I’ve had some opportunity recently to spend a little quality time off line, and I spent some of that time working on a side project I’ve wanted to do for a while — continuous integration testing of nova database migrations. Now, the code isn’t perfect at the moment, but I think its an interesting direction…
Tag: mysql
MythBuntu 8.10 just made me sad
I figured it was time to give MythBuntu a try, so I set up a MythBuntu 8.10 instance in VirtualBox today. That was a mistake. I’m not 100% sure I understand how it happened, but MythBuntu somehow managed to delete my entire mythconverg MySQL database instance. Not pleased. I’ve restored it from last night’s backup,…
Managing MySQL the Slack Way: How Google Deploys New MySQL Servers
I’ll be presenting about Slack (the open sourced tool kit we use for deployment software configuration) at the MySQL user’s conference in Santa Clara in late April. The talk will focus on the interesting aspects of Slack as it relates to MySQL and should be fun. A DBA mate of mine is gonna present with…
MySQL User Camp 2006
I “sort of attended” the MySQL user’s camp on the weekend. More on that later. This blog post from the guy who wrote WordPress makes me think I should have made it to more of the sessions. Oh well.
My first sighting of the ImageMagick book in the wild
My ImageMagick book is for sale at the MySQL user’s conference trade show. There are only a few copies there, but it is nice to actually see it out there. I wonder if they’ll sell any copies?
VTA station for the Santa Clara Convention Center
I’m doing public transport research for MySQL user’s conference next week. Here is how to get from the VTA station at Old Ironsides to the Santa Clara Convention Center.