One the very few things that I need Windows for now is JavaME development. The Netbeans mobility pack runs under Linux but unfortunately all the manufacturers’ emulators require Windows. So now that I have sold my Windows laptop I needed some other way of running Windows. I considered using bootcamp on my MacBook or even repartitioning my linux box to dual boot Windows but I am now using some VM software called VirtualBox. I actually […]
Well, it is the last day of the MySQL Users Conference. It’s been really interesting with lots of great sessions and keynotes. Today was a bit shorter and I think the programme was the weakest as far as sessions went but here are the ones I attended. Rasmus gave a keynote today with the rather strange title “PHP on Hormones“. He showed us an example of “PHP v1.0” and gave four reasons why people contribute […]
It was the third day of the MySQL Users Conference and it was just as packed with good stuff as the days before. Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation gave a very thoughtful and interesting keynote entitled “Freedom Businesses Protect Privacy”. He talked about how the type of information stored has changed over the centuries and how the most powerful […]
Today was the first day of the main conference and at breakfast I met Daniel Bernholc from TradeDoubler‘s Stockholm office. It was interesting to hear about the TradeDoubler architecture. They do 25,000 RPS using only about 8 Sun Opteron web servers. All their application code is written in Java and they use a custom written Apache module for delivery. Guy Kawasaki gave a very entertaining keynote called “The Art of Innovation” and Brian Stevens from […]
Today was tutorial day at the MySQL Users Conference. I got there early to register and get some breakfast before the first session. The tutorial day is different from the rest of the conference in that there are only two sessions, each of three hours. The length of these sessions means the speakers can go into more detail than in a normal 45 minute session. In the morning session I attended a session given by […]
I have arrived in Silicon Valley where I will be spending the next week at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007. I’m pretty excited about it. It turns out California is quite a long way from London. After a ten hour flight I caught the big double-decker Caltrain train south along the Bay to Mountain View where I transferred to the Valley Transportation Authority Light Rail. I was soon rolling past the offices of Yahoo, […]