Latest Developer Updates from MySQL AB

MySQL Conference & Expo Speakers Announced and Registration Now Open!

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Sun Microsystems and O'Reilly Media have now opened registration and unveiled the program for the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo, April 20-23, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The world's largest open source database event unites over 2,000 MySQL enthusiasts to harness the power of MySQL and celebrate the huge MySQL community.

To register and learn about early registration discounts, please visit www.mysqlconf.com.

Interview with Lars Heill, Release Engineering Manager

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Born in Northern Norway 41 years ago and Lars has lived in Trondheim for the last 22 years. He is a Physicist by education, has a master degree on semiconductor heterojunctures and has earned a PhD on high temperature superconductors. He worked briefly on nuclear power fuel optimization and petroleum related rock mechanics before joining Clustra in the year 2000, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Clustra was a database software vendor that specialized in clustered, high-availability databases that were required by telecoms and service providers.

Interview with Stewart Smith, Drizzle/MySQL Cluster

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Stewart Smith, a former member of the MySQL Cluster team recently decided to move on and work as a programmer on the Drizzle project. We wanted to catch with Stewart on both MySQL Cluster on Windows and what's he up to now.

Interview with Masood Mortazavi, MySQL Engineering Manager at Sun

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Masood Mortazavi is an Engineering Manager at the Sun Database Group. After the acquisition of MySQL, and along with the rest of Sun's original database technology group, he joined the MySQL organization to form the larger Sun Database Group. In this interview, Masood talks with Lenz about the flexibility and diversity of Sun as a workplace, his life prior to joining Sun and his current assignment to improve the MySQL code contribution process.

Interview with Alexander "Salle" Keremidarski, 2008

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Alexander "Salle" Keremidarski works as the Manager of EMEA Support for MySQL and is one of MySQL's longest serving employees. This isn't Salle's first interview on the Devzone, but seeing as how it's been a couple of years, we thought we'd catch up with Salle and see how things are going.

Sun Releases MySQL 5.1 -- Boosts Performance & Simplifies Management of Large-Scale Database Applications

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the general availability of MySQL™ 5.1, a major new release of the world's most popular open source database. Designed to improve performance and simplify management of large-scale database applications, the production-ready MySQL 5.1 software is available for download now at dev.mysql.com/downloads.

Interview with Ignacio "Iggy" Galarza, Jr., developer at the MySQL Connectors team

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Ignacio "Iggy" Galarza, Jr. is a developer at the MySQL Connectors Team. Lenz talked with him about working for a distributed company, a team with the interesting acronym "WTF" and other nerdy things.

Using the Pluggable API for TeamDrive

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:59:59 +0000

TeamDrive Systems provides smart collaboration software, a scalable platform and Internet services, which enable users to build millions of micro-social networks and/or virtualize their own documents to share (sync) among their personal devices as well as among their friends. TeamDrive 2.0 is both software and a service. The smart client software is intuitive to use, watches folders in the file system and enables automatic synchronization, automatic versioning and automatic encryption, providing privacy and security for personal and corporate workspaces without any necessity of an own server and enhanced IT infrastructure.

Interview with Adam Donnison, web developer at MySQL.com

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Adam has been in IT now for more than a quarter of a century, variously as a programmer, systems analyst, database admin and consultant. The first job Adam had was writing software for cash registers in assembler, and back end software in C and COBOL on UNIX. Adam is active in a number of open source projects and is the admin of dotProject. He now works in the web team which is responsible for maintaining the mysql.com web sites.

Using MySQL 5.1 for Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Overview

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:59:59 +0000

Breadboard BI provides affordable business intelligence (BI), data integration, and general software application development consulting. We also offer a suite of customizable BI modules that form a modular and scalable enterprise solution. Our mission is to provide products and service that enable companies to reduce costs, improve sales, and satisfy regulatory requirements.