Posted on 27/4/2006, 12:24 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
… you’ll never have to show up again.
Overheard Arjen telling us this when the MySQL signed 10th anniversary t-shirt was going for $650. At $775, we had to go visit Kaj, and he decided that if its above $1,000, the Community Budget will shell out $800 in addition.
Jeremy Cole will do 10% of the total! Sheeri is now giving $900. She’s getting married, and she figured she doesn’t need flowers for the wedding!
But the ultimate winner, Ronald Bradford bid $1,000. Sheeri paid $900. Jeremy gets to pay 10%. Ronald got the t-shirt… They both get an entry to SHOW CONTRIBUTORS in MySQL 5.1.
All in all, the EFF should be one happy camper from all this :-)
Posted on 26/4/2006, 11:50 am, by Colin Charles, under
General,
MySQL.
I heard Cory Doctorow about a week ago (yes, we have cool international speakers here in Melbourne all the time!), and if there was only one thing you’re really meant to take away from his talk, I think I found the gem.
Cory signs a book
We’re usually told content is king. He says thats a myth. Have you seen the six trillion dollar industry, that is telecommunications? (okay, I don’t know if that stat is remotely correct…) So the content is king idea is bollocks. What is really king is community and inter-personal communication. Getting people to talk about it. Humans are terribly social beings, so yeah, go community.
“Trying to kill MySQL by acquiring open source is like trying to kill
a dolphin by drinking the ocean.” — Marten Mickos
And yes, that quote ties in well with the Oracle Bought InnoDB Without a Clue article… MySQL has a great community. And of late, we’re getting a lot more great community contributed content. I do think content is important, but the community is too. And being around over 1,500 MySQL users, all I can say is that there’s great community here. From financial analysts, to DBAs, to students, to storage engine creators. This is one damned good community!
Posted on 24/4/2006, 4:37 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
If you’re at the MySQL Users Conference 2006, we’d love if you took notes and shared it with everyone… There are some cool tools like Gobby or SubEthaEdit that some folk might enjoy, since there’s a WiFi network available.
We’ve got a UC2006 Category on the wiki that you might find handy. Go ahead, create a wiki account, and start writing some useful content :-)
The name of the wine seems appropriate to MySQL and writing
If you wanna chat (for collaborative writing purposes and not for skipping out on your session!) there’s #mysql-uc on the famous freenode IRC network.
Posted on 24/4/2006, 4:16 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
So the last few days have been randomly fun. I’ve been to Fry’s several times to grab random bits and bobs. Things I don’t need, but now have. Hung out with Mikal and Stewart quite a bit, which is always fun. Had lots to drink, and have gotten some work done!
All that aside, today was reserved mostly for our CEO’s house party. It was highly fun, there was drink, great food, and even song!
Stewart by the bar
There was Foster’s beer! Haha. Go Australian export beer. And Morgan was caught having some. I got to meet so many MySQLers its going to be hard to remember them all. I’m sure by the time the UC is over, all will be well.
Kaj, my boss. I like this “portrait” of him quite well
Anyways, a picture tells a thousand words, so view the MySQL Staff Party 2006 photoset.
Posted on 4/4/2006, 4:38 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
Ruby on Rails is hot technology. Its got the essence of Web 2.0 written all over it, right?
Seeing that it supports MySQL out of the box, we like it. We of course want to enhance our support of the Ruby on Rails team, and make sure the RoR users have a rocking time.
As a consequence of this, I’ve been playing with RoR, and will definitely write up more thoughts here at some stage. This is just a quick note to mention that I’d be going to the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, from April 22-23 2006. Anyone else plan on being there?
Posted on 3/4/2006, 1:27 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
No, we didn’t forget about Make MySQL 5.1 Rock contest. We were just migrating our bugs database, and going through a little teething problems everytime a Monday hit! (yes, I’ve not been taking them for myself in the last two weeks!) The good news is that, you get an additional fortnight to win yourself an iPod Nano.
This week’s winner is none other than Mike Kruckenberg. He’s submitted a bunch of bug reports, in relation to MySQL Cluster (another hot topic these days), and one that caught my eye was a critical server crash (mysql#18603). He also blogs about his day spent with MySQL 5.1, which is a fun read.
If that’s not enough, Mike is also an invited member of the highly esteemed MySQL Guilds, and he’s co-written an excellent book: Pro MySQL. If you haven’t already read it, go buy it already.
Thanks for making MySQL 5.1 rock, you deserve the iPod Nano!
