Posted on 19/2/2006, 9:25 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
In the last minute life of Colin, I managed to get a flight on Tuesday to head to Singapore for Mark Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu Asian Business Tour, pretty much in the nick of time. It was a complete rush from getting the tickets, to reaching the hotel, and getting to the Singapore Management University (arrived only five minutes past!). The LUGS meets are large – going by the numbers, it seemed larger than what we have at LUV in Melbourne, and definitely greater than the MYOSS meetups.
Mark is an excellent speaker, who told us about Ubuntu’s place in the market, and all the cool things Canonical is doing to extend its reach. Being on a tight schedule, he didn’t stick around for after-talk discussions, but quite a number of other folk did. Harish Pillay (RH’s CTA in Singapore) had a couple of boxes of Fedora Core 4 giveaways, which a lot were pleased to snap up!
So I stuck around to have some dinner, and realised something interesting. The Singapore Management University (SMU), one of the four largest and renowned universities in Singapore, teach second year Computer Science database students, MySQL instead of MS SQL, commencing the year 2006.
I thought that was absolutely great news. Even Monash, a university deeply rooted in telling students that open source is better to use, where gcc is preferred over Visual Studio, still use Oracle for all their database teaching. Does anyone know of any other university using MySQL in their database teaching? I’d like to know (either comment here, or drop me e-mail).
(written a few weeks ago, without the Publish button being hit, mainly because photos weren’t uploaded yet. They’re now at: photos tagged SLUG)
Posted on 4/2/2006, 2:05 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
As Kaj has mentioned, I’ll be at Linux Asia 2006, from the 8th till the 10th of February 2006. FUDCon Delhi 2006 is happening on the 9th, and I’ll be speaking on MySQL and Fedora: A Developer’s Overview. I think this fits well with the “developer, developer, developer!” theme thats going around these days…
David Axmark is also going to be around at the main conference, both at the Intellectual Property & Open Source panel, and giving us a conference keynote on Friday.
Plan on meeting a lot of people, have a few MySQL-related meetings and am generally excited to see Greg and the rest of the Fedora crew again (we saw each other this time last year for the first time in Boston for our very first FUDCon!).
So if you want to catch up, drop me a line!
Yet another Valentine’s Day spent abroad!
Posted on 7/1/2006, 9:32 am, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
Some quickies that have been sitting in my blog poster for a while…
- Quick Polls are an interesting bit of the MySQL site. Look at all the interesting polls, and see where the community come from!
- I was doing a search on “migrate from Postgresql to MySQL” on Google, and all I seemed to have found in general were sites that showed how to do it the other way around!
- mytop is great. RPM distributions have
/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock, but it is located at /tmp/mysqld.sock if it comes out of the tarball. Run it as mytop -S /tmp/mysqld.sock if you’ve installed it from the tarball.
- Seeing:
Starting MySQL * Couldn't find MySQL manager or server as an error? Suggest you look at /etc/my.cnf, under [mysql.server], comment out (#) the basedir=/var/lib and like magic, things should work again.
- Looking for Powered by MySQL logos? Look no further than the Official Logos.
- Dispelling the Myths is a great article addressing common misconceptions with MySQL – transactions, supports large installations, excellent support team, is open source and much more. Give it a read.
- Talked to Gafton about Conary’s new PostgreSQL package and skirted around the idea of using versioned data directories for MySQL; he said it was generally unnecessary as between upgrades MySQL doesn’t break tables. But it does seem like good practice…
Posted on 18/12/2005, 10:24 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
Arjen Lentz: King Kong and MySQL…:
Arjen mentions that Weta Digital in New Zealand uses MySQL. For further mention, these folk use Fedora Core for their OS. I have an appointment to talk to their press people sometime in mid-January to discuss their Fedora use; I guess now I’ll aim to find out more about both.
Oh, and Halo, that popular Xbox/Microsoft game, is to be a movie. Powered by Fedora and MySQL :)
