Both Giuseppe and Kaj have blogs in languages that I don’t understand. In fact, even Planet MySQL has feeds for German, Spanish and French blogs.
Want to keep up with non-English based blogs? Happen to use Google Reader? Then use their nifty “Translate into my language” feature.
I can now read Giuseppe’s latest Italian blog. Current content is about MySQL 5.1 for the impatient – a feature overview of what’s new and cool.
There has been a lot of hoopla with regards to the GA release of MySQL 5.1. I’ve been using it on and off for quite a number of things, and during all my demonstrations, I make extensive use of it.
My advice?
The 5.1.31 tree is already quite busy. It can only be even better, with more extensive testing. And if history shows anything, people tend to only start using things when they’re GA (not even RC). A point of note: MySQL 5.1 release schedule – please read it.
Busy next few days: Sun Systems Tour in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 5, then MyGOSSCON 2008 on November 6.
For the Sun event, there’s a corporate slide deck – MySQL from Sun: The Platform for the Web Economy. For the MyGOSSCON event I’ll be speaking about MySQL Best Practices.
If you’re in Jakarta and free on November 5, don’t hesitate to say hi. Similar invite for MyGOSSCON, though I don’t actually know if its open to all.
I think Giuseppe (the man with too many blogs!) was a little too optimistic in his last post… the MySQL Conference Call for Participation has received an amazing amount of proposals, but not enough by our standards.
I personally believe there should be a 1:3 accepted-rejected ratio. Currently, its not there yet. Why do I like such high ratios? It means that there are actually so many good talks, and we (the voting committee) pick the best of the best, to give attendees the most mileage for their time and money. Or am I too harsh?
Anyway, the word on the street is that we will extend the Call for Participation, mostly because it is the right thing to do, and lots of people expect it. Expect an official announcement to go out soon about this. But remember, you’d be loved more if you submitted before midnight (PDT) on October 22.
Within the APAC region? Planning to attend foss.my (November 8-9 2008)? Why not stay a little longer, for the MySQL for Developers training course – 5 days, from 10-14 November 2008, conducted by my good friends at hSenid (MySQL partners in Malaysia). To register, or find out more, drop Ruchith a quick email at ruchith[at]hsenid[dot]com.
This is a picture with a lot of impact. This was from Seedcamp. The question asked was “What tools will you use?”.
MÃ¥rten pointed this out to us at the opening speeches at the Sun Database Group Developer’s Meeting. Its interesting to see what technologies are used. MySQL is by far, the most popular database server that all startups seem to use (though to be fair, I see CouchDB and PostgreSQL there too). PHP is about the most popular language (followed closely by Java, then Ruby). Its amazing to see what kind of technologies people are using to build the companies of tomorrow.
Find out more about it, at the Zeitgeist redux on the seedcamp blog.
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