Yes we’re still swimming in the nearly 250 submissions for the MySQL Users Conference. You will have seen some people scribble about already being accepted, and of course the conference site is now live for registration with all 10 tutorials listed and a number of speakers. If you made a submission, and haven’t heard anything [...]
So, Qcodo. I’ve seen a tiny bit of “wow” and a lot of “hadn’t heard of that“. It’s clearly not on the buzz radar… maybe because it’s for PHP 5 only, and many people haven’t yet taken the step to run it (please do, it’s good stuff!) Anyway, I’ve been told about Qcodo is that [...]
The virtual doors have just opened — sign up before early registration ends on March 6 and save up to $200. 2006 MySQL Users Conference is April 24-27, 2006 in Santa Clara, California. Lots of detail there and via Planet MySQL.
At the upcoming MySQL Users Conference, we will have a lot more exhibition space compared to last year. We also want to show off the extensive community activity with MySQL, so this is a neat opportunity. We are looking for open source projects that use or extend MySQL, who want to present their project in [...]
Getting back to the ranking calculation quiz I posted last week…. I was a bit surprised about all the complicated constructs with counters, stored procedures and even views. The solution actually needs to work on a 4.1 server so I should perhaps have banned using stored procs, but I didn’t expect them to be needed [...]
Someone spotted this Java/MySQL job in Austin Texas, specifically asking for MySQL 5 expertise: http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=37480170&WT.mc_n=MKT000125 In this position you will be assisting a mid size company with their open source database system. Your main responsibility will be developing a database tier in Hibernate and MySQL. Additional responsibilities include assisting with the conversion and update from [...]
So what’s the connection between the newly released King Kong movie by Peter Jackson, and MySQL? The answer is Weta Digital, who did the special effects of this movie, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Narnia, I Robot, and others. Weta uses MySQL to track its “assets” (hundreds of millions of files) across thousands of [...]
About five years ago a Polish Australian, Patryk Zadarnowski, set up a Linux Jewellery store online. As speaker at AUUG conferences, I was lucky enough to receive a little black nickle tux, and a “tux inside” keyring… excellent. Patryk started it all as a weekend project (together with an artist friend) but he soon found [...]
Here’s some homework for you: come up with an efficient way to calculate ranking. Say you have a user table and each user has a score. Now, for any one specified user, you want to find out their overall ranking. And, in the most efficient way! There are, of course, a variety of rather crude [...]
Tonight is the night, many members of the local MySQL User Group here will be taking their first MySQL Certification exam. I arranged for a special deal with our certification manager Carsten Pedersen, if we do the test on paper (rather than at a VUE testing center) it can be done cheaper. So I now [...]