Media

Last Updated: Sun May 4 18:52:48 MYT 2014

I attempt to keep track of media appearances and place them here.

2014

“새 마리아DB, 다양한 스토리지 엔진 지원한다”, 24 April 2014 - interview with Bloter.net about MariaDB 10 launch.

구글과 위키피디아가 선택한 ‘마리아DB’, 10 December 2013 - interview with Bloter.net about MariaDB.
The ex-MySQL gang is back together, pushing MariaDB as a neutral 'bridge', April 24^th 2013 - Just a small mention about getting the band back together. Quote: "So now we have Widenius and other ex-MySQLers such as Colin Charles back together with players such as MySQL co-founder David Axmark and former MySQL sales director Magnus Stenberg.".
EC website down: Incompetence, or more than meets the eye?, April 5^th 2013 - some comments on why websites go down under traffic.

MariaDBはたんなるMySQLのクローン製品ではない！, December 7^th 2012 - interview with DB Online in Japan about MariaDB and how it can survive even without MySQL.
Big data & NewSQL (local copy), November 20^th 2012 - interview with a journalist in Korea about NewSQL trends and how MariaDB & MySQL are poised to be in this space.
OurSQL #89: Seal of Approval, May 4^th 2012 - While not an interview, Gerry was in my talk at LinuxFest NorthWest and used the content from there to ensure that this podcast was made.
MySQL founder's latest MariaDB release takes "enterprise" features open-source (local copy), April 14^th 2012, ArsTechnica - We launched a new MariaDB 5.5 series, and I got a quote in as a developer.

SkySQL in the Korean market (local copy), December 4^th 2011 - Interviewed alongside Daniel Saito about SkySQL, MariaDB and the Korean market.
MariaDB: The New M in LAMP (video), November 2011 - Presented at T-DOSE, an opensource conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
A beginner's guide to MariaDB (video), May 2011 - Presented at OpenSQLCamp Sardinia 2011.
Astro Awani Gadget Nation on Location sharing apps (video), April 29^th 2011 - Interviewed with Adam Carruthers the show host about location sharing applications. This appeared on Astro Awani channel 501.
In 1 Malaysia email, fears of a privacy breach (local copy), April 22^nd 2011 - Interviewed in The malaysian Insider on the 1Malaysia email project
Experts doubtful of 1 Malaysia e-mail security (local copy) - April 20^th 2011 - a blurb in The Malaysian Insider about the 1Malaysia email program.
BFM TechTalk: Open Source Addict: Colin Charles (local copy (audio)), April 7^th 2011, BFM 89.9 radio - Interview on the radio station.
Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist & judge for Echelon 2011 on The Leaderonomics Show, April 2011 - an interview with Leaderonomics about entrepreneurship, as part of being a judge for Echelon 2011.

TechBeat - a regular guest through much of 2010 and parts of 2011, started life as The Digital Edge as a podcast for The Edge Malaysia, and graduated to it being called TechBeat. Now defunct.
The MariaDB Server -- What do you want from it? (intro + discussion) (video), October 2010 - presented at OpenSQLCamp Boston 2010
'Democratised web' helps Malaysian's life quality (local copy), July 15^th 2010 - a comment syndicated by the AFP's Romen Bose, about the use of open data.

Hiatus, as MySQL AB & Sun Microsystems had their own PR departments and all my energy was poured into MySQL.

Unfazed, IBM pumps Power chip program, June 9^th 2005, CNET News.com - So Apple ditched IBM's PowerPC for Intel. We just released a Fedora Core 4 Mac port. How's that for fun?
Highlights: Knowing the difference in PDA operating systems, March 3^rd 2005, Computimes - A bit about familar.org's handheld distribution and why Linux on your iPaq is cool
Red Hat tries again with Linux enthusiasts, January 13^th 2005, CNET News.com - A bit about how Red Hat is interacting with developers, CVS, FUDCon, and the Fedora PPC port as at the current state.

Fedora Status Report, December 2004, Red Hat Magazine - An interview with me, touching about what I've been up to.
New Fedora Core Big on Community, November 8^th 2004, Internetnews - Comments on why I thought Fedora Core 3 was our best release since.
Red Hat founder's new project helps fund open source development, November 1^st 2004, DesktopLinux.com - Here I have some comments on why boxed sets work. This includes the press release that is at the bottom, which made it to quite the few news sites.
PC.com: Cover Story: Free, Open and Powerful, June 2004, PC.com Magazine - Mainly an overview of OpenOffice.org, with a few comments from me.
Linux and affordable PCs - Gemilang offers more than you think, March 23^th 2004, InTech (The Star) - The Start Box - This was a press release that eventually became an article, about what's cool in Fedora Core 1 and what we'll be including with the PC Gemilang PCs.

Power Breakfast #43, December 26^th 2003, Cyberjaya.tv - OpenOffice.org and how it can do Malaysia some good. The online forum for questions & answers.
Can Linux kick butt?, December 21^st 2003, Singapore Straits Times - Why is Linux not as popular as Microsoft?
More local schools to get OpenOffice, December 19^th 2003, The Star - On the OOo in Education push in Malaysia.
Free software inside, October 12^th 2003, Singapore Straits Times - On "freeware" and open source stuff.
Lelong, lelong... OpenOffice CDs going cheap, August 15^th 2003, Star TechCentral - OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 CD's got sold...

Old folks pick up Open Source, December 31^st 2002, Star TechCentral - interview for OSS training for school teachers and NGOs.