Indeed we are looking to extend the number of MySQL Support Engineers, in this region. Aye, plural. More than one person. And one would be focusing for MySQL Cluster. Particularly if you’re based in Australia or New Zealand and might be interested in this kind of gig, please drop me a line urgently! But if [...]
Jon Stokes writes about this on Arstechnica, looking at a forthcoming Virginia Law Review paper entitled “The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design,” in which two law professors investigate how the fashion industry manages to thrive despite rampant copying of clothing designs. While it’s not simply applicable to other areas (such as [...]
No, not for te Elton John concert – though that’s made finding accomodation very “interesting”, almost everything is booked out on the Wednesday… anyway, I’ll be in Wellington NZ all next week (3-8 December) to teach an in-house training course. If anyone from around Wellington would like to catch up during that time, please do [...]
I’ll be at LCA 2007 in Sydney in January… Stewart and Colin are coming also, and quite possibly Brian. We’re setting up a MySQL miniconf this time, and of course we would like to see some items from people who are not MySQL employees! See here: This is a call for participation in the MySQL [...]
Just received this note from from Yann Larrivée: PHP Québec is pleased to announce the 2007 PHP Québec conference. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on March 14-15-16th 2007. We are looking for the best speakers willing to share their experience and skills with professional PHP developers from eastern Canada and the United [...]
On Edd Dumbill’s behalf… Call for Participation — XTech 2007 (Paris, France. 15-18 May 2007) Proposals for presentations and tutorials are invited for XTech 2007, Europe’s premier web technologies conference. The deadline for submitting proposals is December 15th, 2006. Read the CFPs and submit proposals online. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Ubiquitous [...]
The International PHP Conference in Frankfurt is coming up again, 5-8 November. Running in parallel is the Open Source Database Conference (reg is free if you’re at the PHP conf). I’ll be doing a tutorial and a few sessions: Power Workshop: MySQL 5.1 in Depth MySQL Falcon Storage Engine An Introduction to MySQL Cluster: Architecture [...]