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, […]
I’ve been pretty busy with my project for my MSc in Computer Science. It is a metronome/instrument tuner that runs on a mobile phone. All modern mobiles have Java so I didn’t think it was such a crazy idea when I was planning this. What I didn’t know was that if you want to use some advanced features of the J2ME Multimedia API then you are in a whole world of pain. Basically, the problem […]