It's already a month old, but I just stumbled over this ITtoolbox
Interview with
Jonathan Cheyer (Open Source Community Manager) and Murat Demiroglu (Senior Product Manager) from
Solid Information Technology, in which
Dru Lavigne talks with them about Solid (the company) and the
solidDB for MySQL storage engine, which is currently in beta testing. I still remember Solid from my times at SUSE Linux, where it used to be a part of the Linux distribution along with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Adabas D and several other DBs...
While the
MySQL Server source trees are maintained using the
BitKeeper revision control system,
several other MySQL projects (Connectors, GUI-Tools and the Manual) use
Subversion instead.
To make it easier for external developers in getting familiar with the code base of the respective project, we now installed the FishEye SVN repository browser, which provides a very nice interface to the hosted repositories and boasts an impressive number of additional features like searching, diffing and RSS feeds.
This will hopefully encourage more developers to participate and contribute to these projects. FishEye will also make it more convenient for our own developers to work with their SVN repositories and should soon become a valuable tool for us.
On September 18th-21st, the second
EuroOSCON will take place in Brussels, Belgium. I probably won't make it to this year's conference, but I really enjoyed the event in Amsterdam last year.
The session grid contains a number of talks related to MySQL:
In addition to these sessions which are directly related to MySQL, here is a selection of talks that most likely cover it as well:
All in all, the conference program looks very promising. I wish I could be there...
Yesterday I sent out the invitations for our third
MySQL User Group Meeting in Hamburg, which will take place on Monday, 4th of September (which is the
United MySQL Meetup Day). As usual, we will meet at 19:00 in the Chinese Restaurant "
Ni Hao" - the food is excellent and we can use a separate room with a video projector there. If you happen to live around Hamburg, Germany and would like to join, please
RSVP and join our
mailing list!
Currently I am still pondering on the topic of the presentation - I suggested to invite Paul McCullagh to talk about PrimeBase XT, his transactional pluggable storage engine for MySQL. Would you think this is a suitable topic for a user group meeting? Let me know.
Speaking of MySQL User Groups: have you considered establishing one in your area yet? It's actually a lot of fun and MySQL AB will sponsor the meetup.com fees. In particular, I would like to encourage our MySQL Users in India to take initiative - there are more than 300 people interested in meeting other MySQL people in the major Indian cities like Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and others. Step up and organize a meeting! We have collected some suggestions and hints on how to get you going on the MySQL Forge Wiki. Once you are up and running, make sure to add yourself to the growing list of MySQL User Groups!
In addition to our main
MySQL Users Conference that took place in April, there will also be two small MySQL Conferences in Europe later this year. There will be presentations about our products and roadmaps as well as sessions about best practices and first-hand customer experiences. You will also get a chance to meet and talk with many MySQLers and share your thoughts and experiences. The conferences will take place in
London, UK (Tuesday, October 17th) and in
Munich, Germany (Thursday, October 19th). The conference program looks very interesting and there is an early bird discount, if you register before August 31st. So don't hesitate to register soon!
