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This dolphin set Free….

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Today is my last day working for MySQL… These are 8 words that I never imagined I would have to say or write when I accepted the position almost two years ago. I have been told that MySQL the product and MySQL the web properties will live on, however I’m not sure in what form or fashion. The last ~2 years have been some of the most wonderful, exciting, frustrating and fulfilling of my entire life. I am extremely grateful to everyone in the organization for allowing me to insert my wacky sense of humor daily and let my creativity blossom.

I am not sure what the future holds, but I can be sure that my experiences within MySQL I am prepared for anything that may come my way. I wish the best for everyone left standing and hope they can keep pushing the Open Source mantra and keep some sense of what it means to be a MySQL Dolphin alive in this new world.

-Big A

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Tags: Dolphin, MySQL, Open Source

Update

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

It always amazes me how busy someone can become and where blogging falls in the list of Priorities. Obviously it’s pretty low and I’m trying to remedy that as best as possible. There are a Ton of things going on right now, one of which I’m legally not allowed to discuss in the blogsphere (read my profile, look at my employer and you’ll see what I’m referring to). I have a big project for MySQL I’m in the middle of, still need to keep it under wraps but I hope you’ll enjoy the outcome as much as I am creating it. Personally, I’ve been trying to play more golf (doing pretty well at that), am attempting to do P90X, at this point I’m only doing certain workouts 1-2 times per week, I need to ride my bike some more…. can never get too much exercise I think. Finally the wife and I should have some big news pretty soon, and unfortunately it’s not kids, Yet!

Regarding Wordpress Theming, I’ve had to place this on the back burner for a bit, until I get some more free-time to focus on creating some themes, however it is still high on my list of things to get done.

For the near future I’m going to try and blog about some of the technical & personal stuff I’ve been doing (Short Blog Post on Ubuntu & VMWare Fusion coming shortly) and make an effort to blog at least 1 a week… I’m sorry to say that Twitter has started to consume some of my blogging cycles, guess I should find a way to incorporate both. Thanks,

-Big A

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Tags: MySQL, Personal, Time Management, Work

MySQL Campus Tour – Colorado

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Dups on Rails

Mark your calendars… April 8th & 9th Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana from the MySQL Community team will be at CU & CSU talking about MySQL. These Meetups should be a REALLY good time, there might even be free food! Besides that banners ROCKS! (insert shameless self promotion)

-Big A

UPDATE: 04/06/09 (9:37am MST) – I just spoke to Dups who is in Ames IA and should be in the Denver Area in a couple of days. You can read Dups’ most recent blog post here : http://blogs.sun.com/dups/entry/13_days_to_the_uc

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Tags: Colorado State University, Dups, Meetup, MySQL, University of Colorado

New Milestone – 7 Million!

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Just a few hours ago www.mysql.com surpassed 7 Million monthly vists, I don’t have a final number since we still have a fews hours to go. I’m so excited about this, our team works extremely hard to deliver a solid web presence and the world is taking notice of our products. There are a lot of rumors and discussions about Open Source software rising to the challenge in the current economic climate and I think this is a clear sign that people & businesses are looking for alternatives. Congrats to the entire MySQL family!

: http://www.mysql.com

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Tags: Business, Government, MySQL, Open Source, Web Visits

Font Me? Font You!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

I’ve been working on a site ‘re-alignment’ for www.mysql.com and in my travels for ideas and inspiration I came across a few resources for ‘font replacement’. Basically this is where you specify in your CSS a font that more than likely the user doesn’t have installed by default. In the code you provide the URL where the font is located and the browser downloads the font and swaps out the old boring type face for the shiny new font.

I’m in the process of trying to get this working here using the Droid-Sans font, which is the nice clean font used in Android. You can find a list of open type-faces used by web designers HERE.

Basically the code works like this:

@font-face {
    font-family: "Robson Celtic";
    src: url("http://site/fonts/rob-celt");
}

This should work for both CSS2 and CSS3 configurations, however I haven’t tested either… I’m hoping to have this working here soon.

More information can be found here:

-Big A

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Tags: @font-face, Android, CSS3, MySQL

My Artwork in the Real World!

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Last week was the one year anniversary of the MySQL Acquisition by Sun Microsystems, so our Community team is running a ‘5 Days of MySQL & Sun’ promotion, where yours truly created some nifty Banner artwork. Everyday is a different theme… I found these kickass ‘Robot’ illustrations on iStockphoto that worked really well with what we’re doing.

MySQL & Sun - DTrace Banner

You can see the promo’s here: http://dev.mysql.com

Also Dups’ (from the Community team) has a much better blog post explaining the promotion HERE

I admit that there is nothing above and beyone in the banners but, hey! They look pretty sweet…

-Big A

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Tags: Artwork, Banner, MySQL, Robots, Sun Microsystems

Wordpress 2.7 – Pre Upgrade

Friday, December 12th, 2008

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Wordpress 2.7 (self-hosted) has been released. Which is a good thing, although I wished they would have done this about a week ago. I’m working on a couple install for the MySQL Replication & Backup and spent a ton of time getting 2.6.5 up and running. 2.7 has a bunch of interface features that would make managing a medium-high traffic Blog a little easier. So I’m getting ready to do the Automatic upgrade via the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, which BTW isn’t needed any longer in 2.7… Hopefully the upgrade goes well and my Template doean’t freak out. Wish Me Luck!

-Big A

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Tags: Backup, MySQL, Replication, Upgrade, Wordpress

MySQL 5.1 GA!

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

www.mysql.com

So the original title to this post was going to be: ‘SVN – The BANE of my existence…‘ however upgrading our SVN Server to 1.5.4 (Latest Release) has proven to be well worth the time and made the Launch a piece of cake!

I guess I need to let you know that about 6 months ago I started my new Gig as a Web Developer for MySQL (www.mysql.com), which is now owned by my former employer Sun Microsystems. This is the greatest job I’ve EVER had! I work remotely mainly from home, but as long as I have an internet connection I’m golden… My team is made up of some of the Smartest, Creative & Funniest people I’ve ever known. Anywho…

So a couple weeks before the launch I was trying to sync my 5.1 branch with our main MySQL repo and had ALL KINDS of issues… Conflicts were coming out of the unkonwns, changes I wanted to keep were overwritten… it was a mess. Then, we were able to convince our Sys Admin to upgrade to the new SVN 1.5.4 Server and reload our repos. OMG! I Synced my local branch copy and only recieved 12 conflicts… most were images that were updated recently. Anyway, I’m a HUGE fan of the new SVN version especially with the new Merge tracking… this way you don’t have to specify which versions you want to merge… Very Easy…

So Needless to say the the launch was a Success! Which is always a good thing… So MySQL 5.1 is now live, you can download it HERE. And yes we’re using 5.1 on the webiste.

-BigA

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Tags: Database, Download, MySQL, SVN

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This dolphin set Free….

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MySQL Campus Tour – Colorado

New Milestone – 7 Million!

Font Me? Font You!

My Artwork in the Real World!

Wordpress 2.7 – Pre Upgrade

MySQL 5.1 GA!