Ok so this is not about MySQL… but as many MySQL people are from one country but living in another, there’s a common theme with certain experiences having to do with this “displacement”… in case you didn’t know, I am from The Netherlands, but live in Queensland, Australia. In my family we have always been [...]
Here: Request for Discussion – unmoderated group comp.databases.mysql Do add your thoughts on this… I know that it hasn’t been pursued in the past because of the MySQL mailing list and the many other resources. But yet, if there’s a demand and some people prefer a news group to a list or forum, why not? [...]
The L, M and P of LAMP have jointly spoken: Linus Torvalds (Linux), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), Monty Widenius (MySQL). This is about software patents, and that they are a really bad idea. Their statement can be found at http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/app0411.html (the No Software Patents web site contains lots of excellent info) I personally feel very strongly [...]
Nearly 60 people…AFAIK that’s the biggest ever turnout for a first meeting (do let me know if you know otherwise!) Well, Georg Richter organised it, he generally gets things going really well I took some pics.
Well, ComCon is finished. Judging from feedback and comments heard, it went great. Congrats to Frank Stepan and S&S Verlag for putting it all together, and Georg and Zak for great organisational efforts! I already posted some pics earlier, but here is the complete bunch, organised and with captions.
http://www.bitbike.com/users/ahlentz/gallery/album28
The program committee for the MySQL User conf 2005 is still wading through all the submissions for talks and tutorials. We’ll be deciding on the tutorials first. We will have to reject a lot of very good talks, purely for lack of space in our schedule. But that’s a good thing, really. I means that [...]
Hmm, I’ve been in Frankfurt now a day and a bit, and I’m even awake at the right times. Pretty good! Most interesting quote from the flight: Flight attendant (after pouring a cup of coffee for someone sitting next to me): “Yes it’s coffee.” The combined PHP and MySQL conference here rocks… interesting people with [...]
Well, I’m packing for my next trip… first MySQL ComCon Europe 2004 (http://www.mysqlcomconeurope.com/), then stay a few days at my friend Georg Richter’s place in Stuttgart, and then on to Munich for an internal company training meeting. Flying StarAlliance this time, see how it matches up against OneWorld (Qantas, etc). The first bit looks good, [...]
Well, we got it together… had a first meeting yesterday of MySQL users in town. http://mysql.meetup.com/84/ This time it was at a cafe… mostly discussing ideas for future meetings. One suggestion was to start earlier (than 7pm) because people don’t have time to drive home anyway. A local company will probably be able to provide [...]