http://www.mikehillyer.com Gentlemen, Look and Behold! Fri, 02 May 2008 21:26:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/it-lives/ 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. http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/best-swag-ever/ 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  http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/presentation-now-online/ 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 Tool was built on Delphi, became outdated.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 ... http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/mysql-workbench-the-ultimate-database-design-tool-for-developers/ 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. http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/blogging-from-the-2008-mysql-conference/ I'll be speaking at OSCON 2008 in Portland, delivering my Normalization Session. More details as I get them. http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/speaking-at-oscon-2008/ A blog entry at Word To The Wise talks about a new exploit discovered in the IronPort A60 series: IronPort Open Relay Vulnerability Systems Affected IronPort A60 running software version 2.5.4-005. According to IronPort, later devices and software versions using the same filtering mechanisms are vulnerable. Overview In recent weeks, one or more rogue spammers ... http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/deliverability/another-advantage-of-feedback-loops/ 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 ... http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/speaking-at-the-2008-mysql-conference-expo/ 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. http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/moving-my-mysql-related-posting/ The Ferris Research blog has an entry on ISPs and whether spam blocking is at odds with the common carrier status that seems to protect them from certain liabilities: This debate is happening again. Thanks to the good work done by MAAWG and others, ISPs are being encouraged to set up ... http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/spam-filtering-and-common-carrier-status/