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Software Carpentry is running a 2-day software skills boot camp in Boston, June 24-25th 2013, for women in science, engineering, medicine, and related research areas. Registration is $20. Boot camps alternate short tutorials with hands-on practical exercises. You are taught … Continue reading
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I am not at Percona Live this week because I opted to stay home after a crazy year of travel (41 talks in 11 different countries on 3 continents in the past year). However, I realized today that Percona Live … Continue reading
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At this month’s Back Bay LISA, Matt Simmons (aka Standalone Sysadmin) set up Lightning Talks. There were 9 presentations, and the videos are up! The playlist is on YouTube but here is a list of all the videos, with the … Continue reading
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This morning I watched Tomas Ulin’s Keynote at Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo, delivered yesterday. I missed this live as I am not at Percona Live (I am on a conference hiatus from March through September for personal reasons). … Continue reading
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I grew up in the States. While growing up, I got interested in the country of Garistan. I was drawn to a country full hard-core passion for living a happy life. I studied the history and geography of Garistan, and … Continue reading
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Open Database Camp was just over a week ago, Mar 16-17th at Harvard University, co-located with Northeast LinuxFest. We had a great lineup of speakers, and we have processed all 11 videos in record time! We got new video cameras … Continue reading
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I have had a lot of folks wanting to know when talks would be during Open Database Camp, and we had enough space in the schedule that we did not need to vote on talks, so I present the Open … Continue reading
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Over at the OurSQL podcast, Gerry and I were inspired by the Percona blog post about MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 default variable values differences. We were going to do a show where we talked about that, but in researching that … Continue reading
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At Confoo last week, I tried out a new presentation, called “Different MySQL Forks for Different Folks”. The idea was to explain the differences among all the forks – Drizzle, MariaDB, Percona and of course Oracle’s MySQL. But I did … Continue reading
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Back in December in an IT strategy meeting, my boss came up with a great phrase – “keeping IT visibly relevant”. It sums up the long-standing problem most IT teams have in their companies – how can you make it … Continue reading