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Live from the MySQL Users Conference

Posted by Jorge Bernal April 25, 2007

As some of you may now, I’ve been on the Bay Area for 10 days now, and I’m getting used to this. I took part on an Advanced Bootcamp last week to be able to deliver some new MySQL courses at Warp

I don’t have much pictures from the conference (I actually have a lot, but most of them are blurry or with bad lighting), but here’s a little sample from my last week.

MySQL Instructors at the Bootcamp

Mårten Mickos (CEO of MySQL) and Guy Kawasaki (VC and blogger) on stage at the opening Keynote

[QOTD] SHM vs. Pipes

Posted by Jorge Bernal April 19, 2007

Heard today in a MySQL course

What are the differences between shared memory and NT pipes on Windows?

Slow and slower

It seems quite silly written here, but it’s been a funny moment.

Ego-post

Posted by Jorge Bernal April 18, 2007

Being well positioned in a search engine Google might be the key if we’re talking about businesses. When we are talking about a personal blog like this, with no direct revenue related to visits, I can’t find more benefits than the confort of being able to told people to directly google my name instead of giving them the whole address.

But today I noticed some black spots on my Google search (Jorge Bernal). First, it seems to be an actor called like me, and a Bernal familiy which is not mine.

But the thing that keeps me worried is the Jorge Bernal mugshot. Anyone who knows me can realize that the guy in that photo is not me, but still. I was really nervous last Sunday when I was at the customs office in Minneapolis Airport, knowing that there was a murderer in the US with my same name.

To whom may it concern: I do not kill people. My only killings are -9, if you know what I mean

I love cool companies

Posted by Jorge Bernal April 18, 2007

Well, actually what I love is that small embedded jokes that bring that smile at the end of the day, like the Qt Blog, which has this pearl as slogan:

The blog where it’s OK to feed the Trolls

For those of you who need some context, the company behind Qt is called trolltech. If you still don’t get it try searching for don’t feed the troll

Wet google maps

Posted by Jorge Bernal April 17, 2007

Coincidence? No, serendipity. Last week I was on the bus going back home. This usually takes half an hour so I don’t have much to do except listen to music and think in absurd things like this.

I wondered what would happen if you ask google maps for directions from one place to another if there’s no road between those two. Hector got the answer today. Say you want to go from the new Warp HQ to the MySQL HQ (BTW, I’ve been there today and the sakila dolphin plush is awesome). No problem at all, google knows the way

So, swim across the Atlantic Ocean, cool! But there’s more, if you look at the Drive details it’ll give you estimates of how much will take you to get there.

After some experiments shortening the path, let’s say the distance is about 5500 km and Google says it’ll take you 29 days to get there. If you do the math you’ll find that you’ll need to swim at an average of almost 8 km/h (that’s 5mph) for almost a month (without any stops, and presumably no food). So, unless you are David Meca on tons of steroids you won’t make it. Just for reference, when this world record swimmer crossed the strait of Gibraltar, he did an average of 0.5 km/h for 2.5 hours.

Update: while reading another post on boingboing about the same topic, I got the insight for the old USENET acronym YMMV: your mileage may vary.

[QOTD] Regular expressions

Posted by Jorge Bernal April 11, 2007

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems

Jamie Zawinski

[via: Stop Rolling Your Own CSV Parser!]

Planet apologies

Posted by Jorge Bernal April 10, 2007

Note: This is a dedicated post to Planet Warp readers

You might have noticed the sudden appearance of some posts in the planet feed. Quique told me this morning that his posts weren’t appearing on the planet, so I checked it and found that planet was crashing with something like DBNOTFOUND error (sorry I can’t remember the exact string). The issue was fixed by removing the cache directory and running planet.py again.

After that I discovered some really funny posts…