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Horay, one of my talks for the MySQL Conference 2008 has been accepted! So after one year off, it appears I’ll be going to Santa Clara again – for the first time under my own OpenQuery banner.
Deadly Sins Using MySQL & PHP is a fun interactive session about things one should not do
It’ll [...]

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Three things you need in a new house:

doorbell
fish & chips dinner on the floor
hammock
Fab – particularly since the current house couldn’t have the hammock (no covered area outside…) so I’ve had to do without for nearly a year. Shocking.

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Well, that’s the news today, it was announced while MySQL has its not-quite-annual full staffmeeting in Florida.
Lots of people have already blogged on this, and various IRC channels have been chatting…. definitely interesting news, it seems. I didn’t blog earlier because a) I don’t follow any news that closely, as it tends to just warps [...]

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I’m usually pretty good with these things – I get a CfP invite and I blog about it to let more people know. I completely forgot in this case, must’ve been the xmas season. Luckily the CfP is still open for a few more days, so you can still get in a proposal if you’re [...]

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Last week I put the updated schedule online, with training courses in February (Sydney) and March (Melbourne). Other cities/topics coming up also.
As before, Open Query training is organised in independent one-day modules, so you pick the topic(s) you want, when you want them. Judging from feedback from the initial days done last year, this format [...]

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