{"id":734,"date":"2008-03-06T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T11:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/06\/lots-of-database-talk-at-sun-tech-days"},"modified":"2008-03-06T06:18:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T11:18:23","slug":"lots-of-database-talk-at-sun-tech-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/06\/lots-of-database-talk-at-sun-tech-days","title":{"rendered":"Lots of database talk at Sun Tech Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to attend many sessions at the Tech Days, as I was mainly meeting with people, or at the PostgreSQL on Solaris booth (figures someone from MySQL should&#8217;ve been there too). I had plenty of interesting conversations with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/tomdaly\/\">Tom Daly<\/a>; we met by chance since I had a blue MySQL shirt and he figured he&#8217;d be cheeky and offer me a PostgreSQL one.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to take a photo with him today, but he called me from the airport last night to say he had to go back. Oh well. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2313495628\/\" title=\"Laurie Wong, Colin Charles by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3113\/2313495628_d788ab9d16_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Laurie Wong, Colin Charles\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Laurie Wong, and me<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Instead, you get a photo of Laurie and me (MySQL cap, PostgreSQL on Solaris t-shirt). I&#8217;ll blog later about the sessions that I did attend &#8211; I wish I could&#8217;ve done so earlier but staying at the Sheraton in Darling Harbour, meant that there was <b>no in-room Internet<\/b> access. Wireless was available in the lobby or business center, but on the first floor where I was staying, your only options were dialup. In 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Tech Days is an interesting event. At MySQL, we&#8217;d have called this a &#8220;structured MySQL Camp&#8221;. Or maybe the Japan User Conference. Either way, it was interesting, and I learned a lot about OpenSolaris, Containers, DTrace, NetBeans and Java. So much so, I&#8217;m looking into toying with Java again (something I promised myself, I wouldn&#8217;t do, in the new millennium).<\/p>\n<p>From a database perspective? Talks on PostgreSQL and MySQL, another on JavaDB, an Oracle booth (giving away a Wii to lucky winners) in the expo hall. Truly, impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/\">Atlassian<\/a> offices are right next to the Sheraton. Now, that would be a seriously cool place to get an office. I got to peek into the office from the outside, and truly impressed. I actually recognised the Aeron chairs during my walk, and only upon coming back later, realised it was Atlassian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to attend many sessions at the Tech Days, as I was mainly meeting with people, or at the PostgreSQL on Solaris booth (figures someone from MySQL should&#8217;ve been there too). I had plenty of interesting conversations with Tom Daly; we met by chance since I had a blue MySQL shirt and he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-bQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}