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Dear Technical Conference Organizer
I am a conference junkie. I love attending them, organizing them, speaking at them, planning to attend them, seeing my friends at conferences, making friends with the nice (but often stressed) people who run conferences and so on. I even like eating the (often bad) food - kvetching about it builds a sense of [...]
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Slides from eLiberatica 2007 online
For the curious, the slides for the eLiberatica 2007 presentations are now up at http://eliberatica.ro/2007/ - the slides include presentations from eZ CEO Aleksander Farstad, Brian Behlendorf, FSF Europe President Georg Greve, Ubuntist Kurt von Finck and MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius (and yours truly, but the slides are a bit weak - check out my [...]
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Hacking Business Models
This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.
Instead of developing software, we were working on developing a set of rough principles and rules for running a Free Software/Open Source business. We both have a good amount of experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and [...]
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Speaking at FrOSCon 2007
I just received word that my proposal (which was to present my Age of Literate Machines presentation) for FrOSCon has been accepted.
I'm pretty excited - the event should be fun and it will give me a good chance to see friends (including a good number of my German MySQL colleagues)
Tags: Age [...]
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A Blessing in Disguise
MySQL's latest advertising campaign (called "The 12 Days of Scaleout") is getting a bit of a kicking in the MySQL blog space.
I am sure that this is slightly uncomfortable for the MySQL team, but at the same time the team is lucky that people who care about MySQL still take the time to explain what [...]
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MySQL Sandalcamp Presentation
Unfortunately, I had to skip out on my presentation at this year's MySQL Conference.
Thankfully, my friend Mike Hillyer was able to pinch hit for me. I had planned to do a podcast of the session, but - as he is totally awesome - Mike even recorded the session.
Tags: conference, Media, Mike [...]
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Profiled (and then trolled) on Linux.com
At last month's Vancouver PHP Conference, local journalist Bruce Byfield gave me a quick interview about how I got involved in Free Software and Open Source. We chatted for a while about my time at MySQL, my bits of work in the PHP community and what I am currently up to. The interview turned into [...]
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Old Notebooks
Mandy and I were working together on some accounting for Foo Associates earlier today. We were scratching down notes in an old notebook when I ran across some old bits and pieces from my days at MySQL - random lists of tasks, flight schedules, doodlings and this little snippet of text under the hotel address [...]
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Speaking at the 2007 MySQL Conference
My MySQL Sandalcamp proposal made the cut for the upcoming MySQL Conference. I hope that I will see some of you down in Santa Clara in April.
Tags: conference, MySQL, Speaking, Uncategorized
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Random Thought: MySQL is the Perl of RDBMS
While chatting with a few SVN hackers at OSCON, it occured to me that MySQL is the Perl of RDBMS. Discuss among yourselves.
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