{"id":898,"date":"2008-07-28T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2008-07-28T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T20:18:17","slug":"raj-kissu-in-the-press-for-gsoc2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/28\/raj-kissu-in-the-press-for-gsoc2008","title":{"rendered":"Raj Kissu in the press for GSoC2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether an <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ditesh\/statuses\/870208101\">online comic<\/a>, or not, the New Straits Times is one of the three English dailies, that still cost some amount of money in Malaysia. Their Computimes pullout, now better known as Tech&amp;U, featured <a href=\"http:\/\/code.kissu.org\/\">Raj Kissu<\/a>, a Summer of Code 2008 participant for MySQL. While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/techNu\/Monday\/Spotlite\/20080727120942\/Article\/index_html\">article<\/a> itself, fails to mention MySQL, he describes what he&#8217;s working on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I\u2019m doing a project on binary large objects in database. Basically, it is aimed at allowing people to file or stream files online. The program is based on open source.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to Raj, kudos to Google, kudos to phpMyAdmin, and kudos to MySQL. 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He completed a Google Summer of Code 2008 project with MySQL, hacking on blob streaming for phpMyAdmin. In fact, his project was so good, he has commit access to the phpMyAdmin tree :-) Today, The Star had an article about him (and two\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":811,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/05\/some-highlights-from-the-summer-of-code","url_meta":{"origin":898,"position":1},"title":"Some highlights from the Summer of Code","date":"5\/5\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"As you all know, MySQL is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2008. Its the community bonding period now, and real work only starts on May 26 2008. 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Its target audience are users that are new to databases or users that are new to MySQL in general.What's really interesting about the MySQL User Guide is that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":434,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/18\/free-ride-to-mysql-camp","url_meta":{"origin":898,"position":4},"title":"Free ride to MySQL Camp","date":"18\/10\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't normally blog about events that I'm not going to be attending, but this seemed like too cool an offer to pass up. Proven Scaling will be offering one free ticket to MySQL Camp - thats free airfare and hotel, for the rather cool MySQL Camp un-conference. 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