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Sun, 12 Nov 2006
[20:11] MySQL Camp
I volunteered to help host the MySQL Camp at Google this weekend and ended up having a really good time! Admittedly, due to unforseen circumstances (someone's arm fell off), I ended up playing a bit more of a hosting role than I originally intended and thus wasn't able to partake of all of the discussions I'd hoped to. However, I still managed to ingest some information via osmosis on Saturday and actually sat in on a couple of talks on Sunday when things were a bit quieter. Since I'm no DBA and certainly not a MySQL specialist I'll leave it up to you to go find out what actually happened if you're interested (the MySQL Planet would probably be a good start). From my laymans point of view it certainly looked like good things were happening!
I managed to make a couple of faux pas (apparently that is both singular and plural); firstly asking Jay Pipes what he thought of the book Pro MySQL which I was eyeing off as a sysadmin firefighting resource, only to find that he's actually the author of said book (which ended up scoring me a free copy - thanks Jay!) but I think my crowning glory was asking David Axmark (one of the MySQL co-founders) who he was and what had brought him to the MySQL camp.
So, thanks to all the MySQL guys for being so cool (special props to yet another ex-pat Aussie, Ronald Bradford) and to my Google-buddies Leslie and Mikal for helping make the weekend go so smoothly!
[Posted at: 12/11/2006 20:11]
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