if it’s busted they haven’t got a clue what to do (as I discovered at Rydges…)
Sigh. Its surprising that hotels here can’t provide Internet access, when about 2 years ago, I was in Cambodia, and there was wifi, with a fat pipe to the Internet, at pretty much every hotel