MySQL University - Boosting performance with partitions

Mark your calendars: A MySQL University session about Boosting performance with MySQL 5.1 will take place on Thursday, June 4th at 13:00 UTC ( 8am CDT (Central) / 9am EDT (Eastern) / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET / 17:00 MDT (Moscow) / 18:30 IST (India)) The session will be conducted through DimDim, a system that allows you to follow the audio and visuals of a presentation from your browser, without any additional settings.

Attendance is free. Please follow the instructions given in the MySQL University main page.

MySQL Campus Tour - South California

The MySQL Campus Tour got reinforcements. Dups is not alone anymore. He is being joined by Colin and Farhan. Sheeri and yours truly are in Los Angeles, just about to travel to San Luis Obispo, where we will be guests of Cal Poly. The lecture is scheduled for tomorrow, April 14th, at 11am. The address is 1 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401. Pizza will be provided! Here's a reminder of the events to come. Again, if you are in the area, come along! Attendance is free, and if you want to participate actively, you will be very welcome!

North California
13-Apr-2009	Univ. of San Francisco
15-Apr-2009	Univ. of California, Berkley
16-Apr-2009	San Jose State University
16-Apr-2009	Stanford University, Palo Alto
17-Apr-2009	Univ. of California, Davis
South California
14-Apr-2009	Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
15-Apr-2009	UCLA, Los Angeles
15-Apr-2009	Univ. of California, Irvine
16-Apr-2009	USC, Los Angeles
17-Apr-2009	MySQL Meetup Los Angeles

MySQL University - Quick and easy testing with MySQL Sandbox

As announced by Stefan Hinz, our tireless documentation leader, we are using a new system for MySQL University. With DimDim, we can have more fluid and interactive presentations. Unlike the previous homegrown system, you don't need to download the slides, which will be shown to you by the presenter. There is no sound delay, and attendees can interact with the presentation by (integrated) chat and by graphical tools.

Today, October 30, 2008, at 15:00 CET, I will present a session on Quick and easy testing with MySQL Sandbox.
There may be some compatibility problems, depending on your browser and OS of choice. So, please join the presentation a few minutes earlier.
The session will be open at 14:45 CET [Rome] (13:45 UTC [London], 09:45 EDT [New York]).

Speaking at Sun Tech Day in Naples

MySQL acquisition by Sun is having immediate effects on my work. While so far I have been concentrating on international community, neglecting my home country, mostly because of lack of an office in Italy, I will now have more chances to attend to the community near me.
My first occasion to work under Sun's flag will be at the Sun Tech day in Naples.
The Tech days are events where some experienced Sun technologists show how things work to an interested and skilled audience (an university is a very good place for this). The attendees have a chance to see the action and to have the experts at their disposal to ask questions and discuss the trends.
This event was already scheduled when the acquisition was announced. So this time I will sneak in with a short participation. There will be more such events, where MySQL will have a more prominent role. Stay tuned.

MySQL University - Introducing Lua for Proxy scripting

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, December 13th at 15:00 CET (14:00 UTC, 09:00 EDT, 06:00 PST) I will host a session of MySQL University, on the topic of Introducing Lua for MySQL Proxy scripting.

For those who missed the previous announcements, MySQL University is a series of online expert lessons that you can join for free and attend from the comfort of your home or office. The slides are provided in either PDF of wiki pages, the audio is an ogg stream, and you can interact with the lecturer via IRC.
If you have heard of MySQL Proxy but haven't got the time of getting involved with it yet, this session is for you. If you were interested but you thought that another scripting language would be too difficult, give this session a chance. Enroll now!