When I was on the MySQL Documentation team one thing started to become apparent to me: the MySQL Reference Manual was exactly what it claimed to be: a document better suited to referencing than teaching new users. I make very good use of it because I know MySQL, I know what it can do, and […]
Wednesday night I attended a reception hosted by Sun and managed to win myself a Sun Fire X2100 M2 server!
Swag-wise, the conference was an improvement over last year, as judged by Laura Thomson’s T-Shirt index, with around a dozen shirts to be had.
Just a quick note that I have posted the video from my session at this year’s MySQL Conference at:
http://www.mikehillyer.com/video/HowToBeNormal.html
Speaker: Mike Zinner
Developed a design tool called DBDesigner4 as his own schema design tool, had 1.5 million downloads. Tool was built on Delphi, became outdated. Project brought him to the attention of MySQL AB, resulted in a job offer.
After signing on he began work on basic MySQL GUI tools such as MySQL Administrator, MySQL Query […]
I’ll be blogging and posting photos from the 2008 MySQL Conference.
My photos can be seen in a Flickr set at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhillyer/sets/72157604556435611/
Watch this space for session notes.
I’ll be speaking at OSCON 2008 in Portland, delivering my Normalization Session. More details as I get them.
I’ve had one session accepted at the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo (which is a good thing since I only submitted one session for nomination).
This year’s session is titled How to be Normal, a Guide for Developers. I decided to return to my old Normalization talk, but lean more towards the practical than the theoretical […]
I’ll be posting all my new MySQL related content here in an effort to create a single point for all my technical and non-personal content.
