I had the pleasure of seeing Josh Holmes keynote CodeStock Saturday morning.  His presentation, “The Lost Art of Simplicity,” was very well done.  Very broad topic, but very applicable to likely everyone in the room.  Certainly I took away many good points.  In some ways, it’s a lot of points that we *know* at an [...]

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I’ve been in London most of the last week, and had a great time meeting up with people (DylanS and Sam from the Dojo project, Rajat from Yahoo, some locals putting on a minibarcamp, and others).  I’ve done some video and audio of some of these meetings and hope to put them up someplace in [...]

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Exciting news - I’ll be presenting an introduction to Grails at the upcoming Codestock conference in Knoxville this August!  The site doesn’t have full details yet, but I was just notified this morning that my submission was accepted.  I’d actually submitted 3 options - my SOLR presentation, a “Continuous Integration with PHP” topic, and an [...]

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This is the last in my MySQL conference series.  Brian Moon, author of Phorum and Sr Developer at Dealnews.com, sat down and gave a recap of his two presentations.  We have here nearly a full hour of his insights in to PHP/MySQL scalability, both with an app like Phorum and a more complex environment like [...]

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SilverStripe is a PHP5-based CMS from down under (New Zealand!).  I had a chance to meet with Sigurd Magnusson, one of the project’s founders, and discuss the project’s history, current status as an open source project (BSD-licensed), and where it’s heading.  Have a listen!

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I’m sitting in on the Blob Streaming with MySQL session.  The project is at http://blobstreaming.org.  Coincidentally,  my brother had put together a proof of concept for streaming blobs from MySQL a few months ago before either of us heard about this project.
Why to put blobs in a database?  The biggest pro seems to be for [...]

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I’m seeing a large cross section of age groups represented at the MySQL conference.  The typical late teens through mid twenties are here, as expected, but I’m seeing a high number of people who are clearly older than that - many likely mid 40s or higher.  It could just be that database work is typically [...]

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The KickFire people stayed too long in the room before OBM, so I think they’re having to cut short the presentation - there were some display problems too which took some time.  Given that, the presentation has been good, if a bit rushed so far.  OBM has been developed in France for the past 10 [...]

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Met with some interesting people last night, and I’ll be posting the contents on webdevradio.com later.  Met with JasperReports people today and obm.org people.  OBM looks pretty powerful.  Currently sitting in the ‘MySQL sandbox’ presentation.

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Listening to Joe Stump from Digg.com talk about SOA and MySQL and some PHP.  One key thing he’s repeating is using a service layer to access data asynchronously.  His advice right now is to group data requests at the top of a user request, do them asynchronously, and then use the data in the rendering [...]

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