AUUG just sent out the news that registration for the AUUG Annual Conference 2005 has been opened. The full list of tutorials and sessions is also online. Dates and location: October 17-21, 2005 — Carlton Crest Hotel, Sydney Australia MySQL related sessions: Tutorial: PHP and MySQL Best Practices (Luke Welling, Hitwise & Laura Thomson, RMIT) [...]
There’s a new quick poll on MySQL dev zone, we would like to learn which IDE or editor you use for developing MySQL-related applications. We decided to chuck editors in because some are really an IDE anyway (I know people who live in Emacs
A company in Belgium has a patent-pending system (“SMS2mail”) whereby you can text a word to a free short code and get back more information by email to the address of your choice. So where’s the invention, exactly? For further details see this article: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25732 Given the current fuss around Linus and the Linux trademark, [...]
What a great -important and necessary- initiative! From the site: OpenUsability.org brings Open Source Developers and Usability Experts together The idea behind is simple: There are many Usability Experts who want to contribute to software projects. And there are many developers who want to make their software more usable, and as a consequence, more successful.
Postal services take good care of our items… so we were happy to use their services to ship three boxes of MySQL 10th anniversary T-shirts from Germany to my place in Australia – to hand out at local user groups, conferences, and send to other worthy individuals in this part of the world. Anyway, here’s [...]
Last week I was teaching one of the MySQL training courses, this time in Melbourne. Even with experienced users it’s important to go over the basics, as there’s always some aspects that they haven’t come across in their work. Filling in those gaps is essential before you can focus on design, optimization and scaling. Anyway, [...]
http://www.mysql.com/company/jobs/product_engineer.html You reckon you’re up for this job? Go for it! From the ad: Product engineering (configuration management) at MySQL is about building and packaging our products, and regression testing, on a large variety of platforms. As a product engineer at MySQL you will also find yourself being in the center of all activities, with [...]
Did you know that… MySQL 5.0 is able to use multiple indexes for a single table? The simplest example of where this comes in useful is … WHERE a=10 OR b=20 This join type optimization is new in MySQL 5.0, and represents a significant change in behavior with regard to indexes, because the old rule [...]
Did you know… that MySQL has partnered with some giants in the industry? Earlier today saw the announcement of Dell offering MySQL Network. A few months ago a partnership with HP was announced: HP and MySQL deliver open source database solutions.
I’ve been to the Brisbane and Adelaide editions of this conference, and it’s fab! I’ll be putting in my talk proposals for Dunedin! linux.conf.au is the annual Australian Linux technical conference, and is one of the largest gatherings of users and developers of Free and Open Source Software in the Southern Hemisphere. It is an [...]
