MySQL | 2008-07-16
join-Fu: Tonight in ClevelandIn the Cleveland area? Tonight, 6pm, I’ll be giving my “Join-Fu: The Art of SQL” talk at the inaugural MySQL meetup in Independence, Ohio. Come join me! Here is the […]
MySQL | 2008-06-20
Removing Barriers to the Community – MySQL Moves to BazaarI’ve been at MySQL for two and a half years now as a community manager. Through this time, I’ve learned a number of valuable lessons about what it means to […]
MySQL | 2008-06-19
Slides for Join-Fu: The Art of SQL (I and II)Below are the Open Office Impress and PDF versions of the slide decks I will be giving tonight. Utah PLUG readers, these are those intermediate slides that have taken so […]
MySQL | 2008-06-19
Speaking at OINK-PUG in Cincinnati Tonight on Join-Fu: The Art of SQLJust a quick note to let folks know I’ll be doing a presentation on Join-Fu: The Art of SQL, tonight in Cincinnati. Thanks to Elizabeth Naramore for inviting me down […]
MySQL | 2008-05-31
Couple simple feature changes to MySQL ForgeToday, I knocked out a couple feature requests for MySQL Forge that Giuseppe had submitted. Namely, the ability to add an avatar image to a person’s profile, and also restoring […]
MySQL | 2008-05-31
Take the MySQL Magazine/Community Survey – PHPers Unite!For all you dolphins and elePHPants out there, please take a look at MySQL Magazine‘s community survey, graciously produced by Mark Schoonover and B. Keith Murphy. Why bother taking the […]
MySQL | 2008-05-14
Speaking at PLUG in Provo, Utah, TonightIn the Columbus, Ohio, airport right now waiting to board my plane to Salt Lake City. Tonight, I will be speaking on Join-Fu at the PLUG (Provo Linux User Group). […]
MySQL | 2008-05-02
Community-Driven Worklog? Anyone Interested?Peter has suggested this before, and I think it’s a great idea. Basically, Peter’s gripe is that currently, there is no way for community members to propose new worklog tasks […]
MySQL | 2008-05-02
A MySQL Bug Triage… Can we make it happen?I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, sparked by Ronald Bradford‘s brainstorming about a global hackathon, and I think it’s something that is completely doable, and would have […]
MySQL | 2008-05-02
Join-fu: The Art of SQL TuningLast night, I was fortunate enough to give a presentation called “Join-fu: The Art of SQL Tuning” at the local Columbus PHP Meetup group. There were about 14 people there, […]